• If Nate Dogg's alleged stroke had happened a few years ago, all popular black songs would have had to have been recorded with no hooks. [GW]

• How well do you know your 2007 entertainment trivia? [BG]

• North Carolina black voters aren't getting the same love that their southern counterparts are, but they still care! [State]

• R.I.P. Thomas Morgan III, the first openly gay president of the National Association of Black Journalists and a New York Times reporter. [ND]

• So long, Kwanzaa? [WP]