12-06-05 EURxtra: Dave Chappelle Shows Pieced Together / Jay-Z's Family Issues

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FOXY BROWN’S ASSAULT CASE ADJOURNED TILL DEC. 23: Rapper’s hearing loss is blamed.
*Foxy Brown’s assault case, stemming from an incident at a Manhattan nail salon, was adjourned until Dec. 23 Monday after her lawyer disclosed that the rapper is almost totally deaf. Read Full Story

COMEDY CENTRAL TO PIECE TOGETHER NEW CHAPPELLE SEASON: Network to air unseen skits for third season.
*Those handful of skits that Dave Chappelle filmed for the third season of his Comedy Central show before suddenly flying off to South Africa will be collected and aired in what the network is calling season three of “Chappelle’s Show.” Read Full Story

BEYONCE, LATIFAH, OPRAH HONOR TINA TURNER: Singer showered with love during Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors ceremony.
*Queen Latifah sang “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” Beyonce Knowles shook her way through “Proud Mary” and Melissa Etheridge belted out “River Deep, Mountain High” in a musical tribute to Tina Turner Sunday during the annual Kennedy Center Honors held in Washington D.C. Read Full Story

R. KELLY, CIARA TO ROCK TONIGHT’S BILLBOARD AWARDS: Pyro flames boost Ciara’s planned medley; Kelly to perform song from Katrina relief LP.
*Tonight’s Billboard Music Awards will feature yet another medley from Ciara in a set that includes “Goodies,” “1, 2 Step” and a lot of pyrotechnic choreography to keep your eyes busy. Read Full Story

DIDDY MEETS WITH TEEN CANCER PATIENT: Mogul surprises 17-year-old through Make-A-Wish Foundation.
*While 17-year-old Chalon Keen of Sunrise, Florida has spent the last two years fighting a form of cancer that creates tumors in her muscle cells, a brief and welcome distraction from the battle happened Saturday when her idol Diddy appeared before her very eyes. Read Full Story

MARIAH, KANYE, YOLANDA WIN XM AWARDS: Satellite radio company polls listeners; winners chosen from 1.4 million votes.
*XM Satellite Radio announced Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Yolanda Adams and B.B. King among the winners of the first annual XM Nation Music Awards. Read Full Story

JIGGA’S LA FAMILIA ISSUES: Mogul has residue from early family drama surrounding his father.
*Jay-Z tells Rolling Stone magazine that some personal family issues left him distrustful of women, and therefore, a bit altar-shy when it comes to marriage. Read Full Story

RED CROSS TRYING TO RECRUIT MORE MINORITIES: Move follows charges of racism during Hurricane Katrina aftermath.
*During the chaos and heartache following Hurricane Katrina, which saw thousands of displaced Gulf Coast residents fleeing to Red Cross shelters set up throughout the region, many minorities filed complaints of callous treatment from the organization’s mostly white volunteers. Read Full Story

MARSALIS, CONNICK TEAM FOR ‘MUSICIANS’ VILLAGE’: Habitat for Humanity project aims to house displaced musicians.
*Habitat for Humanity and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, working with Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. (honorary chairs of the organization's hurricane rebuilding program, Operation Home Delivery) have announced plans to build a "Musicians' Village" in the Crescent City to help ease the return of displaced New Orleans jazz, blues and Dixieland musicians. Read Full Story

EUR REVIEW: THE COLOR PURPLE (ON BROADWAY): The brilliance still shines through
Set in rural Georgia in the early 1900s, this poignant tale is about a young poor black girl who struggles to try and make sense of her life by talking to God. She is raped repeatedly by the man she thinks is her father and is now pregnant with their second child. With her mother ill and close to death, Celie has the overwhelming burden at age 14 of taking care of her siblings and the household. Celie gives birth twice, each time her father heartlessly takes the babies away and she fears kills them. Read Full Story

ABDUL CRAFTS EXERCISE VIDEO AROUND CHEERLEADING: Former Laker Girl going back to her roots with ‘Cardio Cheer.’
*A press release for “Cardio Cheer,” a new exercise series from former Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader Paula Abdul, says the five-disc DVD collection “is for the millions of girls of all ages who dream of making their school's cheer squad, improving their dancing, or those who just want to claim a leaner, stronger, more toned body.” Read Full Story

FILM/TV BITS: Twins coming for Bassett?; Blige to play Simone; Rashad’s ‘NBA Access’; Brandy on WB; Denzel donates.
*Extra TV is reporting that Angela Bassett and her husband Courtney B. Vance are expecting twins through a surrogate mother, who’s about to give birth any time. Read Full Story

MUSIC BITS: Kanye's 'Free U.'; M1's solo debut; Reebok signs Daddy Yankee' new Mike Jones; B.G. in G-Unit; Justin's voice.
*His debut album may have been called “The College Dropout,” but Kanye West is now trying to encourage students to go to college via the Free U. Giveaway, a nationwide sweepstakes where a $150,000 prize will be awarded to put toward the cost of a four-year college education. Read Full Story

EVENT CALENDAR: South African Airways promotion; hip hop meets gospel at Atlanta’s TSOHH event; Williams Sister tour stops in D.C.
*South African Airways has announced transatlantic roundtrip fares from the United States to South Africa beginning as low as $1,085 per person (excluding taxes), during African-American History month, February 2006. Read Full Story

THE EURweb FREE-4-ALL PAGE/BOARD: Talk about the stories we didn't cover in this issue.
Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn't cover in today's issue. (It's sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. Read Full Story

12-06-05 EUR FEEDBACK: Why Aren't We Boycotting 'King Kpng?' / Irked By Joseph C. Phillips
"Why isn't anyone talking about boycotting the King Kong movie? I'm old enough to remember why black man where portrayed as the beast who came out of the jungle to protect the white woman and how the white man recaptured, killed him to get back the white woman." Read Full Story

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