P Diddy recently told Vibe magazine that Nighline HOst, Martin Bashir’s question about him giving his son a Maybach for his birthday was racist.

“There were times in the interview when I had to give him an ultimatum,” Diddy told Vibe. “The questions weren’t being handled the right way. In hindsight, when I saw him I shouldn’t had done the interview because I know the style of interview that he does . . . The whole thing about giving a Maybach to my son, that’s really like a racist question.”

“You don’t ask White people what they buy their kids,” he continued. “And they buy ‘em Porsches and convertible Bentleys and it ain’t no question. It’s really a racist question and put things back in perspective with money and the way that people still look at you. And I’m not saying that consciously he’s a racist. But he probably don’t even realize that he would not ask Steve Jobs that. He would be like Steve Jobs has that money and that’s the gift his kid is supposed to get.”

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Isaiah Mustafa smells like a man — and soon, Jennifer Aniston will be getting a big whiff of the budding star.

Mustafa — aka TV’s Old Spice Guy — has been tapped to join the cast of the film “Horrible Bosses,” starring Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Jason Sudeikis and Jason Bateman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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From Blackvoices.com:

Essence editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray told Black Voices in a written statement that Ellianna Placas, a former fashion editor at O: Home and Us Weekly, is just part of Essence’s growing fashion team.

“I understand that this issue has struck an emotional chord with our audience,” said Burt-Murray, “however I selected Ellianna, who has been contributing to the magazine on a freelance basis for the last six months, because of her creativity, vision, the positive reader response to her work and her enthusiasm and respect for the audience and our brand. We remain committed to celebrating the unique beauty and style of African-American women in Essence magazine and online at Essence.com.”

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Beyonce may be receiving a call from Oprah soon and it isn’t to be featured on her talk show. Oprah, who endorsed the ‘No Texting While Driving’ campaign, is probably upset that her friend Beyonce ignored the rules, as she was recently pulled over for texting while driving.

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But even beauty and a superstar status couldn’t get the singer out of a ticket with the NYPD. As a result, Beyonce, who recently obtained her driver’s license, received what us regular folks would have gotten, a $100 ticket.

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A month ago, alumni and administration officials at Fayetteville State University were angered over the appearance by several university cheerleaders in a music video done by popular rap artist and Fayetteville native J. Cole. Here’s the statement from FSU Chancellor Dr. James:

“I am writing our alumni to assure you that the university was unaware that this whole scenario was unfolding,” (FSU Chancellor Dr. James) Anderson says in his letter. “After talking to several individuals we have learned that the FSU employee who directs the cheerleaders gave them permission to participate in the video and to wear the Bronco uniforms. Her intention was to provide positive PR for the campus. She previewed a brief trailer (30 seconds) that was provided by the producer as did our general counsel and the athletic director, but the trailer did not include the presentation of the cheerleaders as they would appear in the full video. Moreover, they were led to believe that the cheerleaders would be used in the clean video only.”

Anderson said the three people involved “exhibited poor judgment” by not reviewing the entire video and getting a signed statement from the producer that FSU would only be used in the clean version.

All requests for marketing or advertising are supposed to go through the vice chancellor for advancement, which didn’t happen in this case, Anderson said.

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The Magic 95.9 crew will stop by 5 salons on Saturday July 31.
The salons will be chosen from listener submissions entered here.
All the ladies in the salon will receive a rose, provided by Flowers by Gina D (www.flowersbyginad.net)
While there, Magic 95.9 will have a drawing to win dinner certificates to top Baltimore area restaurants.
All submissions must be in by Friday July 30 at 3pm.

From Vibe.com:

In honor of the summer action thriller Takers—starring Idris Elba, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Michael Ealy, Chris Brown and Zoe Saldana and hits theaters Aug. 20—we thought we’d look back at some of the coolest bank robbery films the big screen has to offer. See where your faves fared and get ready to fire up those Netflix and Blockbuster queues to add a few of these titles to your list if haven’t seen them yet. 

