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From TheGrio.com: African-American leaders denounced TV and radio pundit Glenn Beck’s Tea Party rally next month that will occur on the same date and at the same spot where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech nearly 50 years ago.

From Newsnet5.com When Vaneisha Robinson bought a diamond studded pendant in the shape of LeBron James’ number 23 jersey at a yard sale four years ago, she thought it was costume jewelry.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is endorsing the white incumbent for Congress in a majority black district in west Tennessee.

From WWD.com: THE COVER DECISION: GQ has scored LeBron “The Decision” James for its September cover. Sources said the cover shoot had been in the works for weeks before his uberhyped — and much ridiculed — announcement was revealed on ESPN on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the magazine said it never discusses upcoming issues.

From NYDailyNews.com: Step aside Dear Abby, a new advice guru has arrived and his name is The Old Spice Guy.

Academy Award-winning thespian comedienne Whoopi Goldberg will unite with the West End production in London of Sister Act: the Musical this August.

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey‘s quarter-century run on daytime TV may be accompanied by a TV film dramatizing her life.

From NYDailyNews.com: Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry earned their New York baseball stripes with the Mets, but both fallen stars remembered George Steinbrenner for resuscitating their careers and for standing by them throughout their litany of off-the-field troubles.

FROM BLACKVOICES.COM GLAAD, the Gay-Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has gone hard against ABC and ‘The View’ about recent comments made by host Sherri Shepherd and guest hostDL Hughley. On the show, which aired June 22, Shepherd and Hughley linked the high rate of HIV among straight women in the black community to black men being on […]

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship in court.