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Justice Department Head Eric Holder to Brief Black Pastors on Campaigning for Obama

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 29, 2012 at 3:38pm

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Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election -- which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama's campaign.

 
 
"We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 million people, and we're going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501c3 status with the IRS," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., told MSNBC today.
"In fact, we're going to have the IRS administrator there, we're going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we're going to have the lawyers' organization from around the country, the ACLU -- all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do," he noted.
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"The Avengers" Success Forces Paramount Pictures to Delay "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" Debut

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 24, 2012 at 7:10pm

 
 
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Just a month before its June release in the U.S., Paramount Pictures delayed the debut of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" by nine months after another movie based on a Hasbro plaything was trounced at the box office by "The Avengers."
Paramount on Wednesday pushed back the release of the "G.I. Joe" sequel from June 29 until March 29, 2013, in order to adapt the movie for 3-D screens, according to Paramount's executive vice president of publicity, Katie Martin Kelley.
The move comes after "Battleship," based on the Hasbro board game, debuted at No. 2 at the North American box office with $25.5 million in ticket sales, behind the still-strong "Avengers," which brought in a whopping $55.6 million in its third weekend of release.
Action films often get most of their revenue from 3-D showings, which cost a few dollars more per ticket and can boost a movie's prospects to make its money back.
March has proven to be a big month for movies because there's a lack of big-budget competition, according to Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office division of Hollywood.com. This March, "The Hunger Games" premiered on March 12 and went on to make $629 million worldwide.
"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" also suffered from a lack of strong buzz online, according to Ben Carlson, president of market tracking firm Fizziology.

SOURCE: The Associated Press
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'Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt' Movie, Based on Anne Rice Novel, Back on Track for 2013 Release

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 24, 2012 at 7:03pm
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The author's 'Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt' is back on track, slated for 2013.
We've all wondered what Jesus was like as a boy. All we know is that he "grew up healthy and strong" and was "filled with wisdom, and God's favor was on him" (Luke 2:40).
Novelist Anne Rice has wondered about it too, so she did a lot of research and wrote Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005), imagining Jesus at the ages of 7-8. The story has "movie" written all over it, and after a number of fits and starts, it's finally coming to fruition, slated for release sometime in 2013. Rice originally had a movie deal with Good News Holdings, but that fell apart in 2009, and the project was shelved indefinitely. But after watching The Stoning of Soraya M, Rice felt like she'd found the right person to bring her story to the silver screen: American writer-director Cyrus Nowrasteh.
Rice, who has had other books (most notably 1994's Interview with a Vampire) turned into films, told CT that she thought Soraya M was "beautifully written and directed. The film was restrained and eloquent and simple. It had a profound impact." She had just written a review at Amazon.com when her agent called to say that Nowrasteh was interested in Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. Says Rice, "I thought, Here is a fine director and someone who knows the Middle Eastern milieu. I was immediately interested."
Nowrasteh, who will direct, partnered with his wife, Betsy, on the script. Casting has not yet begun--Nowrasteh says finding a young boy for the lead role "is not as easy as it might seem"--and filming will likely begin later this year. The movie will be produced by 1492 Pictures, founded by Chris Columbus and the studio behind three Harry Potter films, The Help, and many more.
Of Rice's novel, Nowrasteh says, "I love the book. It's written with real passion and heart and belief. It's one of the most original fresh conceits at the heart of the story of Jesus. We tried to be faithful to it in the script." He adds that Rice's book is perfect for a film adaptation. "We're immersed both in a gritty ancient world and yet transported into the dreamy imaginings of a child filled with wonder, beauty and miracles," he says. "It's a beautiful and faith-affirming story."
Rice agrees about her novel's natural fit for the big screen: "I think the book is very visual and will make a very entertaining and gripping movie. I tend to write cinematically, telling the story through scenes both great and small, and moving from one dramatic encounter to another."
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You Say You Want An Android Phone For The Low? T-Mobile (Huawei) Prism on sale now for $20

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 23, 2012 at 6:10pm

 
 
T-Mobile (Huawei) Prism on sale now for

Need an Android phone for not much dough? Live in a reliable T-Mobile 3G area? Then you might want to consider the “T-Mobile” Prism, Huawei’s latest de-branded device for the American carrier. The Prism is low-end in every sense of the word, but that doesn’t necessarily mean bad and the low-end is moving forward nearly as fast as flagship devices are. The biggest improvement here is the 3.5-inch 480×320 touchscreen, markedly larger and sharper than the 3.2-inch screens that typify the category.