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With Comic-Con closing this week, Newsone has decided to bring you the Top Ten Black Superheroes in comic books. In the age of Obama, where getting more diverse is status quo, comic books have become more saavy than ever. X-men, the trailblazing comic book, has added several African and African-American characters over the last decade, for example. These aren’t just black people with superpowers, these are educated luminaries with powerful gifts to change the world or destroy it. They aren’t just juiced-up mega humans; they are in a sense, demi-gods. Intelligent, well-written, off-the-cuff and ultra-powerful. Here’s our list:

10. Storm

With the map of Africa on her face, silver hair and della robbia blue eyes, Ororo is one of the most powerful and (as her name suggests) beautiful mutants in the X-men pantheon. The vain reigning queen consort of Wakanda (a fictional African nation), after marrying King T’Challa, is known as Black Panther. Storm puts rapper Trina to shame as the baddest… well, you know. As a mutant with the psionic ability to control weather, an expert in espionage, and one of the most skilled fighters, she was one of the first black super heroines to grace comic book pages.

9. Black Panther

Praised for its spectacular and sophisticated wit in faintly ultramodern technologically-advanced, xenophobic Africana milieu, the tale of a Wakanda reigning emperor and his adventures is one of the best written in the Marvel universe. Black Panther, the first black contemporary superhero is one of epic proportions.

8. Frenzy

Black characters are rarely in comics and often a character would be introduced and later given the shaft depending on the writers, either by fatal comic book death or a long excursion somewhere. Frenzy, the mutant supervillainess with the steel-hard skin and super strength is a tough-as-nails badass able to exchange blows with Rouge and She-Hulk without breaking a sweat.

7. Bling!

Okay, so maybe that bling-bling No Limit crew phrase had too many followers when Salvador Larroca and Peter Milligan created Roxy Washington, daughter of hip-hop artists Roy “Daddy Libido” Washington and Angel “Sexy Mutha” Depres. Whatever. Working under Gambit, this durable young lady can project diamond shards from her diamond hide.

6. Gentle

This guy makes our list because he is one of the few depictions of a non-hostile, motivated black male superhero in comic books. Why is this important? Well, it just so happens that this African mutant pacifist can provisionally amplify his muscle mass to hyper-extreme echelons to the extent of lifting 100 tons, but does need the help of vibranium tattoos titivating his body to keep his powers under control.

5. Darwin

The Afro-Latino chameleon, and one of the X-men’s most powerful mutants, does whatever he can to survive, and is constantly in a state of evolution, like his code name suggests. He is a victim of reactive evolution. If there is a fire, his skin may turn to steel. If he is in danger of drowning, he grows fish gills. If it’s dark, he has night-vision. If he’s in an Ivy League classroom, he can increase his intelligence. If we say he’s awesome, he’s awesome.

4. Prodigy

The smarty-pants lost his powers in an Armageddon free-for-all, but before that he had the telepathic aptitude to absorb and mimic the knowledge and skills from the minds of people in his close proximity and the ability to know opponents coming attacks, that even allowed him to duke it out with Wolverine! With self-compulsory mental blocks, he prefers to learn naturally which hindered his abilities, but don’t count him out just because he was depowered: he has knowledge from Beast and trade secrets from Professor X as well as martial art skills from that Hugh Jackman guy…

3. Angel Salvadore

So, how does one explain this without getting others offended? She’s a common human fly that happens to be a total hottie in X-men world. With the capability to vibrate her wings at turbo, she could produce an ear-splitting ultrasonic sound and a nasty gestation period; she is one of the most fabulous mutants to explode on the pages.

2. M

She’s basically the Wonder Woman of Marvel Comics’ X-men. Are they using her correctly? We don’t know but she’s got a great back story that involves a dead boyfriend, twin quarrels and family issues up all over the place. She is a genius and also has a perfect memory, intuitive dexterity, superhuman strength and invulnerability, a healing factor, can fly at supersonic speeds, and is a pretty powerful telepath.

