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  50 Cent
  Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) and The Massacre (2005). Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified 8 times platinum by the RIAA and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. His album The Massacre has been certified 5 times platinum by the RIAA and has sold 11 million copies worldwide.
  http://wn.com/50_Cent
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  Aaron McGruder
  Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974) is an American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African American brothers from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb, as well as being the creator and executive producer of The Boondocks TV series based on his strip. Through the exceptionally intelligent Huey (named after Huey P. Newton) and his younger brother and wannabe gangsta Riley, the strip explores issues involving African American culture and American politics.
  http://wn.com/Aaron_McGruder
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  Adele (singer)
  Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known professionally as Adele (), is an English singer songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards ''Critics' Choice'' and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. She is a multi-Grammy Awards nominee who has won two awards, Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2009.
  http://wn.com/Adele_(singer)
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  Alicia Keys
  Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
  http://wn.com/Alicia_Keys
• Beyoncé
  http://wn.com/Beyoncé
• Cee-Lo Green
  http://wn.com/Cee-Lo_Green
• Chuck D
  Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.
  http://wn.com/Chuck_D
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  Courtney Love
  Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress. Love is primarily known as lead singer, guitarist and lyricist for alternative rock band Hole, as well as for her publicity-ridden marriage to the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.
  http://wn.com/Courtney_Love
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  Dave Chappelle
  David Khari Webber "Dave" Chappelle (; born August 24, 1973) is an American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer and actor. Chappelle began his film career in the film in 1993 and continued to star in minor roles in the films The Nutty Professor, Con Air, and Blue Streak. His first lead role in a film was in Half Baked in 1998. In 2003, he became widely known for his popular sketch comedy television series, ''Chappelle's Show'', which ran until 2006. Comedy Central ranked him forty-third in its list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians.
  http://wn.com/Dave_Chappelle
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  Eminem
  Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
  http://wn.com/Eminem
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  Fergie (singer)
  Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, fashion designer and actress. She was a member of the children's television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. She is the female vocalist for the hip hop group the The Black Eyed Peas with whom she has attained much charting success worldwide. Her own debut album spawned four Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, three of which went to number one.
  http://wn.com/Fergie_(singer)
• Glenn Ligon
  Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, and identity. He engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life.
  http://wn.com/Glenn_Ligon
• Greg Tate
  Greg Tate is an American author who has spent the last two decades formulating a critical language that has redefined African-American cultural theory and writing. An essayist and long time staff writer for The Village Voice, Tate has published widely, with writings on art, music, and culture appearing in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Spin, Artforum, The Nation, and DownBeat, and Africa-based magazines such as Glendora Review and Chimurenga.
  http://wn.com/Greg_Tate
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  Harold Ford, Jr.
  :"Harold Ford" redirects here. For his father, the congressman from Tennessee from 1975 to 1997, see Harold Ford, Sr.
  http://wn.com/Harold_Ford_Jr
• Ice Cube
  '''O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage name Ice Cube''', is an American rapper, actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.
  http://wn.com/Ice_Cube
• J. Cole
  Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985), better known as his stage name J. Cole (often stylized as J.Cole), is an American rapper and producer. He is best known for being the first artist to be signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation.
  http://wn.com/J_Cole
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  Kamala Harris
  Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American attorney, author, and the current District Attorney of San Francisco. She was first elected in 2003, defeating incumbent district attorney Terence Hallinan, and was re-elected in 2007. She is currently a candidate for California Attorney General in the 2010 California state elections. If elected, she would be the first woman and first African-American elected to the office.
  http://wn.com/Kamala_Harris
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  Kanye West
  Kanye Omari West (; born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent productions saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences encompassing '70s R&B;, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synth-pop, and classical music.
  http://wn.com/Kanye_West
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  Kara Walker
  Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
  http://wn.com/Kara_Walker
• Kehinde Wiley
  Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) is a New York-based portrait painter, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban African, African-American, and Afro-Brazilian men in heroic poses.
  http://wn.com/Kehinde_Wiley
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  Kid Rock
  Robert James "Bob" Ritchie (born January 17, 1971), known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter and rapper with five Grammy Award nominations.
  http://wn.com/Kid_Rock
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  KRS-One
  Lawrence Christopher Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage name KRS-One is an American MC and producer. Over his career, he has been known by several pseudonyms including "Kris Parker," "The Blastmaster," "The Teacha," and "The Philosopher." At the 2008 BET Awards, KRS-One was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for all his work and effort towards the Stop the Violence Movement as well as the overall pioneering of hip-hop music and culture.
  http://wn.com/KRS-One
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  Lady Gaga
  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by the stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003 and enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
  http://wn.com/Lady_Gaga
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  Malcolm Gladwell
  Malcolm Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is a writer for The New Yorker and best-selling author based in New York City. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known for his books The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), Outliers (2008), and (2009).
  http://wn.com/Malcolm_Gladwell
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  Melissa Harris-Perry
  Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry, formerly known as Melissa Harris-Lacewell, is an American writer, political scientist, and an Associate Professor of Politics and African American studies at Princeton University. She received her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and an honoris causa doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School.
