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Obama Inauguration Celebrities: Who, What And Where

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment

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NEW YORK — If you thought the Golden Globes was a party, just wait until you see Barack Obama's inauguration. Next week, Washington will look a ...

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Jay-Z To Play On Eve Of Obama's Inauguration

AP | Posted 02.07.2009 | Entertainment

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NEW YORK — Jay-Z isn't performing at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, but he is planning to make a big splash on the eve of the even...

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Jay-Z Headlining Inauguration Weekend Club Party In D.C.

NY Times | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

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The Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z, whose lyrics President-elect Barack Obama channeled on the campaign trail in a swipe at his former rival, Senator Hillary R...

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A Post-Thanksgiving Cornucopia: World AIDS Day, The Birth of (RED)WIRE, Milk and Prop 8

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.31.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Prop 6, Congress, Hiv, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ontario, Who, Dixie Chicks, Asia, China, Wolrd Health Foundation, Gay Adoption, Ali Partovi, Olympic Bird's Nest, Patna Women's College, The Killers, W Hotels, Premiere Wen Jiabao, Aids, Elvis Costello, World AIDS Day, Melissa Etheridge, Latin America, President Barack Obama, Rod Stewart, Nand Kishore Yadev, Sheryl Crow, The Police, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Emile Hirsch, Coldplay, India, Matthew Sheppard, James Franco, Starbucks, Gay Marriage, Jay-Z, Josh Brolin, Toronto, Prop 8, Spider-Man, Canada, Sean Penn, Keith Olbermann, California, Don MacKinnon, Lisa Gurry, W, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Senator Barbara Boxer, (RED), Elton John, World Health Organization, Kargil Chowk, Hear Music, Senator John v. Briggs, High School Music, John Legend, Unicef, Molly Johnson, Msn, Lucas Grabeel, United States, Harvey Milk, Gus Van Sant, Death Cab for Cutie, Into the Wild, President George W. Bush, Itunes, Carribean, Matthew Shepard, Ilike, Entertainment News

The new online digital magazine (RED)WIRE will sponsor a series of unique performances by artists such as U2 and Sheryl Crow, in its bid to help fight AIDS.

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Micheal Young History Reinvents Gangsta Rap

Timothy Cooper | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment

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The creation of Michael Young History goes back to Lupe's first album, Food and Liquor.

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Beyonce: I Was In No Rush To Marry Jay-Z

Us | Posted 12.15.2008 | Entertainment

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Beyonce wasn't in any hurry to tie the knot to Jay-Z. "I was 18 when we first met, 19 when we first started dating," she says in the December/January...

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Beyonce On "Ridiculous" Offers For Wedding Photos

AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment

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NEW YORK — Beyonce insists she would have never considered selling photos of her hush-hush wedding to Jay-Z to a glossy celebrity magazine. Stil...

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Hip-Hop Stars Stump For Obama In South Florida

AP | SARAH LARIMER | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

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MIAMI — With two days remaining until Election Day, Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs told voters in South Florida not to be scared away from the pol...

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Hip-Hop Stars Stump For Obama

AP | SARAH LARIMER | Posted 12.04.2008 | Entertainment

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MIAMI — With two days remaining until Election Day, Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs told voters in South Florida not to be scared away from the pol...

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Shakir Stewart, Jay-Z's Successor At Def Jam, Suicides

AP | Posted 12.02.2008 | Entertainment

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ATLANTA — The executive who succeeded Jay-Z as the head of hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound near ...

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LeBron James And Jay-Z Hosting Rally, Free Concert For Obama

AP | Posted 11.23.2008 | Entertainment

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CLEVELAND — NBA superstar LeBron James and Grammy-winning recording artist Jay-Z want people to get out early to vote for Democratic presidentia...

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Sarah Palin and The GOP's Charli Baltimore Plan

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.22.2008 | Media

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Watching Palin sit through the SNL skit, it amazed me how politics and Hip Hop have established some sort of weird intertextuality.

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Jay-Z Explains Voter ID Requirements (VIDEO)

Huffington Post via The Nation | Posted 11.16.2008 | Entertainment

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Jay-Z has filmed a new video for Barack Obama and it's been uploaded to YouTube. In it, the Obama-support walks potential voters through what they'll ...

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The Great Hip-Hop Debate: 10 Policy Tackling Rap Videos

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 11.14.2008 | Entertainment

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In celebration of the third and final Presidential Debate, URB.com put together the 10 best rap songs where candidates truly debate the issues. Most of these nominees just happen to rap.

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Jay-Z To Perform At Obama Voter Drive

AP | Posted 11.01.2008 | Entertainment

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LANSING, Mich. — Jay-Z is doing an encore for Barack Obama. The 38-year-old rapper, a vocal supporter of the Democratic presidential candidate,...

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The Real Meaning and Real Talk of a Real Life '08 Bonnie and Clyde

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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As the world gazed upon this regal African American woman in her royal blue dress, there were tears of grief shed for women just like Michelle who endured water hoses, police batons, and dogs over 40 years ago.

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McCain has 99 problems

Bart Motes | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media

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Confession: I love Meghan McCain. So I had to carefully weigh the sacrifice of a potential opportunity to drink a beer in a dive bar with Meghan versu...

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This Week's Internet Diversions

Jack Donaldson | Posted 07.31.2008 | Entertainment

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Another collection of the trivial, the inane, the entertaining, and the viral, including Jay-Z at Glastonbury, a New Yorker's worst fears of LA come true, and favorites from the Onion.

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Jay-Z Drops Almost $20K On Paris Dinner

The Sun | Beci Wood | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment

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Jay-Z rung up a 10,000 [British pounds] dinner bill when treating his entourage to a slap-up meal in Paris this week. The big-spender took his 30-peo...

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Barack Obama's iPod: Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, Sheryl Crow, Jay-Z

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

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WASHINGTON — Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack O...

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Barackalypse Now!: Boomers Hope That 'Bama Will Bring The Death Of Bling. Bitch, PLEASE!

Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home

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The way Dash declares his love for them big-bodied Benzes to Obama's admission that he snorted a little blow: it's being open, unapologetically, which is something neither the focus-grouped Clinton nor the liver-spotted McCain could do.

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Ferraro: Black Journalists Are The New Sexism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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Geraldine Ferraro continued her campaign to get someone, anyone, to do something about all the sexism in the campaign today in an appearance on Fox Ne...

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Does Clinton Camp Talk of Sexism Risk the Democrats' Future?

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.

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Ferraro Walks Back Obama 'No Vote' Comment, But Hits 'Sexist' Jay-Z Reference (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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This morning, Clinton backer Geraldine Ferraro appeared on NBC's Today, where she elaborated at length about the sexism in the race. Mainly citing th...

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