Florida Sentinel Bulletin

President Barack Obama made a searingly personal plea on Friday for Americans to come together and do some “soul searching” after the shooting death of African-American Florida teenager, Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watchman, noting: “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” “My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You […]

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Hope you had a great weekend, because now it’s time for us to knock you back with this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature, Daniela. This young lady stands 5’9” tall, and says her only hobby is dancing. In the future, she would like to graduate from college with her degree in biology education and pre-pharmacy. Daniela […]

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NEW YORK — First lady Michelle Obama says she thought for sure her cover was blown during an undercover visit to Target last year when a woman approached her in the detergent aisle. But the first lady told David Letterman on Monday the woman only wanted help with a package she couldn’t reach. During Obama’s […]

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LOS ANGELES  — Oprah Winfrey’s struggling television network, OWN, said Monday it is laying off one-fifth of its workers and restructuring its operations in New York and Los Angeles. The decision to let 30 employees go is a “tough” one, but the economics of a start-up cable network didn’t fit with OWN’s cost structure, Winfrey […]

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LOS ANGELES — Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos and his partner have settled a lawsuit against the owner of a charter jet company that secretly recorded the men and Michael Jackson as they flew from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara for the pop star to turn himself in on child molestation charges. The settlement calls for […]

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Apparently, not everyone learned from M.I.A.‘s bird flip Super Bowl fiasco. Cee-Lo Green thought it would be appropriate to follow suit at President Barack Obama‘s fund-raising event in Atlanta. With Tyler Perry hosting the event, Cee-Lo performed his hit “F**k You.” While the President thankfully missed Cee-Lo’s song audience members witnessed Cee-Lo giving a bird […]

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NEW YORK  — Bobbi Kristina Brown has been spotted wearing a sparkly bauble on her ring finger, but she’s not planning on getting married anytime soon. A rep for Brown’s mother, the late Whitney Houston, says the 19-year-old is “simply wearing her mother’s ring” and that she’s not engaged. Rumors about a possible engagement flew […]

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NEW YORK — The 87-year-old mother of the Rev. Al Sharpton has died. His spokeswoman says Ada Sharpton died early Thursday morning in Dothan, Ala., following a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Rachel Noerdlinger says Sharpton will fly to Alabama to make arrangements for his mother’s funeral after attending a rally Thursday evening […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor More details surrounding the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin were revealed during a telephone conference. The conference call, hosted by the National Newspaper Publishers Association and included Ms. Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of Martin; NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell, Attorney Benjamin Crump, Rev. Al Sharpton, George […]

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