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Clarice Taylor, who played Bill Cosby’s mother on The Cosby Show, died on Monday at age 93 of heart failure. The Emmy nominated actress was surrounded by friends and family.
A performer on stage, radio, TV and film for over five decades, the actress was a member of the New York stage group, the Negro Ensemble Company, and helped to pave the way for African-American actors in the early 1960s.
Taylor is survived by her two sons, William and James, and her five grandchildren.
HOT 97 deejay Mister Cee pled guilty to public lewdness and exposure in a New York Criminal Court room this morning. Mr. Cee whose real name is Calvin Lebrun, 42, was arrested on March 30, after cops caught him getting oral sex from another man in a car, Manhattan prosecutors revealed.
Cee, who is also a well-respected record producer, pleaded guilty to a charge of loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offence, which is not a crime but a violation instead.
The male prostitute Cee was caught with is Lawrence Campbell, 20.
In the police report, the arresting officer wrote that he observed defendant Campbell manipulating defendant Lebrun’s “exposed, naked, and erect penis” in a public place where he might “readily be observed.” And that Campbell’s mouth and lips were firmly attached to Lebrun’s penis “in an up-and-down motion consistent with oral sex.”
When the news first broke, Mister Cee created a Twitter account to vigorously defend his questionable manhood. Other deejays, who have had their manhoods questioned in the past — such as Funkmaster Flex — joined rap artists in support of the married father of four.
Unable to come to terms with her pastor’s secret lifestyle, Bernice King has left her position at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, according to the AJC.
King, 48, the youngest and only surviving daughter of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, left her position as an elder on Sunday just days after Bishop Eddie Long and the church settled lawsuits brought by 4 men who say he coerced them with gifts, clothing and trips in exchange for sex.
King was an impassioned opponent of gay rights and gay marriage in particular. In 2004, King and Long walked side by side during a march against gay marriage that ended at the Martin Luther King grave site.
It is supposedly well-known in the lesbian community that King is not empathetic toward gays and lesbians. It has been long rumored that Bernice, who never married, is an undercover lesbian herself. Just because she’s not married doesn’t constitute her being a lesbian though. I’m not married YET and I’m not gay! Far from it.
In a report written by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Long was called “one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement.” In one sermon, he says to gays and lesbians, “God says you deserve death!”
Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist mega church once had a membership of 25,000. But at the 8 a.m. service on the Sunday following news of the settlement, the congregation numbered in the hundreds.
Time eventually reveals all truth!
American soldiers and Marines walking combat patrols in Afghanistan have suffered a surge of gruesome injuries, losing one or both legs and often their genitals to crude homemade bombs the Taliban insurgents bury in dirt roads and pathways.
Insurgents often make the bombs using a plastic bucket packed with explosive ammonium nitrite fertilizer and a simple “trigger” made with two sticks of wood or a discarded plastic bottle that completes a circuit and detonates when crushed. The crude components make the bombs more difficult to detect than those once made with metal parts.
Today is memorial day, so in the midst of your barbeques, social excursions and beach outings, reflect on those who are serving our country; for this is what today is really all about.
The lost of our their limbs and their lives our service men and women face, is the sacrifice they make each day.
According to online reports, Bishop Eddie Long settled out of court with his 4 male accusers, who were teenagers of legal age when he plied them with cash and gifts in exchange for sex. Maurice Robinson, 21, Anthony Flagg, 22, Jamal Parris and another man, claimed the Bishop “coerced” and “enticed” them with exotic trips, clothing and cars. In one case, he even paid the young man’s college tuition.
Long vigorously denied the allegations when the news broke last September. Throughout the ordeal the Bishop’s long suffering wife and their four grown children stood beside him. Their support never wavered.
There are unconfirmed rumors that Long paid each man $1.5 million and an apology behind closed doors. But according to media personality Star Jones, who was in Atlanta yesterday, the terms of the settlement have not been made public.
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