NEW YORK — Though going out on tour means connecting with fans, it can also mean long hours, high stress, and sleepless nights. Janet Jackson says she’s looking forward to all of it as she prepares for her first tour in seven years.
“I love all of that, all of that pressure, I really [...]

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CANNES, France — Mike Tyson considers it a miracle that he lived to tell his tale. And he’s telling it — in graphic detail — in a new documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I lived a wild and extreme life,” the former heavyweight champion told reporters Saturday. “I used drugs. I had altercations with [...]

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Spike Lee launched a bitter attack on Clint Eastwood yesterday, condemning his failure to include a single African-American soldier in his films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.
The Oscar-nominated African-American director, one of the most influential figures in contemporary cinema, said that black soldiers were conspicuous by their absence from Flags [...]

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BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Democratic Party, walked out of a Boston hospital Wednesday morning, flashing a smile and patting his dogs Sunny and Splash, one day after learning his weekend seizure was caused by a cancerous brain tumor.
A square bandage atop the backside of [...]

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Legendary singer Tina Turner gave Beyoncé a wicked left hook and put her down for the count during a British interview yesterday. Tina told reporters that while Beyoncé is “elegant” she will never match her for raw talent and Bey will never be “rock n’ roll”.
Tina said:
“She was one of the ones that were sitting [...]

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R. Kelly arrives at the Cook County building in Chicago, Ill., for the first day of opening arguments for his child pornography trial Tuesday, May 20. The singer, who has pleaded not guilty, faces up to 15 years if convicted.
Prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of the child pornography trial in open court, [...]

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Willie Parker, who suffers from several health problems, only served about a quarter of his sentence for robbery with a deadly weapon before escaping in 1965. He was tracked down in February as part of a Maryland effort to clear outstanding warrants.
Parker, who has been living in North Carolina, was unexpectedly [...]

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Benjamin Todd Jealous

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Benjamin Todd Jealous served as President of the Rosenberg Foundation- a private independent institution that supports advocacy efforts to make significant improvements in the lives of California’s working families and recent immigrants. He was the fourth person to hold the position since the Foundation was founded in 1935.
Mr. Jealous was Director [...]

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Sen. Barack Obama has all but gained the Democratic nomination, (even Clinton supporters are calling it) and last week his wife, Michelle, hinted of what she’d do if she were to become first lady.
At a fund-raiser billed as a women’s “Power Lunch” for Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Obama suggested she would take on women’s and [...]

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