 

Other specs include a 600mhz processor, a 3.2 megapixel rear camera (no front-facing cam) and an empty MicroSD card slot. The software is Gingerbre…

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WATCH: Parents Disagree with FAMU Desposition saying that Their Son Wanted to be Hazed

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 23, 2012 at 6:00pm

hcsp.jpgA Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus asked to go through the ordeal because it was seen as an honor, a criminal defendant in the case said in a deposition released Wednesday. 
 


 
Twenty-six-year-old Robert Champion (pictured right) had asked all season to go through the hazing ritual, defendant Jonathan Boyce said.
"It's a respect thing, you know," Boyce told detectives. "Well, he was wanting to do it all ... all season."
Champions' parents have said their son was a vocal opponent of the routine hazing in the band.
In an interview earlier this year, Champion's father, Robert Sr., said the reason his son was hazed was because of his opposition to it.
Prosecutors are releasing more than 1,500 pages of evidence against the 13 people charged in Champion's death last year. Eleven defendants are charged with a third-degree felony and two are charged with misdemeanors.
FAMU's famed Marching 100 band was suspended shortly after the incident, and officials have said it will remain sidelined at least through the 2012-2013 school year.
The school also tried to fire band director Julian White, whose dismissal was placed on hold while the criminal investigation unfolded, but he insisted that he did nothing wrong and fought for months to get reinstated. He announced his retirement earlier this month.
Source: The AP
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Will Smith Says Daughter, Willow, Will Star In Modernized Film Version of Musical "Annie"

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 23, 2012 at 5:27pm

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Actress Willow Smith attends the Premiere Of Sundance Selects' 'First Position' at Aero Theatre on April 22, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. (Valerie Macon/Getty Images)
It's official: the Smith family is ready for another big screen close-up.
In an interview with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts, on Wednesday, Will Smith confirmed that the youngest of the Smith clan, Willow, 11, would be following in her parents and older brother Jayden's (The Karate Kid) footsteps, with a starring role in the modernized film version of the 1982 musical Annie. 
Will Smith, who is slated to produce the Sony Pictures project, also confirmed to Good Morning America that his Men In Black 3 co-star, Oscar winner Emma Thompson, wrote the script for the contemporary Annie film. 
The film will be set in modern-day New York and will feature a host of new updated songs. Hip-hop, mogul, and hit maker Jay-Z is in charge of the music and is expected to write new musical tracks for the soundtrack.  Jay-z is not new to re-imagining Annie tracks.  His 1998 hit single "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" featured samples from the Broadway musical version.
Willow told People magazine in 2011 that she wanted Brad Pitt to star as her adoptive father, Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.  The rest of the cast has yet to be announced and they are still looking for a production team as Annie is set to begin filming in 2013.
"We're looking for directors so the management will come up with a director in the next week or two weeks," Thompson told the BBC.
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Rihanna's Pastor Worried Star Will End Up Like Whitney Houston

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 23, 2012 at 5:03pm
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Rihanna's preacher is so worried that the young star will end up dead at a young age like Whitney Houston after recent reports suggest the star is going over the rails with her hardcore partying.
Bishop Vibert Lowe, who was a childhood mentor to Rihanna has told Now magazine that it's not only him that's worried about the 'You Da One' star.
The 64-year-old told the magazine: "I'm very concerned. We all are." RiRi, 24, has been putting in the hours on the dancefloor recently, hitting up nightclubs and strip clubs, and jetting around the world.
She recently ended up in hospital, hooked up to an IV drip reportedly due to a bad case of the flu, leaving her 'Navy' very worried.
But even this week, Rihanna stunned her fans when she revealed that she was still so drunk one morning that she missed her flight out of London.
"She's going the wrong way," he said. "When I saw the hospital picture I was so disturbed. "She's drunk a lot, she's smoking a lot... It's really bad behaviour and she's getting worse. She could head down the same route as Whitney Houston. She promotes a bad girl image and that's not responsible 
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Lecrae blogs "Church Clothes - Purpose, Passion, Progression"

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 22, 2012 at 8:37pm


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Reach Records artist/co-owner Lecrae recently wrote a response to the "Christian rapper" controversy and more. Here's what he had to say:

The truth is God is still at work! 

