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People Magazine has put Beyonce at the top of its “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” list, but the singer is attributing the honor to the inner beauty that comes with having a child. “I feel more beautiful than I’ve ever felt because I’ve given birth,” she says in her cover story. “I have never felt so […]

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Jennifer Hudson shut her eyes tight Tuesday, holding still on a spectators’ bench, as a police officer at the trial of the man accused of killing three members of the Oscar winner’s family described coming across bloodied bodies at the Chicago home where Hudson grew up. Before prosecutors projected dozens of photographs of her mother […]

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E! News has obtained the graphic autopsy results on “Soul Train” founder Don Cornelius, who died in February at the age of 75. The documents reaffirm the coroner’s ruling issued then: the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head which entered through the right temple. The autopsy report states that Cornelius […]

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Music legend and “Godfather of Go Go,” Chuck Brown has been hospitalized. The 75-year-old performer was taken to a Washington, D.C. area hospital for “joint pain and inflammation that has prevented him from performing.” He was scheduled to go on stage Saturday at the Howard Theater in D.C., but the appearance has been postponed until […]

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Shaw University had double cause for celebration this spring. One year after a tornado swept through Raleigh, N.C. and hit the campus, damaging 27 buildings and six buildings destroying part or all of the roofs on six buildings, the university held a special “Open House” on the steps of the Willie E. Gary Student Center […]

organized by Chairman Roslyn M. Brock, the NAACP has sponsored its annual Leadership 500 Summit that promotes a civic agenda for black professionals and “emerging leaders” in the modern-day civil rights movement. “This year’s Leadership 500 Summit is particularly important as the political campaign season begins; the baton of leadership is passing to the next […]

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The website that George Zimmerman set up to help raise money for his legal defense in Trayvon Martin’s shooting has been disabled. The website http://www.therealgeorgezimmerman was no longer functioning as of Tuesday. It was created almost two weeks ago by Zimmerman’s family to thank his supporters and to receive donations from anyone who wanted to […]

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Police and California child welfare officials who visited Nadya Suleman’s home after someone claimed that her 14 children were living in squalor say they did not find evidence that the children are in any danger. La Habra police Sgt. Daniel Barnes says officers and Orange County Department of Family and Children’s Services officials examined Suleman’s […]

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The teenager who authorities said was beaten in a neighborhood watch case in Baltimore that drew comparisons with the Trayvon Martin shooting refused to testify from the witness stand on Wednesday, prompting the judge ultimately to excuse him. It’s not yet clear how the loss of the key witness will affect the prosecution’s case. Brothers […]

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A Detroit judge says the verdict is in: He’s proud of his physique and has no reason to be ashamed of sending a shirtless photo of himself to women, including at least one court employee. A TV station confronted 55-year-old Wayne County Judge Wade McCree this week after the husband of a court employee said […]

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Two former and two current Transportation Security Administration employees have been arrested on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges for allowing large amounts of cocaine and other drugs to pass through X-ray machines at security checkpoints in exchange for cash, authorities said. A 22-count indictment unsealed Wednesday outlined five incidents where the employees took payments […]

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Sen. Marco Rubio outlined his vision Wednesday of a more muscular American foreign policy, the latest salvo in his effort to elevate his profile as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins his search for a running mate. The Florida Republican’s half-hour speech at the centrist Brookings Institution came four weeks after he endorsed Romney and […]