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Rolling Stone announced that Public Enemy and Donna Summer are the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees for 2013.

Beyonce’s next album, due out in 2013, is expected to get a promotion boost. The singer has just signed on to a $50 million deal with PepsiCo, reminiscent of her husband Jay-Z’s “Decoded” book deal that was promoted in part by Microsoft.

At the Keep a Child Alive annual fundraiser gala last night, Grammy-award winning singer songwriter Alicia Keys raised $1.3 million dollars to benefit people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

Pop-star Rihanna has made her way into the television business in the U.S. In 2013, she will launch her own TV show on the Style network.

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has chosen the novel Twelve Tribes of Hattie, written by author Ayana Mathis, 39, as the next read for her Book Club 2.0. The debut novel is about the Great Migration to Philadelphia, told through the voices of one African American family.

Now that Obama is president once more, officials are trying to figure out what to do with his network of people and information.

Hurricane Sandy took a toll on many communities during its wake earlier this month, damaging homes, school and businesses. Some small business owners were met with great, unexpected challenges as to how to get help and where to seek it. That’s when Gregg Bishop stepped in.

According to an article from The Daily Paul, a website apparently affiliated with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, more than forty states have launched petitions to secede from the United States, including some signatories from New York.

If Hurricane Sandy wasn’t a wake up call about the looming dangers of climate change and global warming, then we’re hopelessly lost and nothing can shake us from what appears to be an endless slumber.

The fight this election season became personal, as African Americans in Ohio did everything in their power to preserve the vote.