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Thanks to Donald Trump, Jennifer Hudson and several of her relatives have been staying at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago free of charge following the murders of her mother, brother and nephew.
“She’s a great girl. And we’re protecting them well,” Trump told People.com at a benefit honoring Australia director Baz Luhrman at [...]

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In just three years, R&B singer Keyshia Cole has scored two platinum albums, three No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and a top-rated reality show on BET.
All these professional achievements belie the pain-filled personal saga that first introduced Cole to the spotlight. Many of her biggest hits — “I Should Have Cheated,” [...]

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The Queen of Soul has just become the Queen of Rock in a new poll of the rock era’s 100 greatest singers, conducted by Rolling Stone magazine and due on newsstands Friday with four different covers.
Aretha Franklin, 66, tops a list that includes Ray Charles at No. 2, Elvis Presley at No. 3, Sam [...]

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The Staten Island African-American Political Association will host a town hall-style meeting in the wake of an election night beating of a black Muslim teenager by a group of white men, an attack that police confirmed is being treated as a hate crime.
Ali Kamara, 17, says he was beaten and hit with a baseball [...]

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When Bill Cosby entered the polling booth in his neighborhood last week, he carried with him photographs of his late parents and Jimmy, the kid brother who died in childhood.
“I pulled out the pictures, pulled the curtain shut. And I said, `You guys are gonna vote.’ And they did, on one piece of paper,” Cosby [...]

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Whoopi Goldberg, a co-host on ABC’s “The View,” has signed a development deal with Discovery Emerging Networks to develop shows for Investigation Discovery and Science Channel with partner Tom Leonardis.
According to Variety, the programming will be presented under her production shingle Whoop Inc. The pact includes a proviso that at least one of Goldberg [...]

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The Associated Press reports of a new study that suggests the lives of nearly 8,000 black Americans could be saved each year if doctors could figure out a way to bring their average blood pressure down to the average level of whites.
The gap between the races in controlling blood pressure is well-known, but the [...]

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The 40th NAACP Image Awards will broadcast live from Los Angeles’ historic Shrine Auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 12 (8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET/PT) on Fox.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Former Vice President Al Gore and Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai will be awarded the NAACP Chairman’s Award during the special. The Chairman’s Award, chosen by [...]

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Atlanta’s CBS46.com is reporting that the son-in-law of the late singer James Brown was shot to death Wednesday night in the garage of his Buckhead home. Relatives of Darren “Chip” Lumar told the news station they believe the killing was a hit.
Investigators said the shooter was waiting for Lumar.
“When he drove up to park [...]

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