Florida Sentinel Bulletin

NEW YORK  — Commuters streaming into New York City on Monday endured long waits and crowded trains, giving the recovering transit system a stress test a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the eastern third of the country, with New York and New Jersey bearing the brunt of the destruction. Trains were so crowded Monday on […]

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Each year, African American women spend millions of dollars on hair extensions and hair care products, contributing to the multi-billion dollar bottom line of a market that is 90 percent owned and operated by Korean businesses. In recent years, there’s been an outcry by the African American community calling for an investigation on the Korean […]

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A Navy veteran, who was charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer, is claiming she was a victim of police brutality. Some of the altercation between Stephanie Nickerson, 25, of Durham, North Carolina, and the police officer was caught on dark and blurry cell phone video. A voice can be heard off-camera, yelling, […]

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NEW YORK — The nation’s largest school system lurched to life Monday, with all but the students most affected by Superstorm Sandy making their way back to classes on foot, ferry and subway. Students at Stuyvesant High School, the city’s most selective school, swarmed out of Lower Manhattan’s subway stations after electricity was restored to […]

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Denzel Washington’s acclaimed new film ‘Flight’ is expected to score Oscar nominations, but few prognosticators expected it to open to huge box office numbers, since it was opening in a relatively small 1,884 theaters. But once again, the A-list actor proved that he is still one of the only truly bankable movie stars around. Flight […]

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Being neighbors with Jay-Z has its perks. During the post-Hurricane Sandy struggle that left many lower Manhattan without power, the rapper/mogul brought in a generator to power his building.

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Just over 10 years after the release of their last album, TLC is ready to get back in the studio. The R&B duo, announced during an appearance at the Mobo Awards in the UK last weekend that a new album, and biopic are in the works. The record, which has no announced release date, comes […]

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Lil Wayne is a sore loser, which makes sense because he has to pay the man he sued, over $2 million. Weezy lost his lawsuit against producer Quincy Jones, III over his depiction in the documentary The Carter, and he’s not exactly elated about the outcome. Young Money’s fearless leader thinks he lost the case […]

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50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Jr. had Twitter on fire. The former buddies were both going back and forth, hitting each other with disses and it had looked like the “Money Team” was all finished. However, 50 Cent revealed on his Twitter account that it was all for play-play. “I’m sick of all this nonsense […]

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