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Jury Issues Mixed Verdict in Michael Baisden’s Copyright Infringement Case

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A jury in Houston Federal Court recently reached a verdict in the copyright lawsuit filed by nationally syndicated radio and TV personality Michael Baisden. The mixed verdict allows for the return of Baisden’s copyrighted rights and allows the best-selling author to proceed with upcoming movie and television projects. In the lawsuit, Baisden claimed damages from […]
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Rahm Emanuel Wins: Now What?

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Maze Jackson – It was over before you knew it, and Rahm Emanuel had shocked and awed his way to becoming the mayor of our great city. Pundits and political junkies alike have analyzed what happened, why it happened, and what does this mean for politics, particularly in the African-American community. Newspaper headlines have declared […]
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Giant Step for Esperanza Spalding and the Grammy Awards

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The 53rd Grammy Awards has given me new-found faith in humankind. The selection of musical jazz artist Esperanza Spalding as the Grammy Award winner for Best New Artist was a weighty aversion from human indecency and a strong score for human decency. In the past, I’ve been an out-spoken critic of the Grammy Awards and […]
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A Green Future for Our Gulf: Be part of the emerging Green Economy

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NEW ORLEANS – If you are a young person impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the Gulfsouth Youth Biodiesel Project (GYBP) may be the program for you. The GYBP is a youth-led social enterprise focusing on the production and sale of biodiesel fuel as a means of educating and developing leadership and social entrepreneurship […]
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Deep Enough, Far Enough or Just Too Much?

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By Julianne Malveaux – President Barack Obama has proposed a 2012-2013 budget that is, at best, politically pragmatic. Responding to the Republican sway in congress, he has decided to impose a set of his own cuts, anticipating those his opponents might offer. Their response is predictable. The Obama cuts are not deep enough; they do […]
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Chuck Hobbs

Race and Absent Black Fathers—Twin Roots of Crime and Punishment

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By Chuck Hobbs, Esq. – Across America, there is a movement gaining momentum that would ease the overcrowding in prisons and local jails that are filled overwhelmingly by black men. In 2003, the United States Justice Department issued a report based upon the 2000 Census that noted that 10.4 percent of the black male population […]
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Entertainment

Gospel Legend Vanessa Bell Armstrong Signs with Music World Gospel

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Houston, TX – Multiple GRAMMY® Award nominee and Stellar Award winner Vanessa Bell Armstrong today signed an exclusive recording and co-management agreement with Music World Gospel. Armstrong will be co-managed by Clive Ennis of CAnthony Entertainment. “It has been a wonderful journey,” said Vanessa Bell Armstrong. “I am so happy to have a new home […]
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Politics is Like Crack Cocaine

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By Lucius Gantt (The Gantt Report) – Politics is like crack cocaine. Being elected one time is too much for some politicians and for others getting reelected ten times is not enough! You can know the finest woman, very respectable, very concerned, loyal and monogamous. Give her some crack and her figure becomes hideous, her […]
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Obama Gives Props to Romney on Health Care

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(CNN) – In a moment that Mitt Romney’s future GOP opponents couldn’t have scripted better themselves, President Obama Monday issued a full-throated embrace of the former Massachusetts governor’s stance on health care. “I know that many of you have asked for flexibility for your states under this law,” Obama said during a speech to a […]
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