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A daughter of Malcolm X has been sentenced to five years of probation
for stealing the identity of an elderly family friend to run up big credit card bills. Prosecutors say Malikah Shabazz
(shuh-BAHZ') made $55,000 in illegal purchases. South
Sudan Enters the World StageWith the birth of a nation
comes the birth of its embassy. Phil Moore/AFP/Getty ImagesWritten by Emily WaxIt's 9 p.m. and
Sarah Chan's high heels are clacking at top speed across this Woodley Park hotel lobby. She's rushing hundreds of her South
Sudanese brethren into cabs so they won't miss President Salva Kiir, who's speaking at a hotel a mile away.With the birth of a nation comes the birth of its embassy, a powerful
emblem of its legitimacy and an assertion of the country's identity on the world stage. South Sudan will soon officially join
Washington's 190 embassies, and Chan is one of 14 employees working for the fledging mission, whose first big undertaking
is Kiir's mid-December visit here as part of a U.S. government-hosted South Sudan development conference.It was a grand, two-day coming-out party for the world's newest nation,
with a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and meetings with a lineup of elites from Washington's international,
political, diplomatic and aid-and-trade communities.Kiir's
location wasn't announced until the very last minute, a reminder that not everyone was eager to welcome the new country, whose
July 9, 2011, independence redrew the map of the world."Sisters, brothers -- hurry! Our president has arrived! We have to go!" Chan called out.Tonight, Chan commands attention. That's partly because she's the daughter
of Sudan People's Liberation Army commander Chan Dak, who was killed while fighting in the region's long struggle for independence.Newly emerged from a brutal 25-year conflict that killed an estimated
2 million people, South Sudan is still building its foreign diplomatic service. While some of the Washington mission's top
envoys are trained in diplomacy, others, like Chan, are homespun talent.What they lack in polish, they make up for in pathos. Remembering Etta JamesFrom doo-wop to soul to gospel to blues, her 50-year career was the
mature sound track for several generations. Getty Images Music has lost another
icon, the miraculously voiced Etta James, whose sultry soul, going back to the 1950s, provided a mature sound track for several
generations.The 73-year-old singer died Friday, Jan.
20, of complications from leukemia, her friend and manager, Lupe de Leon, told CNN. She would have turned 74 on Jan. 25. Her leukemia was declared incurable in early December, according to a report by the Associated Press. Court records in a probate
case indicated that she also suffered from dementia and kidney failure.Known for her incomparable ballad skills, James could also sing the heck out of the blues, not to mention gospel. The heyday of her music career was in the late 1950s and early 1960s, although after she was
thrust back into the spotlight by the 2008 biopic Cadillac Records, in which her character was played by Beyoncé
Knowles, James had begun to receive the recognition that was long overdue. (Her influence spanned the pop-and-rock spectrum.
Check out young Christina Aguilera singing "Sunday Kind of Love" in 1988.)While
the film, which depicted the rise of Chess Records, didn't put up spectacular numbers at the box office, James' music ("At
Last" in particular) certainly found a new audience and was rescued from the lucrative purgatory of overplay in commercials.
The disassociation of her mega-hit "At Last" from the many products it's been used to sell couldn't have hurt, either.And yet when Beyoncé sang "At Last" as Barack and Michelle
Obama danced at their inaugural ball in 2009, James stepped back into the spotlight for the wrong reason. It was probably
a poor choice of song, given its overuse in advertising, coupled with Desiree Rogers' infamous statement about Obama being
a "brand."James reacted by saying she couldn't "stand Beyoncé" for singing the song she'd been "singing
forever" on "big ol' President Day." This was so unfortunate (not to mention unfair to Beyoncé, who
needed James less than James needed her in terms of contemporary music promotion). It prompted James' son, Donto, to tell CNN a year later that his mother had been suffering from "drug-induced dementia" at the time. As the
singer's health faded, her offspring and her husband battled over control of her $1 million estate.Etta James was born Jamesetta Hawkins (now, there's a cool stage name: the reverse of a real name) in Los Angeles
in 1938 to a 14-year-old single mother, Dorothy Hawkins. James would later claim that her father was the infamous white pool
hustler Rudolph Wanderone, first known as "New York Fats" and later known as "Minnesota Fats" after
the character Jackie Gleason made famous in The Hustler.There is strong circumstantial evidence, not to mention an oral tradition, to back the unusual claim. James' mother
had told her that her father was a white boy, "one of those real slick white boys." The actor Willie Best later confirmed that it was Minnesota Fats. The billiards historian
R.A. Dyer, who has written two books about Wanderone, seems to support the idea. Dyer writes, "In photographs both [Wanderone and James] look startlingly alike with their wide faces,
their tiny tulip mouths, their small but piercing eyes."I don't know if I'd go so far as to co-sign "startlingly" alike, but the plausibility is there. If true,
it's another sad chapter in the long history of mixed-race children in America unacknowledged by their white fathers. But
at least young Jamesetta seemed to have inherited some swagger. But without a father, she surely struggled mightily with her
teenage mother until she was discovered by the great Johnny Otis.Unfortunately, she became close to Best, who gave her the lowdown about her father but who was also someone she
got to know through drug addiction. Heroin plagued her and so many musicians of those years (so memorably captured by Jamie
Foxx in Ray).But her addiction also led
her to be immortalized in what many critics have called one of the best books of 2010 (and best books of many years), the
exceptional memoir Life, by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. (James mentions her respect for Richards in her 1995
memoir The Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story.) Richards memorializes her lovingly in his book, and his statement will surely, along with her music, outlast the Beyoncé controversy:Another great singer and a girl after my own heart -- as well as
my bride in a rock-and-roll "marriage" -- is Etta James. She'd been making records from the early '50s, when she
was a doo-wop singer. She's expanded into every range since then ... Now, Etta had been a junkie. So we found reciprocation
almost immediately ... It takes one look in the eye for one to know another. Incredibly strong, Etta, with a voice that could
take you to hell or take you to heaven. And we hung in a dressing room, and like all ex-junkies, we talked about the junk.
