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Box Office: Red Tails Soars…

Aging stars had a great weekend at the box office. Liam Neeson — who somehow stole Samuel L. Jackson’s shine as Hollywood’s favorite unlikely action hero — enjoys the top spot this weekend for The Grey, which exceeded expectations and took home $20 million. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise went from couch-jumping career suicide to comeback story

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David Banner Warns African American Stars To Spend Money Wisely

Rapper and entrepreneur David Banner is no stranger to the fame game, but instead of flaunting his fortune, he’s trying to help other rising stars keep their finances in check. In a recent column in Black Enterprise magazine, Banner chronicled his own personal money mishaps in order to warn the black community to use their

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Is ‘The Help’ heroic or stereotyping?

(CNN) – When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People complained about Hattie McDaniel’s portrayal of slave housekeeper Mammy in the 1939 blockbuster film “Gone with The Wind,” the actress is reported to have responded, “I’d rather get paid $700 a week for playing a maid than $7 for being one.” As the film “The