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Wyclef Jean posted this photo on his Twitter account of him shaking hands with Haiti’s President Rene Preval hours after their Aug. 29 meeting Wyclef Jean met with Haitian President Rene Preval for more than two hours on Thursday, touching off a new round of speculation as to whether the singer will be allowed to […]

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President Obama earned his Martha’s Vineyard vacation as far as Democratic money moguls are concerned, hauling in $4 million for his party’s war chests this week alone.

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Y ‘Anna Crawley, winner of BET’s Sunday Best second season, will release her debut album, “The Promise”, on August 24th via Imago Dei Music Group. “The Promise” was produced by Busta and Shavoni, Ryan Sims, “Big Jim” Wright, and the production team of PAJAM, which was recorded at the Embassy Row Recording Studio in Los […]

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Bishop T.D. Jakes 2010 ManPower conference will be held  August 26-28th, 2010 in Fort Worth, Texas. This year’s theme for the three-day conference is Mended. The call is for men to “gather the fragments of their lives that have been disrupted by the worries of this world”. Speakers on tap are: Bishop T.D. Jakes-founder of […]

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Wyclef Jean’s name will reportedly be gone from November’s ballot in Haiti’s presidential election. The Grammy-winning Fugees star did not satisfy legal requirements to run in the Nov. 28 election, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a member of the provisional electoral council. “He is not on the list as I speak,” the council official told Reuters, […]

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce Friday that Israel and the Palestinians will return to direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months, delivering the Obama administration a small victory in its protracted effort to revive the Middle East peace process, two officials briefed on the situation said Thursday evening. […]

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A trustee of a Nelson Mandela charity said he will leave the organization after being caught up in a scandal involving a supermodel, a warlord and rough diamonds.

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In a breakthrough for 9/11 first responders, President Obama ended his silence on the Zadroga Bill on Wednesday and backed the uphill drive to get it through Congress.

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  A bull leapt and jumped into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring and ran amok, charging and trampling spectators and leaving 40 people injured, regional officials said Thursday.

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Ex-Fugees singer Wyclef Jean says that death threats “come with the territory” and that he won’t be put off from trying to stand as president of Haiti.

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Marvin Sapp’s infectious “Best In Me” is the #1 song at Gospel radio for the 23rd consecutive week.  “Best In Me” is the first single from Sapp’s latest CD  HERE I AM, which has been #1 on Billboard’s Gospel Albums sales chart for 22 weeks. HERE I AM, Sapp’s 8th CD, was released this past […]

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Robin Roberts, Stevie Wonder, Queen Latifah and Aaron Neville are among the celebrities who will take part in a second “Stand Up to Cancer” telethon next month. Along with Roberts, a breast cancer survivor, the commercial-free special will also feature appearances by other actors, athletes and musicians who have faced the disease, including Maura Tierney, […]