The challenge of  a green economy is the next American frontier. Can Obama live up to his words about new energy?

From TechCrunch.com: Expect Yahoo’s share price to jump tomorrow – Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007.

From theroot.com: The lingering tension between gays and lesbians and the African-American community over the passage of California's Proposition 8—banning same-sex marriage—isn't a laughing matter, but it is absurd. It has all the makings of a Tyler Perry movie starring the casts of <em>Big Love</em> and <em>The L Word.</em> <em>Diary of a Mad Black Mormon Lesbian Nun?</em> Now showing in California and coming soon to a theater near you.

Master P wants to show a new generation how to help hip-hop profit.

From theroot.com: Having already gone through my—now regretted—Obama tantrums in July (and on this Web site), I do not want to hear about anyone else's. Please try to get over yours as soon as possible. Click here for the full rant.

From HuffingtonPost.com: "Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has been offered the job of Health and Human Services secretary by President-elect Barack Obama and has accepted the job, according to a Democratic source close to Daschle," <em>Roll Call</em> <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/30285-1.html">reports</a>.

From Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com: Even before there has been a single Cabinet selection announced, I'm already weary from all the gossip and chatter about potential appointees, but, at least for me, the position of Attorney General is different.

Rapper, TI, is set to testify this Friday in a Cincinatti courtroom, in the murder case of his friend and assistant, Philant Johnson. 35-year-old Hosea Thomas is charged with killing Philant Johnson in May of 2006, during a fight after a TI performance in Cincinatti that spilled into the highway.

According to the New York Daily News, Cheetah Girl, Adrienne Bailon, intentionally leaked the racy pictures of her that circulated over the internet. These pictures also resulted in the Cheetah Girl’s being asked to not perform at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group’s first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

The group <a title="BP Group - Serious Black Issues" href="http://groups.blackplanet.com/seriousblackissues">Serious Black Issues</a> deals with the pressing concerns of poverty, teenage pregnancies, gun violence that affects our communities.  Check it out!