By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- At the celebration of Michael Jackson’s 30th anniversary as a solo artist, in September 2001, Houston arrived stick-thin, with the bones in her clavicle showing, a walking advertisement for the evils of drug ab ...
Posted Wednesday, May 30th 2012 at 7:35PM
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By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- Every time Whitney was down, she would turn to the Lord. Even during her final days, in Los Angeles, she spoke about God frequently, praying in a nightclub with recording artist El DeBarge, with whom she shared ...
Posted Wednesday, May 30th 2012 at 7:34PM
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By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- A week after Houston’s death, Narada Michael Walden, who produced many of her hits, including “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),” is channeling Whitney over the telephone, conjur ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 10:56PM
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By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- She’d never been one to take serious care of her voice, unlike Celine Dion, who “wouldn’t speak for 24 hours before we were going to record,” says Foster, who produced many of both singers’ hits. “Whitney, even ...
Posted Tuesday, May 29th 2012 at 10:55PM
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By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- It was all about the voice, “the voice of our time,” as the songwriter Diane Warren once called it. The gospel singer BeBe Winans first heard it when Whitney was opening for the singer Jeffrey Osborne. “I went ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 8:23PM
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By MARK SEAL, VANITY FAIR, June 2012 -- “During her early hit years, Houston did few interviews,” Out magazine reported in a 2000 interview with her. “Music-industry insiders suggest that Davis limits the media’s access to Houston because of the dis ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 8:21PM
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BY DAVID BLIGHT, History Professor, Yale University -- Americans understand that Memorial Day, or "Decoration Day," as my parents called it, has something to do with honoring the nation's war dead. It is also a day devoted to picnics, road races, com ...
Posted Monday, May 28th 2012 at 11:19AM
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Ooh
it's so good, it's so good
it's so good, it's so good
it's so good
Ooh
heaven knows, heaven knows
heaven knows, heaven knows
heaven knows
Ooh
I feel love, I feel love
I feel love, I feel love
I feel love
I feel love, I fee ...
Posted Saturday, May 26th 2012 at 10:13PM
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On January 27, 1991–10 days into the Persian Gulf War—Whitney Houston took the field at Tampa Stadium during Super Bowl XXV and performed "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER” before 73,813 fans, 115 million viewers in the United States and a worldwide televisi ...
Posted Saturday, May 26th 2012 at 10:11PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, May 23, 2012 — For decades at the White House, photographs of the president at work and at play have hung throughout the West Wing, and each print soon gives way to a more recent shot. But one picture of President Obama remains after ...
Posted Thursday, May 24th 2012 at 8:33AM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, May 23, 2012 -- This is what Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has to show for two months of writing emails and nearly a week of nationwide ridicule in his investigation of President Obama’s birth certificate: a single sheet ...
Posted Thursday, May 24th 2012 at 8:26AM
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POLITIFACT, May 16, 2012 -- The Obama campaign aired this ad in several battleground states in May 2012. Months after Newt Gingrich raised Mitt Romney’s record at the private equity firm Bain Capital as an election issue, Barack Obama has taken up t ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 9:12PM
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HUFFINGOTN POST, May 20, 2012 -- The private equity firm co-founded by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “fired a lot of people” to get “prosperity for the rich,” CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said during an appearance on Meet The Press thi ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 5:18PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 20, 2012 -- The latest episode of "Saturday Night Live" took on Al Sharpton, portraying the MSNBC host as someone who just doesn't understand the news.
The show has mocked Sharpton's hosting abilities and his teleprompter flub ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 4:55PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 19, 2012 -- Less than two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his public support for gay marriage, a prominent African-American civil rights organization is following suit.
The National Association for the Advancement ...
Posted Sunday, May 20th 2012 at 11:31AM
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HOLD ON, HELP IS ON THE WAY by Whitney Houston --
When you're down and in despair
Don't be uneasy because he'll be there
Say don't you worry, no don't you fret
The Lord has never, never failed you yet
So hold on, help is on ...
Posted Saturday, May 19th 2012 at 8:03PM
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THINK PROGRESS, May 17, 2012 -- While African Americans are generally less supportive of marriage equality as a whole, a growing number of black leaders and community members have come to embrace the issue since President Obama endorsed the freedom t ...
Posted Thursday, May 17th 2012 at 11:11PM
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I LOOK TO YOU by Whitney Houston
As I lay me down
Heaven hear me now
I’m lost without a cause
After giving it my all
Winter storms have come
And darkened my sun
After all that I’ve been through
Who on earth can I turn to?
Chorus:
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Posted Sunday, May 13th 2012 at 9:50PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- MSNBC's Tamron Hall handily shut down guest Tim Carney on Friday, in an exchange so fiery that she immediately began trending on Twitter.
Hall asked Carney about Mitt Romney's testy reaction to a reporter asking ab ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2012 at 4:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, May 11, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert on Thursday was still “reeling” from President Obama’s announcement this week that “he is gay.”
“I have to assume that’s the reason he supports gay marriage,” Colbert said. But Colbert is a marriage ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2012 at 1:07PM
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WASHINGTON POST, May 10, 2012 — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicur ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2012 at 11:29PM
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THE LAST WORD, May 9, 2012 -- Lawrence O'Donnell discusses President Obama's historic statement affirming support for marriage equality with author Toure, Wshing Post columnist Jonathan Capeheart and political analysts Richard Wolffe.
How will Oba ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2012 at 10:25AM
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POLITICS NATION, May 9, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry reminds us that May 10, 1866 is a date to remember in Civil Rights history. On that day the House of Representatives passed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, granting citizenship to former s ...
Posted Thursday, May 10th 2012 at 10:16AM
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by Sarah Burris, HUFFINGTON POST, May 6, 2012 -- I can break treaties with myself all the time.
You see, I’m one of many Oklahomans — probably like Elizabeth Warren — who grew up hearing stories of my family’s mixed heritage. My grandfather talked ...
Posted Monday, May 7th 2012 at 11:15PM
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NEW YORK TIMES, May 5, 2012 -- Next week is National Teacher Appreciation Week, and, as far as I’m concerned, they don’t get nearly enough.
On Tuesday, the United States Department of Education is hoping that people will take to Facebook and Twitt ...
Posted Sunday, May 6th 2012 at 7:19PM
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