Thanks to everyone who is downloading and spreading the "Church Clothes" mixtape. 

I'm blown away at the response. It’s humbling and pushes me to keep going. 

 Back at the beginning of my music, my intention then and now was to enrich and give hope to the listener. I was volunteering at a halfway house and the young men embraced hip hop music that encouraged their low ideals and detrimental perspective. Over the years some, due to their new found faith in God, had their ideals changed and now had few musical offerings.

 There were always Christians doing hip hop but the music was usually inaccessible or unpopular.  I would listen to the radio and wonder where was the Christians perspective being heard in Hip Hop culture? Not the radio. "Contemporary Christian music" had developed, "Gospel" had its lane but where was hip-hop that articulated faith in Jesus? Hard to find.

 Interestingly enough those genres are the only one's categorized based off the content and not the style of music. Though it gives people identifying marks for their music it can also in many ways limit their reach. Many people take these titles to mean this is for an exclusively Christian audience. If indeed the true Gospel is what transforms people outside the faith why should the term Gospel seem exclusively for those in the faith? Of course that's not the intention, it's just a reality that any missionary should consider. 

 As far as hip hop done well by Christians, there were always a few groups & artists each year that helped ease my woes but I was not at all content. The general market was flooded with Hip Hop artists but I rarely heardanything that embodied a worldview that God would endorse. 

 Trying to be a part of the solution, I took to the studio and recorded an Album. It captured my southern roots, love for lyricism, and I tried to make it as current in production as I could. (I produced most of it.) The result was a tool for my fellas at the half way house and other areas with similar struggles.

 That project opened doors for me to travel a bit, mostly prisons, churches, and inner city outreaches, and perform my songs. I found that I had a gift for catalyzing people toward truth and creating anthems for Christians to live sacrificially and unashamedly for their faith. 

 Personally I couldn’t simply talk about change I had to be apart of it so I spent my life living in the inner city, doing foreign missions, and serving in the local church. All was ammunition for my Rebel album. My life bled out in that project and the result was God showing tremendous fruit and people's lives being transformed by His power.

 One problem I faced was that in my hood, only the kids in after school programs and the Christians were feeling it. Sure some were rejecting the Gospel but others didn't give it a spin at all due to the labels placed on it.  

I was respected by my non-religious friends, but my music to them was very limited and didn't speak to any areas of life other than salvation and living right.  I sought advice and was led to books by people like Francis

Shaffer, CS Lewis, and others. I was challenged in more ways than you can imagine. (There are links below.)

 Desperate to help the lost, broken, and hurting, I tried building relationships with my newfound understanding. It was difficult and awkward but, God showed me plenty of grace.

 People came to Jesus and grew deeply, and I found I was liberated and matured in ways I could not articulate. 

 I'm starting to get it. God hasn't changed my vision, He's expanded it. 

 Only 4% of all Americans have a biblical worldview and only 10% of Christians see the world with a biblical lens. (There's a test link below to check ya self!)  

 We tend to have bifocals half seeing things as spiritual and half seeing things as secular or non spiritual.

 We limit spirituality to salvation and sanctification. As long as we are well versed in personal piety and individual salvation, we think we're good. But most Christians have no clue how to engage culture in politics, science, economics, TV, music, or art. We tend to leave people to their own devices there.

We subscribe to views like "politics, and movies are evil or of the devil" and we don’t touch them. Which actually leaves them to be dominated by non-biblical worldviews. Or since we don’t have a philosophy or filter we do it the way culture says to, chasing vain ambition. 

 Most professing Christians have no idea how to direct their careers with biblical lenses but, instead of praying for and offering solutions we usually just shake our head and dismiss these “sellouts & compromisers”.

 We are missing out on the gospels power of redemption and glorification in all things. 

 The whole idea of a secular/sacred divide was born because ancient Greeks (specifically Plato) thought matter (or things) was preexisting and eternal. They thought matter contained the ability to resist the Gods or just God. making it evil. But as Christians we defeat that claim with the doctrine that only God is preexisting and eternal. He is the source of ALL creation.