And why did we do this, the usual soul-searching. This culminated in a backstage wedding, which in show business terms is
like, you get married but you're not really married. You exchange vows and stuff, on the top of the backstage stairs. And
she gave me a ring, I gave her a ring, and actually that's where I decided her name's Etta Richards. She'll know what I mean. Obama Croons to Harlem Supporters'
DelightAt the Apollo to raise funds, he treated them
to a little Al Green -- and a pitch for four more years.President Obama (Getty Images)Who knew President
Obama could sing?He caught a sold-out audience of
Democratic supporters off guard last night at the historic Apollo Theater in New York's Harlem community when he broke out
into a bar of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together." Following opening acts by india.arie and Green, President Obama
began his remarks by crooning -- on-key -- "I'm so in love with you." As the gathering of more than 1,500 cheered
with delight, he looked around and noted with a grin that the Apollo's beloved Sandman hadn't come with his hook to shoo the
president offstage.As if. Even if the beloved tap
dancer of Showtime at the Apollo had somehow been resurrected (he died in 2003) to let President Obama know his time
was up, he'd have had to tackle a phalanx of Secret Service agents and an audience that fell solidly in the president's political
base. The racially diverse gathering of uptown movers and shakers had come to see history: the first time a sitting president
has appeared at the Apollo Theater.Democratic Reps.
Charlie Rangel and Jerrold Nadler were among those on hand to enjoy the added treat of an impromptu presidential performance,
which followed a concert featuring india.arie's upbeat set ("There's Hope" and the new "6th Avenue"
were among her selections) and soul legend Green, who kept the crowd on its feet with "I'm Still in Love With You"
and "Let's Stay Together."
Heidi Klum And Seal Divorce Over This 'Deal Breaker,' What's Yours? First Posted: 01/23/2012 2:07 pm
Heidi Klum is leaving Seal, her husband of seven years, but
not for the reason many celebrities split. According to TMZ, individuals close to the couple say infidelity was not to blame, but rather Seal's temper: "Seal's inability to control his anger has become too much for Heidi to take, in no small
part because it's affecting their children." The two were raising four kids together: Leni, 7, from Klum's previous relationship,
Henry, 6, Johan, 5 and Lou, 2. The couple was known
for their public displays of affection, lavish Halloween parties and annual renewal of their marriage vows, so news of the separation was received with shock, the Telegraph reported. If it's true that Seal's temper caused the split, it sounds like anger,
for Klum, was a deal breaker that outweighed her spouse's good points. Dr. Bethany Marshall argued in her 2007 book, "Deal
Breakers," that recognizing what you can't take is a good thing. "Identifying your deal breaker ... holds out the possibility of helping you to understand where the relationship has gone wrong,
what needs to be done in order to make it better, and when to walk away because you're doing more work than him to fix it,"
she wrote. It's worth noting, however, that a person's deal breakers can change based on her experiences, at least according to dating expert April Beyer. Beyer told CBS News
in a 2009 interview: "If you are looking for, at 45, what you were looking for at 25, then you might have a problem."
She identified the most common deal breakers for men as a woman who who is extremely independent (interesting, considering
that TMZ also suggested Klum's entrepreneurial success might be a factor in the split), inflexible, or who doesn't take care of her appearance (probably not the issue here). Women's most common deal breakers, Beyer said, are a man being too frugal, lacking an overall plan, and cheating or lying. Drake
At Sundance: Three Hours Late, Stars Party Hard At Performance First
Posted: 01/22/2012 10:41 am
There was a blizzard in Park City, Utah on Saturday night,
but Drake kept a celeb-packed party blazing hot -- once he was finally able to show up, anyway.It was an internet-favorite extravaganza at the Bing Bar, Microsoft's branded hangout at
the Sundance Film Festival, as the hip hop star headlined a buzzy event that featured the standup comedy of "Parks and
Rec" star Aziz Ansari as his opening act. Ansari
was the victim of a rowdy crowd whose pitch threatened to drown out his act; according to Twitter witnesses, as the crowd began to boo the normally beloved comedian, "Red Tails" star Cuba Gooding
Jr. rushed the stage to admonish the audience.Ansari's
response? "I'm not that upset, Cuba Gooding Jr."The crowd was kept waiting for Drake -- Ansari's publicist, Lewis Kay, tweeted, "Drake is to punctuality as Casey
Anthony is to good parenting" -- and about three hours later than scheduled, the "Degrassi" alum finally arrived.
