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Demi Lovato Books Multi-Episode Glee Arc
By Liz Raftery Demi Lovato is heading to Glee for Season 5. The X Factor judge is close to finalizing a deal to join the Fox series for a “significant arc,” TVLine reports. She’ll play Dani, a struggling artist friend of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Lambert, Demi Lovato, entertainment, Glee, Lea Michele, Naya Rivera, New York City, television, X-Factor
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How Black Churches Helped Fuel ‘The Butler’s’ Big Weekend
By C. Molly Smith The Weinstein Co. appealed heavily to the black faith-based community in promoting Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a strategy that appears to be paying off. Over the weekend, Daniels’ historical drama debuted to a stellar $25 million, … Continue reading
Beyond Timbaland: the future stars of experimental R&B
By Paul Lester “In the most direct way, we’re trying to be post-Timbaland,” says Kelela Mizanekristos, one of several new female artists operating in the realm of what could be termed experimental R&B. “We’re taking that sound and pushing it. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaliyah, Autre Ne Veut, Brandy, Cassie, Ciara, Drake, experimental R&B, Frank Ocean, Jessy Lanza, Jhene Aiko, Kelela, Kid A, Miguel, music, Neptunes, Phlo Finister, r&b, Rihanna, Rodney Jerkins, SZA, The Dream, The Weeknd, Timbaland
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MSNBC Moves Ed Schultz Back to Weeknights
By Marisa Guthrie Ed Schultz will move back to weekdays in the 5 p.m. slot beginning Aug. 26, the network is set to announce on Monday. The move comes less than five months after The Ed Show moved from 8 p.m. … Continue reading
‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Star Lee Thompson Young Found Dead
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Tagged Disney Channel, enetrtainment, Lee Thompson Young, Rizzoli & Isles, suicide, television, TNT, Warner Bros
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How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
By Clive Thompson Joseph Bonicioli mostly uses the same internet you and I do. He pays a service provider a monthly fee to get him online. But to talk to his friends and neighbors in Athens, Greece, hes also got something much … Continue reading
How Schools Have Become Dead Zones of the Imagination
By Henry A. Giroux “Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility … Continue reading
11 facts about America’s prison population
By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas Here’s a bit of context for Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to encourage federal prosecutors to charge low-level drug offenders with less severe crimes (thanks to Dylan Matthews and Brad Plumer for doing a … Continue reading
Sequestration Kicks More Than 57,000 Children Out Of Head Start
By Bryce Covert Head Start programs will eliminate services for 57,265 children in the coming school year thanks to sequestration’s automatic, across-the-board spending cuts, according to new government data collected from individual programs. California, Texas, and New York will cut the … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic term, California, children, education, Head Start Program, New York, politics, Puerto Rico, Sequestration, Texas
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By Brenda Howard A year and a half ago, a news story exploded out of Sanford, Fla. George Zimmerman, an armed, 28-year-old man of mixed white and Hispanic ancestry, followed and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American. The tragic … Continue reading →