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              VIA USA TODAY: President Obama will appear on a record five TV networks on Sunday plus sit down with late-night host David Letterman on Monday. It’s the latest broadcast blitz for Obama, who has made himself accessible to news and entertainment outlets. USA TODAY’s Catalina Camia and David […]

            VIA WASINGTONPOST.COM: By David Cho, Steven Mufson and Tomoeh Murakami Tse J.P. Morgan Chase for the first time convened its board in Washington this summer, calling the directors to a meeting at the downtown Hay-Adams hotel, then dispatching them to Capitol Hill for meet-and-greets. Last month, a firm run by […]

Chuck Brown was joined on stage at the 19th Annual Stone Soul Picnic by none other than DC Council member and former DC Mayor Marion Barry. See photos of these two Washington, DC icons below.

VIA CNN: The Philadelphia Eagles welcomed Michael Vick back into the National Football League on Friday after the quarterback spent almost two years in federal prison on a felony dogfighting conviction. Vick, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons, has signed a two-year deal with the Eagles. “I think everybody deserves a second chance,” Vick said at […]

VIA ADVOCATE.COM: Gay African-American author E. Lynn Harris died Friday morning in Arkansas of a heart attack. He was 54. According to the Black Voices, Harris was on a book tour promoting his 11th novel, “Basketball Jones,” about a pro basketball player and his gay lover. Some of Harris’s books include his debut “Invisible Live,” […]

(Washington, DC)  —  The DC Council has passed a resolution to open an investigation into Marion Barry’s questionable hiring of his then-girlfriend to a contract postion.   Attorney Robert Bennett will head up the independent investigation.  Council member Barry faces allegations that he gave Donna Watts-Brighthaupt a city contract, but the woman did not do […]

VIA NEWSONE.COM: WASHINGTON – Praising and prodding Congress, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said a vast reform of the nation’s health insurance system is required to head off instability to families, industry and the government itself. “Deferring reform is nothing more than defending the status quo — and those who would oppose our efforts should […]

See what you missed at the 19th Annual Stone Soul Picnic.