Legendary R & B singer Whitney Houston was put to rest yesterday afternoon following a funeral service that lasted for more than three hours. Although intended to be a small and private ceremony, her family decided to share this moment with the public through a live stream. Many celebrities, including Reverend Jesse Jackson, Kevin Costner and Alicia Keys participated in the event. Houston, who sold more than 160 million records, is the daughter of gospel legend Cissy Houston and the cousin of Dionne Warwick. She will be put to rest next to her father in a cemetary near her hometown of Newark, New Jersey.

The Link to the entire Funeral Service: Whitney Elizabeth Houston

Legendary singer and actress Whitney Houston has been reported dead at the age of 48. In her lifetime she had sold more than 170 million records and won numerous awards including 6 Grammys, 22 American Music Awards, 2 Emmys and 30 Billboard Music Awards. Houston dominated the 1980s and early 1990s until problems with addiction and a troubled marriage derailed her career. She is survived by one daughter and three stepchildren through her ex-husband singer Bobby Brown. She will be greatly missed by people young and old by those who influenced her and those she influenced. Rest in Peace.

Former child actor Macaulay Culkin was spotted looking disheveled and gaunt in NYC a few days ago. Despite claims from his representative that he is in good health, I believe otherwise. After Home Alone and The Pagemaster, Culkin has largely done independent films and theatre, never regaining the same stature he had as a child. He also picked up some serious drug habits along the way, a theme all too familiar with washed-up former child stars.

Kids, don't do drugs!!! You'll end up a scruffy wash-up that looks 40 when you're 30!

It's 2012. We have a Black President in office and have oulawed segregaton. Yet, we still have Black on Black crime. Have we really overcome?

I feel it incumbent upon me to deal with a racist piece of trash. In late August, Matt Patterson posted an article in the American Thinker claiming that President Obama was an Affirmative Action president of dubious professional and academic acheivement. While I understand that many people have misgivings about a black president in the nation's highest office, there is no excuse for the kind of passive-aggressive racist screed uttered by Mr Patterson in his article.

If a future historian were to look at Obama, they would see an ultimate realization of the American Dream. A dream where any American  lead in your country, regardless of race and regardless of economic background if they work hard enough for it. Being a Harvard professor, they would see him as possibly the brightest and most educated president in history. Keep in mind that Harry S. Truman was a haberdasher with only a high school diploma and that Abraham Lincoln was largely self-taught in lieu of a formal education, yet these former presidents made their mark in out nation's history. Truman concluded World War II and Lincoln ended slavery and the Civil War, the war is alleged to have killed more Americans than any other war combined.

A REAL look into Obama's past: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5m6YFBcixo

A critique from one of his former classmates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR14k1Sna8M

Obama's view on Affirmative Action:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saIVafSC38k

Another classmate opines on his 2008 election: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zalwa8p6whA&feature=related