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(cnbc.com) The founder of BET, Robert L. Johnson, just announced he's going into a new business-- one that has very little to do with his media background. He's going to be buying and operating car dealerships in the southern and Midwest regions of the country, partnering with the McLarty-Landers Automotive Group. What's the deal? The auto group has experience selling cars, and I'd guess that Johnson brings experience in marketing and ...More

Here is an excerpt from Roland Martin's piece on Republican no-shows at Black/Hispanic sponsored presidential debates: "Oh, yes, I know. Democrats have a stranglehold on the black vote, receiving upward of 90 percent in national elections. A significant part of that is a result of the party seeing blacks as the backbone of the party. But the reality is that when you have only one party that truly makes a play ...More

(telegraph.co.uk) A woman who almost entirely severed her husband's penis with a knife because he criticised her sexual skills has been sentenced to six months in prison. Umidah Setu, an Indonesian living in Malaysia, pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday in the southern city of Johor Bahru to voluntarily causing hurt, local newspapers reported. Neighbours alerted by screams rushed the man, named in local reports as Qumarodin Bajuri, an Indonesian contract worker, ...More

(hamptonroads.com) A South Florida developer showed cursory interest Thursday in Virginia Beach’s proposed convention center hotel. R. Donahue Peebles, chairman and chief executive officer of the Coral Gables-based Peebles Corp., said his company is “more than capable” of doing the project. The developer was in town to talk to Norfolk State University students and faculty and to promote his book, “The Peebles Principles.” The Peebles Corp. is said to be “the largest African ...More