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11 Year Old Broadway “Lion King” Star Shannon Tavarez Dies From Leukemia…

November 2, 2010

11 year-old Broadway star of the Lion King, Shannon Tavarez has lost her fight against a rare form of leukemia Monday,succumbing to a blood clot in her brain. Katharina Harf, co-founder of the bone marrow donor center DKMS confirmed the news that the 11-year-old succumbed to her illness despite receiving groundbreaking treatment.(Source) Corbin Bleu,Alicia Keys, […]

African-American Superstar Actress And Singer Lena Horne Dies At 92…

May 10, 2010

LENA HORNE (Jun. 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was a ground-breaking singer, actress, and civil rights activist. In 1942, she became the first African-American performer to be put under contract by a major studio. Horne died on Sunday,Mothers Day May 9, at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. Her son Kevin Buckley […]

FIU Running Back Kendall Berry,22, Murdered on Campus

March 26, 2010

Kendall Berry, was stabbed late Thursday night, after Miami-Dade police said the 22-year-old junior from Haines City, Fla., was involved in an argument with another man outside the front doors of the school’s student recreation center – one of the spots where the football team trains.(SOURCE) There were many witnesses, and the Miami-Dade police forced is […]

Man Is Charged in UConn Player Jasper Howard Murder

October 27, 2009

BREAKING NEWS-The wire services are reporting that arrest have been made in the stabbing death of UConn football star Jasper Howard at a school sponsored dance, after a Homecoming victory. A 21-year-old man  was charged with murder Monday,  Josh Lomax III also faces a charge of conspiracy to commit assault. Lomax was in jail, with bail […]

Jessica Simpson Upset Over Fox TV Fat Cartoon Insult Aimed at Her

October 15, 2009

[picapp src=”2/9/7/b/QVC_Presents_FFANY_eb16.jpg?adImageId=5712466&imageId=6802489″ width=”380″ height=”543″ /] For the second time this week, a young white women is being vilified in the media because she has put on a couple healthy, and natural pounds. I have always been confused by this type of harassment , because I do not know any real man who is actually attracted to a thin […]