 PSALM 24:1 “The Earth is the Lords and all it contains”

 In Genesis 1 God repeats his creation is good, meaning no part of creation is inherently bad or evil.

 Paul in 1 Tim 4:4 says, “Everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

 I can already hear people saying, so pornography and crack is good if embraced with thanksgiving!? Obviously no. The origin of objects and God's intended function are what's good, it's man's direction that distorts them. So the origin and function of sex is good but the depravity of man to direct and distort it into pornography is a manifestation of man's darkened heart. 

 Is there such a thing as evil music?  Well the artist’s heart may be evil and because of that you are hearing their heart. Matt 12:34 says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The heart is the problem not the music. Changed hearts produce changed music. 

 When Adam and Eve rebelled, they sinned. The trees didn’t sin, the ground didn’t sin, humanity sinned. The natural world was however, affected by human sin. Humans were the housekeepers of Gods creation their sin had a ripple affect into the natural world.

 Humanity had authority and there is a consequence for authority. If the owner of a house is lazy the house is going to catch the effect of his laziness. It’s going to look ragged and filthy. It’s not that the house wants to look ugly or creepy but the people’s sin has affected it. Even if good things fall to the depravity of people.

 Evil and disorder are not intrinsic, built in or inherent in material things like art, or dance, or alcohol. The heart is wicked the Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9. We take those things and distort them. The human will and volition are rebellious and wrong. 

 So Paul writes in Romans 14:14 nothing is unclean itself. It becomes unclean when sinners use it to express their rebellion towards God. Then line between good and bad is not in the thing, the music, the movie, the politics, but in the heart.

 A butcher knife is usually depicted as an evil murderous tool. But God made the ore and wood and man can use it to make a knife that cuts food and feeds people.

 A skull is typically viewed as evil and demonic because humanity has directed there, but God made skulls. We all have them and they are VERY good. They protect our brains! So wearing a skull on your shirt and it doesn’t make you less a Christian even though society has given it negative associations.

 All this to say the "secularizing" of things or music would be more the hearts intention on not painting a picture that God would endorse. After all food, music, school buildings are just things. They don’t have a soul or mind and can’t have intentions. The people who are involved in them do.

 Worldliness does not mean engaging culture, its when the culture shapes your thoughts over God. Jesus prayed we would remain in the world but protected. He also tells us the gates of Hell will not prevail against us. Gates were established to protect cities and for the gates not to prevail would mean we are trying to storm them. We are here to engage culture not run from it.

 Wrestling with worldly ideas challenges us and gives us new ways todepend on God. Is this my new direction? No, it’s just an expansion on what I’ve already been doing.

 Will I continue to write songs like Don't Waste Your Life, or Go Hard? ABSOLUTELY!  But after seeing how powerfully God is using my latest efforts I will also write songs to engage culture and speak to things that humanity in general will wrestle with and think on.

 So thank you for supporting me and helping the success of the mission and vision.  I’m not concerned at all with being a "star", I got in this to bring hope and thats how I'm going out. 

