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When a store goes out of business, consumers are used to finding bargains at a “going out of business” sale. But that wasn’t the case when a chain of bridal shops went out of business last week. Spray painting expensive gowns “Priscilla’s of Boston,” a chain of 19 bridal shops across the country, was recently […]

Black women view themselves as especially self-confident and independent-minded-more so than Caucasian women. In a recent poll conducted by beauty mag Allure magazine, Black women rated themselves three times as likely as Caucasian women to rate themselves at the ‘hot’ end of the spectrum. Tell us something we don’t know! Black women have always viewed […]

“I’m just sayin’ you could do better…” How ironic… Last week we reported that “video vixen” and unabashed attention slore Dollicia Bryan was hittin’ the sheets AND the streets with Canadian emo-rapper Drizzy Drake. As we’ve also reported, the YMCMB MC has a Jones for Williams and her bountiful booty. If you remember his interview in […]

Photo: city-data.com/Cleveland Museum of Art CLEVELAND – Not all neighborhoods are created equal. One of the prettiest communities in the country is right here in Cleveland. Forbes Magazine just released a list of its 10 Most Beautiful Communities in the U.S., and University Circle made the cut. The magazine picked the circle for its wide […]

Image Entertainment will be releasing 50 Cent’s project All Things Fall Apart on DVD, February 14. In the film, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson plays a college running back with a fierce combination of blazing speed and stunning power. At the pinnacle of his college football career and gearing up to start a successful NFL one, life unexpectedly takes a […]

Chicago rapper/actor Common is the latest celebrity to join an all-star roster for this year’s BET Honors. The entertainer will be on hand for the fifth annual show, which will recognize the achievements of singers Stevie Wonder and Mariah Carey, film director Spike Lee, revered poet Maya Angelou, the Tuskegee Airmen, and inspirational coach and […]

Oprah’s twin?  What do you think? A Florida restaurant waitress says she looks so much like Oprah Winfrey that people actually come into her establishment and ask for Oprah.  You be the judge. tmz.com

NEW YORK  — Mob boss widow Victoria Gotti, singer Clay Aiken and IndyCar champ Michael Andretti are on tap for the next edition of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice.”

After nine years, mega-church Pastor T. D. Jakes of The Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas is opening up about how he handled the news of his then 14-year-old daughter’s pregnancy. Read: Shocking! See Why Riva Tims Is FORCED To Withdraw Law Suit ! “Shocked, crushed, emotionally devastated, and yet there was something down inside of […]

WASHINGTON — Doubling down on President Barack Obama’s bold recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the White House announced Wednesday that Obama would also use his recess powers to fill three vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency charged with enforcing labor law. The move […]

BOCA RATON, Fla. – A Boca Raton, Fla., baker is devastated after a birthday cake she made for LeBron James was rejected. Alethea Hickman of Passion For Pastry said she was approached by the managing partner of the Shelborne South Beach hotel over the weekend to make a last-minute cake for James’ 27th birthday. Hickman […]

What if 2012 produced no new wars and saw existing conflicts all wind down to a negotiated peace? That would take an aroused global public to push hard on both governments and the private sector (e.g., requiring the global defense industry and energy and natural resources companies’ full cooperation) to take effective measures to curb […]