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He started from the bottom, but now he's on top at the BET Awards: Drake has 12 nominations.more
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This Feb. 10, 2013 file photo shows rapper Drake at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Drake has been nominated for 12 BET Awards, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The awards show will air live June 30 from Los Angeles' Nokia Theater L.A. Live. Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision (AP File Photo)
Rapper Drake Leads BET Awards with 12 Nominations
Originally published May 17, 2013He started from the bottom, but now he's on top at the BET Awards: Drake has 12 nominations.more
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May 17, 2013 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forget the DVR.more
May 17, 2013 -
Baltimore middle and high school students were joined by youth from across the country at the Creative Alliance on March 15 to showcase their photographs and short films at the opening night of the 8th Annual Wide Angle Film Festival.more
May 17, 2013 -
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- The Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund (SCSF) provides individual grants ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 to every student who qualifies and reapplies yearly, from admission to graduation.more
May 16, 2013 -
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May 15, 2013 -
Recording artist and pastor, Deitrick Haddon has been cast to appear on the Oxygen series "Pastors of L.A." Confirmed May 13, the series is slated to follow the lives of pastors in California.more
May 15, 2013 -
Eriq La Salle, award-winning TV actor, can now add published author to his list of talents, along with acting and directing. He has written Laws of Depravity, a thriller about good versus evil with a heavy undercurrent of spirituality throughout the narrative.more
May 13, 2013 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin has canceled appearances in Chicago and Connecticut later this month under a doctor's recommendation.more
May 11, 2013 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:more
May 11, 2013 -
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Officials in Georgia have decided to move the boyhood home of Little Richard to spare it from a highway construction project.more
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