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We asked Comedian Shang, “Emmanuel Lewis or Gary Coleman?” Check out his answer below! http://media.kyte.tv/js/kyte.js Kyte.Embed.path=”http://media.kyte.tv”;Kyte.Embed.altpath=”http://www.kyte.tv”;window.kyteplayer=new Kyte.Player(“”,{appKey:”default”,width:420,height:685,p:”6453″,tbid:”22″});

viasource: google.com/images   Viasource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSjbtJHi_Q If you missed President Obama’s State Of The Union address last night, here it is in full! President Obama delivers some insightful and meaningful messages. A must watch!

Oprah’s big secret is out!! Turns out the daytime talk show host has a long lost sister. Oprah has a sister named Patricia — who was put up for adoption at a young age and bounced around foster homes until she was finally adopted at the age of 7. On Monday, Facebook and Twitter were […]

Last week we opened the voting for our Greatest Black Sitcom of All-Time Competition. Yesterday voting closed for round 1 and we’re down from 64 shows to 32. Based on the seeding of the editorial team we didn’t see any upset loses although we were surprised to see the short-lived 90’s sitcom “Thea” beat out […]

VIA: Hellobeautiful.com Today Oprah is scheduled to reveal a secret that she says “literally shook me to my core.” Fans all over are wondering just what Oprah will tell us. The daytime host teased the following in an recent promo: “I was given some news that literally shook me to my core. This time, I’m […]

New York –Cathie Black was greeted by a chorus of boos at Wednesday night’s Panel for Educational Policy meeting in Fort Greene. The loudest heckling was heard when Black mentioned her boss, Mayor Bloomberg, who was also booed on Monday during his Martin Luther King Day speech. The meeting’s chairman tried to quiet the jeering […]

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An educational standards agency said Tuesday that it has placed Atlanta Public Schools on probation and given the system nine months to make improvements or risk losing accreditation for its high schools. Losing that standing could diminish grant money and make it harder for graduates to get into college.

By Bill Fletcher Jr I just had my annual physical. Every December or January I make it a point to have one. Even when my healthcare provider, some years back, said that I did not need to come in yearly, I ignored them and visited annually. While I was awaiting my doctor I had an […]

MIAMI- Students in Miami, Florida are being taught in large lab rooms with computers and no teacher. Simply just a facilitator who observes. The New York Time reports: Naomi is one of over 7,000 students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools enrolled in a program in which core subjects are taken using computers in a classroom […]

VIA: TheGrio.com TheGrio.com, a division of NBC News, today announced the results of “TheGrio’s 2011 African-American Leadership Survey” in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  The web-enabled poll, designed by Princeton University professor Melissa Harris-Perry, was completed by a group of contemporary academics, artists and activists. As part of the survey, the assembled jury […]

Via: http://www.newsone.com SHREVEPORT, La.– When she turned 113, Mississippi Winn could still stand up on her own and never thought her age was a detriment to her life. The upbeat former domestic worker from Shreveport, known in the city as “Sweetie,” died Friday afternoon at Magnolia Manor Nursing Home, said Milton Carroll, an investigator with […]

What do you do when you think your spouse wants to leave you, your job doesn’t understand you and the bottle calls you? Do you just give up or do you make everyone else pay?