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Tyra Show: Moms Against Spas and Pampering Children 

Contact:  Michelle Niger

Email: michelle.niger@tyratv.com

Antron Brown was a talented sprinter, but he wanted to go even faster. So he turned down an offer to run the 100-meter dash for the track team at Long Island University to pursue a professional career racing motorcycles down a quarter-mile drag strip.

Now integrated schools, Plumerville Segregated All Black School had a  reunion in Plumerville Saturday celebrated former students of an all black school.

Public Advocate Candidate Bill de Blasio receives back lash from his fellow City Councilman Charles Barron.  Charles Barron accuses him of pandering to the black community with campaign ads by using his Black wife.

Tatia Adams Fox has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing for Universal Motown Records, it was announced today by Shanti Das, Executive Vice President of Urban Marketing for Universal Motown Records.

In this new role, Mrs. Adams Fox will be responsible for creating integrated online, branding, and marketing campaigns on behalf of her roster of Universal Motown Records artists, which includes Akon, Kat DeLuna, London, Shontelle, Suai, Sweet Rush, and Michael Jackson: The Remix Suites I-V.

Bankole Thompson wants the country and the world to know that Detroit is down, but not out.

Thompson, the senior editor of the Michigan Chronicle, the state’s oldest African-American newspaper, founded in 1936, said while many acknowledge that Detroit has been hit hard by the recession, local and national mainstream media have played a significant role in portraying a grimmer picture of the city.

According to a "Fact Sheet" which is being passed out at this weekend’s African Festival of the Arts in Chicago, KFC has shown an ugly side of itself in its attempts to market its new grilled "chicken" product.

GlobalHue, the nation`s largest minority-owned marketing firm, has been tapped as the lead marketing firm for the proposed MGM Grand at Aqueduct in Queens, New York, it was announced today by R. Donahue Peebles, the lead developer in the team vying for the right to build New York City's first gaming venue. The team also includes MGM MIRAGE as operator of the facility, Perini Building Company and Harbinger Capital Partners.

"The MGM Grand at Aqueduct will be one of New York`s finest entertainment

A black woman is suing the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, saying she was abruptly fired after complaining that the organization was not reaching out to African-American churches.

A spokesman for the organization didn't comment on the firing, but said the association does extensive outreach and works extensively with African-American and other diverse churches.