He had a good excuse, too, telling the crowd, "I almost lost my life 6 times getting here. My flight was delayed 6 hrs. Some of the
curviest roads I've ever been on."Immediately,
his trademark style was critiqued. GQ senior editor Logan Hill tweeted, "Drake arrived at his dundanve party in middle of a near-blizzard and is NOT WEARING A
SWEATER"; Vulture also noted his lack of warm overshirt, but did add that he was wearing a parka.Stars such as "Breaking Bad's" Aaron Paul, Ansari's "Parks and Rec"
co-star Aubrey Plaza, "Man on a Ledge" star Anthony Mackie, and "SNL" alums Will Forte and Chris Kattan
were on hand to revel in the scene; check out the photos of the event below.
State Of The Union Guest List: Michelle Obama Continues A 30-Year Tradition
Of Extraordinary Americans First Posted: 01/24/2012 1:23
pm
When Sara Ferguson, an elementary school teacher from Pennsylvania, and Alicia B. Davis, a General Motors plant
manager from Michigan, join First Lady Michelle Obama in her viewing box during Tuesday's State of the Union Address, they
will be taking part in 30 years of presidential history.Every president since Ronald Reagan has looked up during his speech and into the rafters to give
a shout-out to special invited guests. These guests have included everyday Americans, war heroes, schoolteachers,
celebrities and small business owners."For nearly
three decades, extraordinary Americans who exemplify the themes and ideals laid out in the State of the Union Address have
been invited to join the First Lady in her viewing box," Kevin Lewis, a White House spokesman told The Huffington Post's
Black Voices via e-mail Tuesday morning. Tuesday
night, as President Barack Obama uses his speech to lay out his plan for moving America forward and beyond these tough economic times, he will be joined by Ferguson and Davis, as well as Bryan Ritterby, a lab technician from Grand Rapids, Mich., and Debbie Bosanek, the secretary of multi-billionaire Warren Buffet, who famously proposed "The Buffet Rule," which calls for the wealthiest Americans
to pay their fair share of taxes. Mark Kelly, the former astronaut and husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (R-Ariz.), is also among the president's invited guests. Ferguson, who teaches
literacy and math at Columbus Elementary in Parkside, Pa., is a third generation educator who vowed to continue teaching her
students as the school district faced bankruptcy earlier this year when the state made drastic cuts to education. "We are adults; we will make a way," she said, according to
Lewis, the White House spokesman. "The students don't have any contingency plan. They need to be educated, so we intend
to be on the job."Davis, who was recently appointed
plant manager at General Motors Orion Assembly and Pontiac Stamping, rose through the ranks of General Motors and was the
company's first African American woman to be appointed a general manager when she headed its Arlington assembly plant.Ferguson and Davis are the latest
in a string of African Americans to be honored with a special invitation to the White House during the speech, perhaps more
of an honor under the country's first black president. Last year's black guests included Ursula M. Burns, the CEO of Xerox
Corporation, tapped by the president to help lead a White House campaign on science, technology, engineering and math; and
Brandon Ford of Philadelphia, then a junior at West Philadelphia High School who lead a team of young engineers to the final
rounds of a national automotive engineering contest which pitted them against corporations, universities and other well-funded
organizations.The tradition of inviting everyday Americans to hear the president address the nation during
the State of the Union dates back to 1982 when President Reagan invited Lenny Skutnik, a Congressional Budget Office
employee. Skutnik dove into the icy Potomac River to rescue passengers of a downed airplane.Reagan invited Skutnik to sit with First Lady Nancy Reagan during his speech, and heralded him
for exemplifying "the spirit of American heroism at its finest."The presidential guests have since been called "Skutniks."In the early 1990s, President George H.W. Bush invited Alma Powell and
Brenda Schwarzkoph, whose husbands, Gens. Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkph, were heading up military operations in Iraq.President Bill Clinton invited baseball great Hank Aaron and now-sullied
home run legend Sammy Sosa, as well as Richard Dean, a Social Security Administration employee who searched through the rubble
of the Oklahoma City bombing to rescue survivors.Later,
President George W. Bush also invited war heroes and their families and people who helped thwart terror attacks against the
United States, including a pair of flight attendants who helped foil "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid.Obama has used his invitations to also highlight American heroism, perseverance and ingenuity
during these tough economic times. Last year's guests included Daniel Hernandez, Giffords' former congressional intern, who is
credited with helping to save her life after a shooting in her district. "The guests of the First Lady each have uniquely American stories to tell, and in many cases their
stories highlight not only the challenges we've overcome," Lewis said, "but some of the ways in which we can move
forward together as a nation and create an America built to last."
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