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  • First lady Michelle Obama speaks to high school students at Mary’s Center, a community health center in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington February 10, 2009. (For more pictures of the visit, click here.) Michelle Obama will be the second First Lady to be on the cover of Vogue Magazine! Enjoy WashPo’s breathtaking description of

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  • In Hot Topics today the convo of choice is about singers Chris Brown and Rihanna and Brown, 19, allegedly beating up his 20-year-old, R&B superstar girlfriend. I know nothing about these two characters other than I don’t care for Brown’s music and don’t see what’s remotely attractive about him (as he looks like he’s 12)

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  • Ray J., Brandy’s less talented, Z-list, porn star humping, soulless brother, has his own Flavor of Love/I Love New York/Rock-of-whatever-the-name-is-of-that-show-with-Bret-Michaels-and-the-80-year-old-cougar-groupies reality “dating” show. From what I can gather it’s about Ray J. and a bunch of extras left over from all the other reality shows they were rejected from. (Not pretty enough to open a

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  • TV producer/writer Mara Brock Akil and successful old coot/comic, Bill CosbyBoth “Girlfriends” and “The Game” creator, Mara Brock Akil and comedian, TV pioneer, resident “Old Man Who Doesn’t Care What YOU Think Anymore” Bill Cosby both gave their takes on how Barack Obama’s presidency would affect the number of African Americans on scripted television. Naturally,…

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  • All Work, No Play

    A ton of Obama insiders (as well as the Obamas themselves) were invited to the 50th Anniversary Gala for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, but … gosh durn it … they were too busy making change, so I had to settle for this picture of DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and his wife, Michelle. It

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  • My fair Señor Baby Wipes, aka, ultra fey, arrogant and “asshat-like” actor Terrence Howard is on the cover of Ebony and for some sick reason the photographer lit his face so his eyes would look extra vampiric and creepy, as if he can see through my soul and right into my bathroom to see if…

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  • Ryan Booth, “Harlem’s Flyest Toddler,” submitted by someone who loves her dearly.In my effort to show the world how beautiful black and brown children are (and that Sasha and Malia aren’t the unicorns of black children that Madison Avenue is making them out to be), I’ve received more than 40 emails from happy friends, relatives…

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