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Mar 19 2013

New Alzheimer's Association Report Reveals 1 in 3 Seniors Dies With Alzheimer's or Another Dementia

CHICAGO, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — According to the Alzheimer’s Association 2013 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts & Figures report released today, one in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another dementia in the United States. The new report shows that while deaths from other major diseases, such as heart disease, HIV/AIDS and stroke, continue to experience significant declines, Alzheimer’s deaths […]

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Mar 18 2013

TV ONE Picks Up Hit Sitcom "THE RICKEY SMILEY SHOW" For a Second Season

TV ONE ORDERS MORE COMEDY WITH SECOND SEASON PICK UP OF HIT SITCOM THE RICKEY SMILEY SHOW Via News Release: SILVER SPRING, MD (March 18, 2013) – TV One, on the heels of a record-breaking 2012 summer launch, has announced a second season pick-up of its original hit sitcom The Rickey Smiley Show. The second

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Mar 14 2013

Disney Channel's Zendaya, Put's on Her Dancing Shoes!

Sixteen year-old Zendaya Coleman, who plays the lead character, Zendaya on Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up,” a series about teenagers who dance on a local show called “Shake It Up Chicago,” is about to really shake it up in Season 16 of “Dancing With The Stars.” Already considered a favorite (perhaps it’s because

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Mar 13 2013

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected Pope

The new leader of the Catholic Church was revealed today, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, who has taken the name of Pope Francis. He stepped onto the Vatican balcony for the first time to address the roaring crowd in St. Peter’s Square. The cardinals who elected the new pope looked out from surrounding balconies above the

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Mar 13 2013

Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade and Sports Analyst Jay Bilas Team Up With Dove® Men + Care™ Adding Fatherhood Spotlight During March Madness

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Basketball greats will share a different side of themselves with sports fans throughout the NCAA ® Division I Men’s Basketball tournament, thanks to Dove® Men+Care™. The Unilever men’s personal care brand is giving fans a look beyond free throws during March Madness®, to show how important

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Mar 11 2013

THEATER REVIEW: San Diego Rep’s “The Mountaintop” Delivers

San Diego Repertory audiences will be the first on the West Coast to experience, “The Mountain Top,” A Broadway production originally starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson. Award-winning Playwright Katori Hall, remarkably imagines “The Mountaintop,” a fictional depiction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, last night on earth set in the room of

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Mar 8 2013

San Diego Teens and Women Kick Butt for a Cause

(San Diego, CA) Tinesia Conwright of DETOUR Empowers and creator of F.A.N.C.Y. Teen Girls Expo hosted a women’s and teens self-defense class with the help of Divas In Defense, an organization empowering women of all ages with the training and tools imperative to their personal safety and the safety of their families. This weekend’s

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Mar 8 2013

Alicia Keys teams up with Greater Than AIDS Campaign to EMPOWER women in the U.S.

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys has teamed up with Greater Than AIDS to launch EMPOWERED, a new public information campaign to reach women in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. Being released in the lead-up to National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 10), the ongoing EMPOWERED campaign includes targeted public

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Mar 7 2013

President Obama Signs Violence Against Women Act

Saying it was a “day of the advocates, a day of the survivors,” President Obama signed an expanded Violence Against Women Act on Thursday in Washington. “This is your victory,” Obama said. “And this victory shows that when the American people make their voices heard, Washington listens.” Originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized since,

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Mar 7 2013

Lovely Kelly Rowland, Chocolate Brown Skinned and Proud.

Kelly Rowland is extraordinarily beautiful and talented to boot. But like many women of color, she had to learn to embrace her beauty, especially her skin tone. A few weeks ago, during the 2013 Essence Black Women of Hollywood event, Eurweb interviewed Kelly who revealed her past insecurities with being a chocolate woman. The Grammy Award

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