Love y'all 

Lecrae 

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Where Do the Lakers Go From Here?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 22, 2012 at 8:32pm
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The Lakers likely will need to break up their frontcourt of Pau Gasol (left) and Andrew Bynum in order to upgrade around Kobe Bryant. (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
An optimist might look at the Lakers-Thunder series and come away thinking about how close Los Angeles is to championship contention. 
The middle three games of Oklahoma City's five-game win in the Western Conference semifinals were all close, and with better crunch-time execution, the Lakers could have won all three and be headed home for a chance to close the deal in Game 6.
But that's the wrong way to look at things, and the Lakers know it internally. The other two games were Oklahoma City runaways, and mixing blowout losses with down-to-the-wire contests is no way to win a playoff series. Luck, fatigue and randomness will inevitably swing a crunch-time game or two against you, and given the taxing load that the Lakers' three best players carried all season, fatigue surely played a role in late collapses during Game 2 and Game 4 -- the latter forever known as the game in which Kobe Bryant went completely off the rails, and then threw a long-tenured champion teammate under the bus.
This team was never a real championship contender. The Lakers had the sixth-best point differential among Western Conference teams, and they just couldn't function as an elite club on both ends of the floor. They struggled to score in the first half of the season, checking in as a league-average offense. The March trade for point guard Ramon Sessions goosed the offense, but the defense collapsed over the final 20 games, surrendering points at a rate that would have made it the NBA's worst for the full season. Sessions, among the worst defenders in the league for his position, didn't help, but he alone cannot explain a team playing top-10 level defense for half a season and then hemorrhaging points like the Bobcats for 20 games, plus the playoffs.
The Lakers were just never that good, and their top three pieces don't mesh as well as they used to, given the lack of talent and outside shooting around them. According to NBA.com's stats tool, the Lakers outscored opponents by only 2.8 points per 100 possessions with Bryant, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum on the floor together. That's a very low number for a star-studded trio on a decent team. And when you scan the team's lineup data, what jumps out is the fact that no combination of two, three or four players did much to transform the Lakers. Most teams have duos or trios that result in dramatically improved (or worsened) play on one or both ends of the floor, but the numbers for every relevant Lakers combination basically hover around the same "good but not good enough" area, indicating that the foundation here is rotten.
The Lakers now have to ask if the Bryant/Gasol/Bynum trio is inherently limited because of Bryant's declining skills, Gasol's masquerading as L.A.'s Brandon Bass and Bynum's now-and-then effort issues, or if that core would work better if the Lakers nail a couple of transactions on the fringes. They need shooting and speed -- wow, do they need speed -- in addition to finding a way to convince Bryant that he does not need the ball all of the time on the perimeter. The Sessions trade was supposed to help that process along; it ultimately failed.
In short: We have two seasons' worth of evidence now suggesting that this team is not a real contender -- not with the Thunder still growing, the Spurs sustaining greatness and teams in Denver, Memphis and the other one at Staples Center rising around the Lakers.
The question now is how to change that. Any prescription must begin with the sobering reality that the collective bargaining agreement offers the Lakers almost nothing with which to work. Acquiring a meaningful free agent will be very difficult, which means the Lakers will almost inevitably have to trade either Gasol or Bynum to upgrade the roster around Bryant. Salvation isn't coming via the draft, either, because the Lakers traded their 2012 first-round pick to the Cavaliers for Sessions and sent a future first-round pick -- which was acquired from Dallas in the Lamar Odom deal -- to Houston in the Derek Fisher trade. They also gave Cleveland, which has its own first-round pick as well as Miami's in the 2013 draft, the right to swap any of its picks with the Lakers' selection next year. That's a nice little get for the Cavs, who will almost surely jump up a half-dozen or so draft spots because they can send the Heat's pick to the Lakers.
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Marvel Comics to Feature Same-Sex Wedding for First Openly Gay Hero

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 22, 2012 at 8:29pm
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This comic book cover image released by Marvel shows "Astonishing X-Men," No 51, due out June 20. (AP/Marvel Comics)
This summer, wedding bells will ring for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero.
The New York-based publisher said Tuesday that Canadian character Jean-Paul Beaubier - also known as the super speedster Northstar - will marry his beau, Kyle Jinadu, in the pages of "Astonishing X-Men" No. 51, due out June 20.
Northstar revealed he was gay in the pages of "Alpha Flight" No. 106 in 1992. He was one of Marvel's first characters to do so. Since then, numerous comic book heroes and villains have been identified as gay, lesbian or transgender.
Marjorie Liu is writing the series. She says the decision to have the pair marry was fitting, noting that the relationship between Kyle and Northstar has grown in recent years.
The news comes as DC Comics is reportedly planning to have one of its own characters come out. According to BleedingCool.com, DC co-founder Dan DiDio told attendees at the Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday that an existing DC character who was previously straight will be introduced as "one of our most prominent gay characters."
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High School Graduate Gets Diploma Taken Away for Tebowing

