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With every nugget of proof that Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are actually joined in holy matrimony, I become more and more incredulous. The pictures, however, speak for themselves. The two did not avoid the camera last night at Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World party, where Mariah Carey was honored and performed. John McCain, who, along with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, was also an honoree, showed up with a big, yellow-ish smile on his face. He was the only candidate who actually had time.

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In keeping with the Mother’s Day theme, here’s a clip from Good Times featuring the long-suffering, hard-working Florida Evans, along with a whole lot of overacting.

In celebration of all of our mothers, whose big day is coming up on Sunday, here is a selection of black celebrity moms — and their cute kids!

Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

Despite his request to delay the proceedings, it looks like R. Kelly’s child pornography trial will, indeed, begin tomorrow. After all of these years, I can’t imagine what the outcome will be. What do you think will be the verdict in this long, long, long-awaited trial? Guilty or not guilty?

Ever heard of Romona Moore? I hadn’t either. She was a 21-year-old Hunter College student who lived in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn with her parents, who are immigrants from Guyana. When she left the house to go to Burger King one night five years ago and didn’t return by the next morning, her mother, Elle Carmichael, called the police. The police told her she shouldn’t even be calling for a 21-year-old missing woman. They didn’t help and closed the complaint that an officer had drafted out of pity. In the four days that followed, as the police refused to help Carmichael by opening an investigation, Romona Moore was being raped and tortured by two men in a house a few blocks from her home. They beat her death on the day that police reluctantly launched an investigation. Carmichael had to help the police find her daughter’s body by conducting her own amateur investigation.

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FOXY BROWN PLEDGES TO KEEP HER BLACKBERRY IN HER PURSE Foxy Brown won’t be going back to Rikers Island anytime soon, unless she throws something at another neighbor. Today, she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge associated with a fight with her neighbor last year that culminated in a thrown Blackberry and a black eye. The plea allowed her to avoid felony charges — and a trip back to jail. “There was no penalty and we consider it a victorious day today, and we’re moving forward so she can focus on her career, family and fans,” her attorney said. “She feels great. She’s really happy and excited to move forward. We’re very pleased with this outcome.” [MTV]

It was a big week for Mariah Carey — she lost her single status and her No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200. In her defense, there was really no competing with Madonna’s Hard Candy.

Also debuting new albums last week were Lyfe Jennings, whose Lyfe Change debuted at No. 4, and the Roots. Their album, Rising Down, debuted at the No. 6 spot. I haven’t listened to it yet, but from what I hear, it’s definitely better than it’s spot on the charts suggests. But that’s just the way it works in the music industry.

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IN MYANMAR… Cyclone survivors don’t have sufficient fuel to burn corpses, which litter fields and ditches. An estimated 100,000 people are dead. The military junta has been painfully slow in granting visas to relief workers and giving clearance for planes carrying much-needed supplies to land. ” The U.S. has also been pushing for access, pledging $3.25 million and offering to send U.S. Navy ships to the region to help relief efforts. The U.S. military had already flown six helicopters on to a Thai airbase, as Washington awaits permission to go into the south Asian country, two senior military officials told CNN’s Barbara Starr.”

Perhaps Rihanna and her best friend/brother Chris Brown thought that they were safe to kiss without worrying about paparazzi at a Miami KFC. They were wrong. I feel like such a tween right now, but here goes: “OMG, they are the cutest couple. Chris + Rihanna 4eeeevvveerrrrrrr. [TMZ]

• Nicole Richie, Joel Madden, and one incredulous baby. [C&D]

• Mr. Collipark, the mastermind behind the Ying Yang Twins, Hurricane Chris, and Souljah Boy, has started a scholarship program for teen girls. One of the stipulations should be that the girls never, ever listen to his music. [AHH]

• Jay-Z and Beyonce honeymooned at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Arizona. No jokes! [Bossip]

• Here are some last minute Mother’s Day ideas. [RS]

• Chris Brown’s bodyguards need to chill. [SP]

Toni Morrison on whether she regrets calling Bill Clinton the first black president:

People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.

Hillary Clinton’s going hard at Barack Obama this week after her very disappointing Tuesday. She’s pointing to her success with white working class voters as an indicator that she is in a better position to win the presidency.

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said…

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SIT DOWN, DMX. JUST SIT DOWN. DMX was arrested at his Arizona home yesterday after traffic cameras on a suburban Phoenix freeway caught his bright yellow, 1966 Chevrolet (with a big DMX decal on the windshield) on three separate occasions going 100, 101 and 114 mph in a 65 mph zone. His lawyer said he had no comment, but we can probably guess his defense: “It wasn’t me!” [SP]

Considering the fact that Puffy probably thinks that no one can ever really accurately capture the essence of Sean Combs in the Voletta Wallace-produced Biggie biopic, Notorious, it probably means a lot that he says that Derek Luke is so good in the role that it scared him and he had to leave the set. “He was acting just like me,” he told MTV. Now that he has his Hollywood star, Diddy’s finally able to wrap his head around this whole acting thing.