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  • When I worked at a newspaper I used to joke with some of my co-workers that without The Bakersfield Californian some of my cohorts would find a date. I knew plenty of people who dated, broke up and even married within the newsroom. I didn’t date at work because, well, I like to keep things…

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  • According to Michelle Obama Watch, the First Lady will be returning to Sesame Street for the season premiere. Read about it here.

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  • And hilarity ensued. From Huffington Post: During a CNBC interview on Monday, President Obama called Kanye West a “jackass” regarding his behavior at the MTV Video Music Awards. (Watch the video of Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMAs here and read about his first apology.) Obama’s colorful remark was actually made in…

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  • Thanks to reader dkan71 for the link.

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  • [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYObhEKXCc&hl=en&fs=1&] First the good. Janet Jackson put it down for her brother at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night. She was incredible and I, already a JJ fan, had ever more respect for her ability to put on such a performance so soon after her brother’s passing, performing the only song the two…

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  • By Thembi Ford Getting his hot little hands on Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play “For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” was coup of the year for Tyler Perry. Not only will he produce and direct the upcoming film version, the King of Coonery will also write the adaptation of what…

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  • Janet Jackson is going to open the MTV Video Music Awards with a tribute to her brother, Michael Jackson and we’ll be yakking up all the festivities, the clothes, the music, the performances and the tribute at The Black Snob’s Forum! (blacksnob.ning.com) You can join in! Not a member of The Forum yet? Just click

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