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by Diane McWhorter, NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 2012 -- THE depth of my alienation from home hit me last January, when Alabama shut out Louisiana State for the college football championship. Even in the

CNN, June 17, 2012 -- Joy McNair has a wonderful memory of herself as a toddler running toward her astronaut father as he returns home. But it's not her memory. She borrowed it from someone else. "

“I Love the Lord” is a single written by Richard Smallwood and performed by Whitney Houston with the Georgia Mass Choir from the 1996 movie “The Preacher’s Wife.” “The Preacher's Wife Soundtra

"Hot Stuff" is a hit released by Donna Summer in 1979 as the first single release from her “Bad Girls” album. "Hot Stuff" earned Summer the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance mak

HUFFINGTON POST, June13, 2012 -- With her danceable music and glamorous style, Donna Summer became an instant icon for the gay community during her 1970s heyday. So when she allegedly made a number of

“I'm Your Baby Tonight” is the title track of Whitney Houston’s third studio album. “I'm Your Baby Tonight” was released as the first single from the album in October 1990. It reached the number one

HUFFINGTON POST, June 8, 2012 -- Michelle Obama visited Mom's Apple Pie Company in Occoquan, Va. on Thursday, CBS reports. She received a warm welcome from patrons who hugged her, cheered and lined up

REVIEWED BY AL SHARPTON, N.Y. TIMES, June 3, 2012 -- When James Brown’s children and I brought his body back to Harlem from Georgia after his untimely death in 2006, tens of thousands greeted us in th

HE'S ALL OVER ME by Whitney Houston Oh he's all He's all over me He's keeping me alive He's all over me He's keeping me alive He's all over me And he's keeping me alive The Lord is

"DIM ALL THE LIGHTS” (1979) was Donna Summer's only hit single that she wrote alone, with no co-writers. She originally wrote it for Rod Stewart but decided she would do it herself. Hot on the

By Jonathan Chait, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, June 1, 2012 -- Last month, I concluded from the weak jobs report that the economy still didn’t appear weak enough to make Mitt Romney the favorite. But times are

By Jamelle Bouie, AMERICAN PROSPECT, June 1, 2012 – “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” ~ Repuiblican Senate Minority Leader

By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- At the celebration of Michael Jackson’s 30th anniversary as a solo artist, in September 2001, Houston arrived stick-thin, with the bones in her clavicle showing

By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- Every time Whitney was down, she would turn to the Lord. Even during her final days, in Los Angeles, she spoke about God frequently, praying in a nightclub with

By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- A week after Houston’s death, Narada Michael Walden, who produced many of her hits, including “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),

By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- She’d never been one to take serious care of her voice, unlike Celine Dion, who “wouldn’t speak for 24 hours before we were going to record,” says Foster, who p

By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- It was all about the voice, “the voice of our time,” as the songwriter Diane Warren once called it. The gospel singer BeBe Winans first heard it when Whitney wa

By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- “During her early hit years, Houston did few interviews,” Out magazine reported in a 2000 interview with her. “Music-industry insiders suggest that Davis limit

BY DAVID BLIGHT, History Professor, Yale University -- Americans understand that Memorial Day, or "Decoration Day," as my parents called it, has something to do with honoring the nation's war dead. It

By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- Her friends and family chose to concentrate on the positive. Whitney was a multifaceted woman, they said, who always loved the Lord. In her final days, she pray

Ooh it's so good, it's so good it's so good, it's so good it's so good Ooh heaven knows, heaven knows heaven knows, heaven knows heaven knows Ooh I feel love, I feel love I feel love

On January 27, 1991–10 days into the Persian Gulf War—Whitney Houston took the field at Tampa Stadium during Super Bowl XXV and performed "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER” before 73,813 fans, 115 million vie

NEW YORK TIMES, May 23, 2012 — For decades at the White House, photographs of the president at work and at play have hung throughout the West Wing, and each print soon gives way to a more recent shot.

TALKING POINTS MEMO, May 23, 2012 -- This is what Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has to show for two months of writing emails and nearly a week of nationwide ridicule in his investigation of P