The first night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver will be highlighted by the wife of the party’s presumptive nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.
It was announced this week that Michelle Obama will speak on Aug. 25, paving the way for the convention’s other headline speakers - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday, Obama’s vice [...]

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Finally, someone is speaking on behalf of Lauryn Hill.
Hill, the former front-woman of the chart-topping, groundbreaking hip-hop trio, The Fugees, did not go off on the deep end, as many believed — even after a series of odd appearances, most notably her 2001 ‘Unplugged’ album (which caused ‘Los Angeles Times’ music critic to refer to [...]

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Darren “Bo” Taylor, a former member of the Crips who brokered a truce between warring inner-city gangs after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has died. He was 46.
Taylor died Monday of cancer in San Diego, his sister, Adrienne Galloway, said Wednesday.
He was a member of the Crips gang as a teenager but became a gang [...]

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Michael Phelps continued his gold rush Wednesday, winning two more gold medals and smashing two world records.
The wins – his 10th and 11th career golds – make him with winningest Olympian in history. As the announcer at the National Aquatics Center declared, that makes him “arguably the greatest Olympian of all time.” (The comment earned [...]

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On the heels of infidelity accusations leveled by actress LisaRaye against her husband, Turks & Caicos Premier Michael Misick, he announced late Tuesday that their marriage is over and done.
“I am announcing that I am separated from LisaRaye McCoy-Misick,” Premier Misick said in a statement emailed to EUR from his PR rep, Judy Smith. [...]

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“The entire cast and I are still somewhat in shock about the whole thing,” she told EUR’s Lee Bailey Tuesday. “It hasn’t quite set in for me that he’s not with us anymore. But his spirit lives on through us, through the show and all of his work.”
The 18-year-old actress said [...]

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Just two years after Lil’ Kim was released from prison, negative criminal activity still looms over the pint-size Grammy Award winning rapper.
On Sunday night, the former Junior M.A.F.I.A. front-woman celebrated her 34th birthday at the New York City nightclub, Spotlight Live, with the likes of LisaRaye McCoy Misick and Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott.
Later, it was discovered [...]

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