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 22, 2012 at 8:26pm
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As Chuck Shriner crossed the stage on Saturday during Bishop Verot's graduation ceremony, he suddenly paused, dropped to one knee, and Tebow-ed his principal.
Tebowing, the practice of publicly taking a knee in prayer, made famous by former University of Florida Gator, and now New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow, is sweeping the country one YouTube video and Instagram photo at a time.
Shriner, 17, a football player at the private Fort Myers Catholic school, didn't expect his trendy moment on stage to end in punishment and without his diploma in hand. But it did.
"I just thought it was fun," Shriner said. "I was just doing it to make graduation memorable."
While the audience -- parents and students alike -- erupted into laughter, administration was quick to reprimand. Not with rulers, or a dunce cap, however.
The Fort Myers teen, who will be attending University of Central Florida in the fall to study mechanical engineering, was told he wouldn't be receiving his diploma because of his antics.
"They said what I did would give underclassmen inspiration to do something else, that it might lead to something else," Shriner said about the administration's reaction. "So they were trying to set an example."
After some parents shook his hand and friends celebrated his act, he was told he would be cleaning the school's gym, where graduation was held, and administration would discuss the possibility of giving him his diploma.
"Moment in my life I'll never forget, getting my diploma taken away for doing the Tebow on stage in front of (Principal John) Cavell. So worth it," Shriner posted on his Facebook page that day.
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'A Fire Will Rise': New Theatrical Poster, Character Banners for "The Dark Knight Rises" Released

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 22, 2012 at 8:19pm
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Christian Bale stands tall as Batman in the third exclusive banner. Bale has gone on record as saying this will be his final outing as the Caped Crusader, which has led some to wonder if Bruce Wayne will survive his ultimate battle. The tagline on the poster -- "The Legend Ends" -- seems pretty definitive that this chapter will be the last, but in the image Batman sure looks like he isn't leaving without a fight. (Yahoo! Movies)
A new theatrical poster is adding fuel to the promotional fire for "The Dark Knight Rises."
The image, released Monday, shows Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader in front of a crumbling Gotham City, with flames igniting a silhouette of the Batman symbol.
The text reads simply, "A fire will rise."
That was followed by the debut of a trio of character banners on Tuesday. The posters feature Batman, Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) and Bane (Tom Hardy), facing the camera as debris rains down on them. Behind each character is the word "Rise," in a large, bold font. You can see those images at Yahoo Movies.
"The Dark Knight Rises" arrives in theaters on July 20. Along with Bale, Hathaway and Hardy, the film also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman.
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Sprint HTC Evo 4G LTE to be in customers’ hands on or around May 24

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 21, 2012 at 6:22pm

 
Sprint HTC Evo 4G LTE to be in customers hands on or around May 24

The wait for the HTC Evo 4G LTE is soon to be over. After being delayed at U.S. Customs due to ban imposed by the US ITC, the phone is set to start shipping for arrival on or around May 24, 2012.

Since Sprint says that the first batch of phones will should expected on or around May 24, that means that the phones will most likely shipa day or two prior to that date. According to Sprint, people who pre-ordered the device online would be the first ones to receive it. Unfortunately, for the rest of us who didn’t pre-order, no specific nationwide launch date was made available. <b…

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No More 'Game' for Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall. What Are Your Thoughts?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 16, 2012 at 6:14pm

Pooch Hall and Tia Mowry also known as The Game's Derwin and Melanie Barnett-Davis, will not be returning next season.

Those of us who like The Game may be in for an upset when the new season starts.  Thenew season will focus on more losses from the cast. The first loss from the team was Kelly Pitts (played by Brittney ), with her divorce from Jason Pitts (played by Coby Bell) which left many wondering why…the same will apply with the new cuts from the team.

Bossip is reporting that BET didn’t come up with the checks for two of the shows centralcharacters, Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall who play Melanie Barnett-Davis and Derwin Davis.  Another media outlet, Diggin in the Crates, placed the tweet from Tia in their report:


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Is Lecrae's "Church Clothes" Is His Best Work Yet?