1. Synch

M’s dead ex-boyfriend and fearless leader of Generation X was one of the most powerful black mutants ever and died saving civilians from a live bomb. His bio-engertic aura allowed him to “synch” with other mutants in his vicinity and duplicate the effect of their power, and often had better control of their powers better than they could.

Honorable Mentions:

1. Cipher

The dreadlocked vixen is running from a certain “he” and won’t give up the ghost about who “he,” is, but luckily for her that this adroit mole has the capability of full-spectrum invisibility and absolute stealth, mentally or physically and can even phase through solid objects.

2. Bishop

Hands down, the toughest X-man we’ve seen in years, with his signature M over his right eye. More powerful than his baby sister Shard, who can blast photon lazers, the time travel nomad can absorb all types of energy at one time and is superb armed and unarmed combat as well as being a studious marksman.

3. Static Shock

Virgil Hawkins, was your average high school student until he came into contact with an experimental mutagen that allowed him to possess the power to organize and maneuver electromagnetism and was named after the first black to go to law school as well as the lead plaintiff in the fight to desegregate the University of Florida College of Law.

4. Vixen

Jet’s Beauty Of The Week, anyone? Vixen can facilitate her power to make direct contact with gaia’s morphogenetic field which grants her power to mimic the abilities of nearby animals and can hold on to those powers. She has demonstrated the debilitating shock of an electric eel, having the strength of a bull elephant, the agility of a monkey, the sonar of a bat, the speed of a cheetah, the swimming acrobatics of a dolphin and the ability to spit venom a la a cobra.

5. Orpheus

Constantly denied as one of the unforgettable superheroes, Orpheus was a martial artist and dancer, capable of blending into shadows via stealth suit.

6. Cecilia Reyes

An Afro-Latina trauma surgery medical doctor from the Bronx, Reyes can generate a psioplasmic bio-field around her body that can protect her and others and be used offensively as bladed weapons that can puncture the human form. Not bad, eh?

7. Blade

People get very offended when you put Blade on a list of greatest superheroes because he’s essentially a vampire killer. With a world overran by Edward Cullen-types, isn’t it fair to say that he should be honored as one of the greatest superheroes ever? The day walking dhampir martial artist is an accomplished jazz trumpeter, an expert swordsman and marksman and has a rapid healing factor that makes it easy to hunt his prey at all times.

8. John Stewart, The Green Lantern

One of the first black superheroes ever given superior powers and the only black to wear the powerful oan power ring—the most powerful weapon in the DC universe—he can greet solid-light constructs unlimited by his willpower and imagination… which is dope. Why? Well, he tried creating a planet from scratch, and even the ring couldn’t keep up.

9. Tombstone

Why is he listed when he’s not even a hero, huh? Well, every villain is as good as the superhero. Besides; let’s face it, as an African-American albino with razor-sharp barbed teeth, able to withstand bullets and toxic gas with superhuman strength and agility, he’s one of the strongest depictions of all of the colors in African Americans.

10. Falcon

The “black one” in the Avengers, he is one of the coolest as well. He has the ability to control birds, and see through their eyes. In one issue, he noted: “I have over six billion pairs of eyes in the United States alone,” which makes him an awesome spy. He’s also an expert gymnast and flies with off-the-chain wing gliders.

From Clutchmagonline.com:

On Friday evening, cultural critic and writer Michaela angela Davis tweeted: “It is with a heavy heavy heart I have learned that Essence magazine has engaged a white fashion director, this hurts, literally, spiritually.” Michaela’s tweet erupted a series of reactions, re-tweets, and scores of Facebook comments. Responses ranged from shock, disappointment to utter confusion.