  http://wn.com/Melissa_Harris-Perry
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  Melyssa Ford
  Melyssa Savannah Ford (born November 7, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian model and actress. She attended York University and studied in the field of forensic psychology. Ford's father is Afro-Barbadian and her mother is Russian and Norwegian. She is often referred to as Jessica Rabbit, after the character from the animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit whose voluptuous figure Ford's is said to resemble.
  http://wn.com/Melyssa_Ford
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  Method Man
  Clifford Smith (born April 1, 1971 in Staten Island, New York), better known by his stage name Method Man or Meth is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He took his stage name from the 1979 film The Fearless Young Boxer, also known as Method Man. He is one half of the rap duo Method Man & Redman along with fellow rapper Redman. He won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" with Mary J. Blige.
  http://wn.com/Method_Man
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  Mumia Abu-Jamal
  Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is an American convicted and sentenced to death for the December 9, 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has been described as "perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world", and his sentence is one of the most debated today.
  http://wn.com/Mumia_Abu-Jamal
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  Nas
  Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (; born September 14, 1973), who performs under the name Nas (), formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge housing projects in New York City. His debut album Illmatic, released in 1994 by Columbia Records, was critically acclaimed and would go on to be widely hailed a classic in the genre. Nas was part of hip-hop supergroup The Firm, which released one album.
  http://wn.com/Nas
• Nas (rapper)
  http://wn.com/Nas_(rapper)
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  Ne-Yo
  Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1982), better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop and R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and occasional rapper. Since his debut, Ne-Yo has had five top ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200. Ne-Yo has also amassed a catalog of chart-topping songs that he has written for other artists.
  http://wn.com/Ne-Yo
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  Nelson George
  Nelson George (born September 1, 1957) is an African American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
  http://wn.com/Nelson_George
• P. Diddy
  http://wn.com/P_Diddy
• Paula Zahn Now
  http://wn.com/Paula_Zahn_Now
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  Questlove
  Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born on January 20, 1971), known professionally as ?uestlove or Questlove (also known as BROther ?uestion, Questo or Brother Question), is an American drummer, DJ, music journalist and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, which is now the in-house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He has produced for artists such as Common, D'Angelo, and more recently, Al Green and Nikka Costa. He is a member of the production teams the Soulquarians, the Grand Negaz, and The Grand Wizzards.
  http://wn.com/Questlove
• R Kelly
  http://wn.com/R_Kelly
• Raekwon
  Corey Woods (born January 12, 1970), better known by the stage name Raekwon (sometimes "Raekwon the Chef"), is an American rapper and a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. He released his solo debut, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., in 1995, and has continued recording solo and with the Wu-Tang Clan since then. In 2009, Raekwon released the sequel to his critically acclaimed debut with the similarly praised Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II.
  http://wn.com/Raekwon
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  Rakim
  William Michael Griffin, Jr. (later changed his name to Rakim Allah, born January 28, 1968), better known by the stage name Rakim , is an American rapper and one of the pioneers of the musical genre of hip hop. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled MCs of all time due to his exceptional flow and complex lyrical craftsmanship.
  http://wn.com/Rakim
• Rev. Run
  http://wn.com/Rev_Run
• Run-DMC
  http://wn.com/Run-DMC
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  Sean Combs
  Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), currently known by his stage name Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, and men's fashion designer. He has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and his clothing line earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award.
  http://wn.com/Sean_Combs
• Sekou Touré
  http://wn.com/Sekou_Touré
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  Snoop Dogg
  Cordozar Calvin Broadus (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American entertainer, rapper, record producer and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school. Shortly after graduation, he was arrested for cocaine possession and spent six months in Wayside County Jail. His music career began in 1992 after his release when he was discovered by Dr. Dre. He collaborated on several tracks on Dre's solo debut, The Chronic and on the titular theme song to the film Deep Cover.
  http://wn.com/Snoop_Dogg
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  Soledad O'Brien
  '''María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien' (born September 19, 1966) is a American television personality. She is currently the host of the "In America" documentary unit on CNN, and is best known for anchoring the CNN marquee morning newscast American Morning'' from July 2003 to April 2007, with Miles O'Brien. Their common surname is coincidental.
  http://wn.com/Soledad_O'Brien
• Stanley Crouch
  Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel ''Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?''
  http://wn.com/Stanley_Crouch
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  T.I.
  Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. (born September 25, 1980), better known by his stage name T.I. or T.I.P., is an American recording artist, film & music producer, and occasional actor. He is the founder and co-chief executive officer (CEO) of Grand Hustle Records.
  http://wn.com/TI
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  Tina Brown
  Tina Brown, Lady Evans (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, United Kingdom) is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984. At the age of 25 then, she had been the editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine, and rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of the magazines Vanity Fair from 1984 to 1992 and of The New Yorker from 1992 to 1998. In 2000 she was awarded the C.B.E (Commander of the British Empire) for her services to overseas journalism and in 2007 was inducted into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. As an editor, she has also been honored with four George Polk Awards, five Overseas Press Club awards, and ten National Magazine Awards. In October 2008 she partnered with Barry Diller, chairman of IAC to found and edit The Daily Beast.
  http://wn.com/Tina_Brown
• Trina
  Katrina Laverne Taylor (born December 3, 1978 ), better known by her stage name Trina, is an American rapper and songwriter. Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance with Trick Daddy's "Nann nigga". Since then Trina has made a name for herself as a female MC and has released five studio albums.
  http://wn.com/Trina
• Zadie Smith
  Zadie Smith (born 25 October 1975) is an English novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on ''Granta's'' list of 20 best young authors. She joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as tenured Professor from September 1, 2010
  http://wn.com/Zadie_Smith

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  Amsterdam
  Amsterdam (; Dutch ) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, with an urban population of 1,364,422 and a metropolitan population of 2,158,372. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe, with a population of approximately 6.7 million.
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  Brooklyn
  Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) is a private research university in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. It was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, and is one of only three United States universities to have been founded under such authority.
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  Florida
  Florida () is a state of the United States. It is located in the Southeastern United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean to the south. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European colonization.
  http://wn.com/Florida
• Fort Greene
  http://wn.com/Fort_Greene
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  Guinea
  Guinea (, officially the Republic of Guinea ), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (Guinée française), it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbor Guinea-Bissau. Conakry is the capital, the seat of the national government, and the largest city.
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  London
  London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
  http://wn.com/London
• Miami
  Miami ( or ) is a major city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida, and the eighth-most populous county in the United States, with a population of 2,500,625. The 42nd largest city in the United States, with a population of 433,136, it is the principal, central and most populous city of the South Florida metropolitan area. According to United Nations estimates, the Miami Urbanized Area was the fifth most populous urbanized area in the U.S. in 2000 with a population of 4,919,036, but in 2008 that number increased to 5,232,342, making it the fourth-largest urbanized area in the United States, behind New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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  New Jersey
  New Jersey (, ) is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the northeast by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey lies largely within the sprawling metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is the most densely populated state in the United States.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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  Wisconsin
  Wisconsin () is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is considered part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Upper Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee. As of 2009 the state has an estimated 5.6 million residents. The state contains 72 counties.
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  Wyoming
  Wyoming is a state in the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is mostly covered by the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High Plains. While the tenth largest U.S. state by area, Wyoming is the least populous, with a U.S. Census estimated population of 544,270 in 2009. This is a 5.9% increase since 2000. The capital and the most populous city of Wyoming is Cheyenne.
  http://wn.com/Wyoming

• A&E;
• Aaron McGruder
• Adele (singer)
• Al Sharpton
• Alicia Keys
• American football
• American Morning
• Amsterdam
• Anderson Cooper 360°
• bees
• best man
• Beyoncé
• Bill Hemmer
• boa constrictor
• Brooklyn
• Cee-Lo Green
• Chuck D
• CNN
• Columbia University
• Cornel West
• Courtney Love
• cultural critic
• Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• Dateline NBC
• Dave Chappelle
• demolition derby
• DMX (rapper)
• Eminem
• Emory University
• English language
• essayist
• Fergie (singer)
• Florida
• Fort Greene
• Frankfurt
• Free Press
• Fuse TV
• Ghostface Killah
• Glenn Ligon
• Grammys
• Greg Tate
• Guinea
• Harold Ford, Jr.
• Henry Louis Gates
• hip hop music
• Ice Cube
• Indiana
• J. Cole
• Jay-Z
• Kamala Harris
• Kanye West
• Kara Walker
• Kehinde Wiley
• Kid Rock
• KRS-One
• Lady Gaga
• Lauryn Hill
• Lenny Kravitz
• log rolling
• London
• Ludacris
• magic realism
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Melyssa Ford
• Method Man
• Miami
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Milton Academy
• MSNBC
• MTV2
• Mumia Abu-Jamal
• music journalist
• Nas
• Nas (rapper)
• Ne-Yo
• Nelson George
• New Jersey
• New York City
• novelist
• Oscars
• P. Diddy
• Paula Zahn Now
• Playboy
• pop culture
• public radio
• Questlove
• R Kelly
• Raekwon
• Rakim
• Rev. Run
• rodeo clown
• Rolling Stone
• Run-DMC
• Sean Combs
• Sekou Touré
• short stories
• Snoop Dogg
• Soledad O'Brien
• Stanley Crouch
• Swizz Beats
• T.I.
• Talib Kweli
• Tennis Channel
• TENNIS Magazine
• The Black Carpet
• the Foo Fighters
• The New York Times
• The New Yorker
• The O'Reilly Factor
• Time (magazine)
• Tina Brown
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• Treasure HD
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• Utopia
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• wide receiver
• Wisconsin
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• Zadie Smith

Aboubakar, Touré Filmography

• Ada dans la jungle (1988) (actor, plays Charly, le Congolais)