Monthly Archives: March 2009

CL HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: RON BROWN

RON BROWN (1941-1996) was a businessman and politician who was the first black person to serve as chairman of a national political party and the first black Secretary of Commerce.

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NEW VIDEOS: MUSIQ / DWELE / JAZMINE SULLIVAN

Musiq Soulchild has released a video for “SoBeautiful”, the third single from his fifth album, Onmyradio.

A photographer in the video, Musiq notices a neighbor’s natural beauty. He invites her to his place and asks her to be his model. Her pictures are printed in a magazine titled “So Beautiful” and he sends it to her with a note: “I desperately need a stand-in tonight.”

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SPOTTED: TYRESE WITH DAUGHTER SHAYLA

Earlier this week, singer Tyrese and his daughter Shayla Somer Gibson were spotted spending quality father-daughter time together in West Hollywood, California.

Recently a judge ordered Tyrese to pay his wife of 10 months, Norma Mitchell Gibson, $65,000, in addition to $6,230 per month in spousal support, as well as mortgage and car payments that total up to more than $162,000. According to reports, the two are going through messy divorce proceedings.

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POLITICS: PRESIDENT OBAMA MEETS PM GORDON BROWN / FIRST LADY VISITS ARLINGTON CEMETERY / PLAN TO CUT WASTEFUL SPENDING

President Barack Obama met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday to discuss the United States and British economic stimulus packages. Brown is the first European leader to meet with President Obama.

FIRST LADY VISITS ARLINGTON CEMETERY

First Lady Michelle Obama poses with veterans Alyce Dixon, 102, and Ester P. Corcoran, 103, (R) at Arlington National Cemetery’s Women in Military Service for America Memorial Center in Washington earlier this week in observance of Women’s History Month.

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