Our immediate reaction? As the publication unofficially deemed “Essence‘s little sister”—a growing young urban women’s online brand for news, critical commentary, lifestyle, fashion and beauty—it felt like our Mom walked us hand in hand to the center of the biggest shopping mall in the state, turned around, and left us. But we are no longer the little girls eyeballing the glossy giant who taught us how to love ourselves. We’ve been finding our way through the life, love and labels for quite sometime now; and the likely abandonment of the counselor who taught us everything we know is now evolving into clearer overstanding. The pressing question for many of us is how much does Time Warner have to do with the hiring?

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If “gay rapper” is an oxymoron where you come from, how to get your head around the notion of a gay rapper performing in a sports bar? What in most cities might seem plausible only as some sort of Sacha Baron Cohen-style provocation is just another weeknight in the cultural Galapagos that is New Orleans.

Sometime after midnight on the sweltering Thursday before Memorial Day, the giant plasma-screen TVs at the Sports Vue bar (which “proudly airs all major Pay Per View events from the world of Boxing and Ultimate Fighting”) were all switched off, and the bar’s backroom turned into a low-lit, low-ceilinged dance club, where more than 300 people awaited a return engagement by Big Freedia, who by day runs an interior-decoration business and who is, to fans of the New Orleans variant of hip-hop music known as “bounce,” a superstar.

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Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend told authorities probing the actor for alleged domestic abuse that he said to her at one point, “I want Jew blood on my hands.”

Gossip website RadarOnline.com quotes sources as saying the former girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, said Gibson was furious at the time at a leading Hollywood figure he felt had humiliated him, and hired a team of private eyes to follow the person around in 2009.

RadarOnline says Grigorieva told investigators Gibson, as the website puts it, “wanted the person taken to the desert, stripped naked, knee capped and left in the heat,” but never had it done.

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Could we see another sequel to a much-loved ‘80s classic from the man who’s preparing to unleash Gordon Gekko on the world for a second time?

Oliver Stone has told Total Film he loved returning to Gekko so much that there could be further surprises in store…

 “It’s been great to go back with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” he enthused. “I should go back and do Son of Scarface or something!”

 Stone, in London to discuss his Hugo Chavez documentary South of the Border, wouldn’t elaborate, but, changing the story to follow (the deceased) Tony Montana’s progeny would certainly be in keeping with Wall Street 2, which gives Gordon Gekko a daughter.

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Rapper Foxy Brown was arraigned this morning in Brooklyn Criminal Court after prosecutors charged her with violating an order of protection.

“A restraining order should never be used as a sword,” lawyer Bruce Barron said. “It’s a shield.”

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From Outsports.com:

Former NFL defensive end turned ESPN commentator Marcellus Wiley was asked about an out player in the NFL by the Huffington Post. Wiley said he was Esera Tuaolo’s teammate and that the guys joked with Tuaolo about him being gay (before he came out). And as we hear over and over and over and over and over, Wiley’s fine with it…but he thinks everyone else isn’t.

It would really be tough for a gay guy in the NFL, for the locker room to understand him as a homosexual — I’m not saying it’s impossible to pull off, but I’m saying right now the fear of coming out of the closet and more so coming out in the locker room would really be too tremendous to overcome. It’s unfortunate because it shouldn’t be that way.

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Snoop Dogg really was living the life he described in his rap songs and it was destroying his marriage to his wife and the mother of his three children.

“You know, I was caught up with Hollywood, and the girls and the night life,” Snoop said in 2008.  Snoop even filed for divorce, but the couple reconciled and even renewed their vows to celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2008.
“I thought I was the man and I was willing to give up what I had at hone for that, until I realized that what I had at home was irreplaceable, so I gave that up to go back home,” Snoop said. Now Snoop and Shante have revealed to People Magazine that the discovery that their then-6-year-old daughter, Cori (pictured above, third from right), had lupus was also one of the things that helped bring their family closer.

At first, the couple noticed spots on their daughter’s face. They saw her dropping large amounts of weight without explanation and they saw her hair coming out. Doctor after doctor couldn’t explain what was happening. ”I felt helpless,” Snoop told People while fighting back tears. “No power, no friends.”

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