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More BET Awards Performers Announced - On Monday, BET announced that rappers Lil Wayne and Drake have been added to the performers' lineup at this year’s BET Awards. Other acts include Chris Brown, Jill Scott and Alicia Keys. The ceremony will air live on Sunday, June 26 at 8P/7C.(Photo: Sean O'Kane for BET)

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Tracy Morgan Apologizes for Anti-Gay Rant - Comedian Tracy Morgan apologized Friday for comments he made about gays at a recent comedy show. “I want to apologize to my fans and the gay and lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville,” he said in a statement. During his act, Morgan said that if he had a gay son he’d stab him if he wasn’t able to come and talk to him “like a man.” (Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Mavs Beat the Heat - On Sunday the Dallas Mavericks defeated the favorite Miami Heat 105-95 to win the NBA championship in six games.(Photo: AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Rep. Anthony Weiner Going to Rehab - In the latest in the Weinergate scandal, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York), who recently admitted to inappropriate extramarital Internet relationships, has taken a leave of absence from the House of Representatives to enter rehab. Weiner, who has been facing pressure to resign, will deal with the problems that led him to the affairs during his rehab stay. On Monday, the White House said that Weiner’s behavior and subsequent lying about it was “inappropriate” and a “distraction.”(Photo: AP Photo/David Karp)

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Malcolm X’s Daughter Pleads Guilty - Malikah Shabazz, a daughter of Malcolm X, pleaded guilty to identity theft Thursday. She used the identity of a family friend to make more than $55,000 in unauthorized credit card purchases. Under a deal with prosecutors, Shabazz, 46, will repay the money and be on probation for five years. 

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Cory Booker May Run for Senate - It looks like Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker might be considering a run for a U.S. Senate seat. Booker recently filed papers to form a campaign political action committee.(Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

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Is Being a Single Mom Bad for Your Health? - A recent Ohio State University 30-year study indicates that middle aged single mothers may have worse health than women who were married when they had their children. In addition, getting married after having children doesn’t necessarily improve the former single mother’s health either. (Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters)

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Carl Lewis Wins N.J.'s Democratic State Senate Primary - On Tuesday, legendary Olympic runner Carl Lewis won an uncontested race in the New Jersey Eighth District to become a Democratic state Senate candidate. If he’s allowed to continue in the race (Republicans have challenged his state residency) he will go on to face his GOP challenger, Rep. Dawn Marie Addiego, in November.(Photo: Manny Hernandez/PictureGroup)

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Latino Gang Members Indicted for Targeting Blacks - Fifty-one alleged members of the Azusa 13 Mexican Mafia-affiliated gang were indicted in Los Angeles by the United States Attorney's Office on charges of racketeering and conspiracy related to a 20-year attempt to force Blacks to leave Azusa, a city with a Latino majority and small Black population northeast of Los Angeles. The indictment alleges systematic harassment of Blacks.(Photos: REUTERS/Luis Rivera /Landov)

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Blacks in Government Hit Hard by Job Losses - With African-Americans holding 21.2 percent of all government jobs, recent layoffs in the public sector have had a solid impact on the Black unemployment rate (which was 16.2 percent last month). Since 2009, 429,000 state and local workers have been laid off and at least 375,000 federal jobs have been slashed in the past three years, University of California-Berkeley researcher Steven Pitts found in a recent report.(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Lupe Fiasco Calls Obama a Terrorist - In a recent interview about the politically charged content of his latest album, rapper Lupe Fiasco called president Obama the “biggest terrorist in the United States of America.” "You know the root cause of terrorists is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists," he said.(Photo: Frank Micelotta/MTV/PictureGroup)

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Denver Elects Black Mayor - City councilman Michael Hancock beat opponent Chris Romer to become Denver’s 45th mayor, making him the second African-American to be elected to that post. Hancock garnered 57.7 percent of the results to Romer’s 42.3 percent. He will be sworn into office on July 18.(Photo: AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

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Plessy, Ferguson Descendants Team Up to Form Foundation - The descendants of the litigants of the historic Supreme Court decision Homer Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the Jim Crow doctrine in 1896, have united to form a civil rights education organization called the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation. Keith Plessy’s great-grandfather was Homer’s first cousin, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of Judge John Howard Ferguson. On Tuesday, the organization marked the anniversary of Homer Plessy’s decision to buy a ticket on a whites-only railroad car.(Photo: Plessy & Ferguson Foundation)

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Black Farmers Get Word on $1.25 Billion Settlement - African-American farmers, who faced discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the past but have yet to be compensated, may be eligible for part of a recent $1.25 billion settlement, the agency recently announced. Between 1981 and 1996 the agency was found to have systematically discriminated against Black farmers. The deadline for farmers, or their family members, to file claims is February 28, 2012.(Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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Is Being Obese Worse for Women? - Kaiser Permanente researchers recently founded that overall, overweight and obese people (those with a body mass over 25) had worse health-related quality of life than those with a “normal” body mass index. In addition, they also found that obese women suffer a lower quality of life than women in terms of mental health.(Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

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Plaxico Burress Released from Jail - On Monday, former New York Giants star receiver Plaxico Burress was released from prison after serving more than 20 months on a weapons charge. Back in 2008, Burress got into trouble after accidentally shooting himself at a New York City nightclub with a gun for which he didn’t have a permit. He hopes to return to the NFL this upcoming season. On Monday, Burress teamed up with the National Urban League to prevent gun violence.(Photo: Joe Corrigan/Getty Images)