Florida Sentinel Bulletin

During its July 30 episode, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots broke the 2 million viewer mark. The scripted drama is averaging 1.7 million viewers and a 1.5. rating among women 25-54. Late last month it was reported that with the help of Tyler Perry’s two new shows, OWN has turned a profit […]

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Soulja Boy’s plans to fly the friendly skies didn’t go down as planned last weekend. The “Turn My Swag On” rapper got booted from an American Airlines flight when he didn’t cooperate with a flight attendant’s instructions to have a seat. Soulja Boy has a lot in common with Alec Baldwin — not that he’s […]

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A man who claims he was punched and kicked by a member of Chris Brown’s entourage during a fight at a recording studio sued the R&B singer on Tuesday for assault and battery. Sha’keir Duarte sued Brown for unspecified damages in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he suffered a concussion as well as humiliation and […]

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WASHINGTON  — Former President Bill Clinton is headed back to the White House — just for a day — and Oprah is coming, too. Clinton and Oprah Winfrey will be among 16 people that President Barack Obama will venerate later this year with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday. They’ll join […]

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On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced his “Smart on Crime” initiative, calling for major changes to drug sentencing, the release of elderly prisoners, and a decreased length of non-violent crime sentences. These measures will have a major impact on African-American defendants. Blacks have been disproportionately sentenced at higher rates than Whites, “African Americans are […]

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NEW YORK — The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday in a stinging rebuke for what the mayor and police commissioner have defended as a […]

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ATLANTA —- A 15-year-old boy in DeKalb County is in desperate need of a heart transplant, but doctors say he doesn’t qualify for the transplant list. Anthony Stokes is receiving treatment at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. Doctors have told his family that Anthony has less than six months to live, but he can’t […]

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BY KRISTOPHER COLLEY, II As the money and gigantic contracts flow in Major League Baseball, it is easy to predict that teams that cannot afford the price tags of certain players will get left in the dust. This has not been the case for the Tampa Bay Rays in recent years. Year in and year […]

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On Friday night (tonight), the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be in Foxboro, Massachusetts to face the New England Patriots in their second pre-season game. The Bucs and Patriots have been practicing together all week, and on Wednesday, everyone took a deep breath when Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady (pictured), went down holding his knee. Brady was […]

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