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 familiar afterglow of ’Bama’s second title in ...
Posted Sunday, June 17th 2012 at 9:42PM
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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.
"My mother has told me often that I was quite the d ...
Posted Sunday, June 17th 2012 at 7:54PM
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“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 Soundtrack” debuted straight at number one o ...
Posted Sunday, June 17th 2012 at 12:56PM
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"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 making her not only the first African-American ar ...
Posted Sunday, June 17th 2012 at 12:53PM
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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 religion-inspired remarks about the gay community ...
Posted Wednesday, June 13th 2012 at 12:41PM
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“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 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, ...
Posted Sunday, June 10th 2012 at 1:02PM
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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 to pose for photos (or film the entire visit on t ...
Posted Saturday, June 9th 2012 at 11:10AM
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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 the streets upon our arrival. There were no stars, ...
Posted Sunday, June 3rd 2012 at 12:19PM
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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 keeping me alive
I know he's
He's keeping me a ...
Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 9:54PM
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"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 heels of previous back-to-back successes "Hot S ...
Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 9:51PM
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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 changing fast.
Today's weak jobs report s ...
Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 12:16PM
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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 Mitch McConnell
As expected, Mitt Romn ...
Posted Saturday, June 2nd 2012 at 12:13PM
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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, a walking advertisement for the evils of drug ...
Posted Wednesday, May 30th 2012 at 7:35PM
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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 recording artist El DeBarge, with whom she shared ...
Posted Wednesday, May 30th 2012 at 7:34PM
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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),” is channeling Whitney over the telepho ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 10:56PM
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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 produced many of both singers’ hits. “W ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 10:55PM
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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 was opening for the singer Jeffrey Osborne. “I ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 8:23PM
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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 limits the media’s access to Houston because of ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 8:21PM
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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 is also a day devoted to picnics, road races, com ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 11:19AM
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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 prayed and partied, confident that she was on the brin ...
Posted Sunday, May 27th 2012 at 7:38PM
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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, I feel love
I feel love
I feel love, I fee ...
Posted Saturday, May 26th 2012 at 10:13PM
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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 viewers in the United States and a worldwide te ...
Posted Saturday, May 26th 2012 at 10:11PM
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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. But one picture of President Obama remains afte ...
Posted Thursday, May 24th 2012 at 8:33AM
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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 President Obama’s birth certificate: a single she ...
Posted Thursday, May 24th 2012 at 8:26AM
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