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 14, 2012 at 7:01pm
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With some new mainstream hip-hop eyes and ears now open to Lecrae, he drops the Don Cannon-hosted Church Clothes to show the music behind the hype...
As an MC that openly describes himself as a Christian, Lecrae has begun to face an upward battle in growing his career. Religion is a topic that most rhymeslingers stay from and in this age of rappers talking sex, money and drugs, so an MC that links himself with religious beliefs (beyond a Jesus or cross namedrop) can have a hard time finding a wide audience. Don't get it twisted, though, 'Crae's base is devout within its demographic. With that as the backdrop, the Reach Records leader drops his Don Cannon-hosted mixtape Church Clothesto show that religion or not, it's all about hip-hop.
Church Clothes is a strong release in that it helps deliver a message without beating the listener over the head with religious propaganda. Tracks such as "Church Clothes and "Cold World" get the message across and provide a good introduction to those that don't know Lecrae. Production wise, Church Clothes absolutely bangs, as 9th Wonder lends his production hand on "Rise" and "Long Time Coming." Interestingly, 9th takes second billing to some of the more unknown producers as tracks such as BIg Juice & Street Symphony ("No Regrets") and Tha Kracken! ("Rejects") steal the show.
Production aside, it doesn't hurt that Lecrae is a talented wordsmith, either, as he shines lyrically throughout the release. It's impressive how he's able to deliver a message without being preachy. Lecrae is an artist on the rise and Church Clothes is a prime example of the reach of hip-hop music and culture.

SOURCE: XXL Mag
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Mase Asks for Prayer Before Return to Hip-Hop

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 14, 2012 at 12:51pm


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From rapper to pastor, back to rapper, Mase has gone through some changes. But he regrets making his way to the pulpit.


 
He retired from the hip hop industry 13 years ago to preach the gospel and eased his way back.
Also known as Mason Betha, the 34 year old shared on a TBN interview that some were worried about him going back to rap, afraid his commitment to the church would waiver.
"Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me," Betha questions. "What I have inside of me is more powerful than anything the world could ever offer me."
Instead of going the entrepreneurial route, Mase went Christian and opened up El Elyon International Church and Mason Betha Ministries in Atlanta.
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Obama Reaches Out to Pastors After Making Homosexual Marriage Decision

Posted by Prince Malachi The First on May 14, 2012 at 12:42pm

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About two hours after declaring his support for same-sex marriage last week, President Obama gathered eight or so African-American ministers on a conference call to explain himself. He had struggled with the decision, he said, but had come to believe it was the right one.
 
The ministers, though, were not all as enthusiastic. A vocal few made it clear that the president's stand on gay marriage might make it difficult for them to support his re-election.
 
"They were wrestling with their ability to get over his theological position,"said the Rev. Delman Coates, the pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md., who was on the call.
In the end, Mr. Coates, who supports civil marriages for gay men and lesbians, said that most of the pastors, regardless of their views on this issue, agreed to "work aggressively" on behalf of the president's campaign. But not everyone. "Gay marriage is contrary to their understanding of Scripture," Mr. Coates said. "There are people who are really wrestling with this."
In the hours following Mr. Obama's politically charged announcement on Wednesday, the president and his team embarked on a quiet campaign to contain the possible damage among religious leaders and voters. He also reached out to one or more of the five spiritual leaders he calls regularly for religious guidance, and his aides contacted other religious figures who have been supportive in the past.
The damage-control effort underscored the anxiety among Mr. Obama's advisers about the consequences of the president's revised position just months before what is expected to be a tight re-election vote. While hailed by liberals and gay-rights leaders for making a historic breakthrough, Mr. Obama recognized that much of the country is uncomfortable with or opposed to same-sex marriage, including many in his own political coalition.
The issue of religious freedom has become a delicate one for Mr. Obama, especially after the recent furor over an administration mandate that religiously affiliated organizations offer health insurance covering contraceptives. After complaints from Catholic leaders that the mandate undercut their faith, Mr. Obama offered a compromise that would maintain coverage for contraception while not requiring religious organizations to pay for it, but critics remained dissatisfied.
In taking on same-sex marriage, Mr. Obama made a point of couching his views in religious terms. "We're both practicing Christians," the president said of his wife and himself in the ABC News interview in which he discussed his new views. "And obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others."
He added that what he thought about was "not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf but it's also the golden rule, you know? Treat others the way you would want to be treated."
After the interview, Mr. Obama hit the phones. Among those he called was one of the religious leaders he considers a touchstone, the Rev. Joel C. Hunter, the pastor of a conservative megachurch in Florida.
"Some of the faith communities are going to be afraid that this is an attack against religious liberty," Mr. Hunter remembered telling the president.
"Absolutely not," Mr. Obama insisted. "That's not where we're going, and that's not what I want."
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SOURCE: The New York Times

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