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The always flawless Halle Berry graces the cover of the new issue of Jet magazine that hits newsstands on January 3,2011. Halle discusses aging, her role in “Frankie and Alice,” which won her a Golden Globe nomination, and “For Colored Girls.” The new issue also features an interview with the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. […]

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 recent study from Right Management showed that 84% of U.S. workers plan to quit their jobs and seek new employment in 2011. If you’d like a better job in the New Year, and have gotten tired of working the typical 9 to 5 gig, you may be on the lookout for work-from-home opportunities or other […]

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*The Sam Cooke Tribute Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the legacy and music of the late gospel and soul singer, Sam Cooke, plans to honor the legendary singer during the weekend of what would have been his 80th birthday in Los Angeles the weekend of January 20-23, 2011. Event organizer, Richard Nichols, […]

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Trace Adkins will headline the list of performers scheduled to appear at next month’s GMA Gospel Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The Gospel Music Association will induct Johnny Cash, DeGarmo & Key, the Golden Gate Quartet and Bill “Hoss” Allen” into the Hall of Fame on Jan. 24. Also slated to perform that night are […]

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HONOLULU — President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center.

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Starting out a new year, some of us need all the luck and prosperity we can get! So the following are recipes for popular (and some say lucky and prosperous) New Year’s dishes, like black-eyed peas, greens, and corn bread. (Pictured above, Chef Sylvia, of Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem) The following can be modified for […]

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BMI will honor Gospel Greats Commissioned and Pastor Shirley Caesar at the organization’s 12th Annual Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards Luncheon. The event is slated for Friday, January 14, 2011, the day before the 26th Annual Stellar Awards. Staged at Rocketown (601 4th Avenue South) in Nashville, the invitation-only celebration will welcome gospel music’s premier […]

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As the year 2010 winds down to an end, no one can say it was a dull year for news 10. Mel Gibson’s abusive racist rant towards girlfriend caught on tape On July 9, Hollywood gossip website radaronline.com released the first of a series of audio tapes of actor Mel Gibson allegedly yelling and threatening […]

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Although New Year’s Eve church services were started in the mid-1700s by John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, the event, known as Watch Night, occupies a special place in black communities across America. In 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln announced that the Emancipation Proclamation would take effect Jan. 1, freeing all slaves in Confederate […]

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As we near the end of 2010, we pay tribute to individuals who touched our lives and made a difference in the world. R.I.P.

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Jada Pinkett Smith lost her grandmother earlier this week, and she turned to Facebook to share her feelings on death … and life. Read the letter that was posted on her Facebook page below. Shirley H. Pinkett died last night. She is my grandmother. She was 79. If there is one thing I have learned […]

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  No matter what your plans are for New Year’s Eve, whether it’s a quiet night at home or one out partying downtown, make sure to secure your car and park it in a safe place. More cars are stolen on New Year’s Day than any other day of the year, according to USA Today. […]