Gary Coleman has died at the age of 42 after suffering a brain hemorrhage that left him in a coma and on life support, multiple news sources have confirmed. The ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ actor was taken to the hospital on Wednesday, and his conditions only worsened as the days went on.

RadarOnline was the first to break the news of Coleman’s death. According to TMZ, Coleman passed away at 12:05 PM Mountain Standard Time with his family by his side.

Coleman was taken to the hospital on May 26 after injuring his head during a fall, resulting in a brain hemorrhage. A spokesman for the actor said that he was “conscious and lucid” upon his arrival at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, but later slipped into a coma.

“We are saddened to announce that since mid-afternoon, Mountain Time, on May 27, 2010, Mr. Coleman has been unconscious and on life support,” his rep John Alcantar said in a statement on Friday.

Coleman became a child actor sensation thanks to his role on ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ where he made the words “What’choo talkin’ ’bout” a national catchphrase. With his role as Arnold Drummond — an adopted black child taken in by a rich white New York City man — Coleman rode the wave of success until the show’s end in 1986, setting him up for other movie and TV opportunities.

Throughout his life, Coleman battled various health issues. He received two kidney transplants — one in 1973 and one in 1984 — to help curb the kidney disease nephritis, which he has battled for decades. It’s that disease which is responsible for stunting his growth.

Speaking with PEOPLE in 1979 at the age of 11, Coleman said of his first transplant: “The reason I survived is that I had a kidney that wouldn’t give up … Now I got a Greek kidney donated from a kid who was hit by a car.”

Coleman’s health has been an issue of late, as the 42-year-old actor has suffered two seizures this year. The first occurred on January 6, while the second took place in late February while he was on the set of ‘The Insider.’ During the 911 call from the latter incident, an ‘Insider’ staffer who called it in told the operator, “We have someone having a seizure right now on our stage … we just need someone as soon as possible.”

Later in life, Coleman secretly married Shannon Price in 2007, who he met on the set of a movie.

“Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the helicopter pilot and us. That was all that was there. There was nobody else.” Coleman told ‘Inside Edition’ about the secret wedding.

He went on to say that despite the fact that his new wife was 22 when they married (Coleman was 40 at the time), he had no “issues with age, I have issues with intelligence … She’s more intelligent than I am and that’s what matters to me.”

As their marriage continued, though, trouble began to settle in. Shortly after their big reveal, the two wound up in a very public spat on ‘Divorce Court,’ where they tried to work through their marital issues. On the show, Price claimed that “if he doesn’t get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a five-year-old does.” Coleman retorted by saying “the male is always the bad guy … When I try to state my case or explain things to her or try to get her to understand my point of view.”

In the wake of the ‘Divorce Court’ drama, allegations of abuse on both sides soon began making headlines. Price was arrested in 2009 on domestic abuse charges after an incident in their home. In January of 2010, Coleman found himself in handcuffs on a separate domestic violence warrant after he failed to attend a court date.

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With four albums under his belt, Dwele’s fifth is shaping up to be more of the same.

The Detroit singer’s upcoming fifth album, W.W.W. (W.ants W.orld W.omen), due out June 29th, seems to be following the same formula of his other releases.

While Dwele is an incredibly gifted producer and musician, when it comes to his lyrics, they are often cringe inducing and make me feel embarrassed for him having to sing them (case in point, 2007’s “Flapjacks“)

The latest leak from W.W.W. is no exception.  “I Wish” seems like a blunted stream of consciousness ramble set to music.

Maybe Dwele should consider taking a cue from Elton John and find his own Bernie Taupin.

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Vikter Duplaix may not be a familiar name to many of you, but surely you’ve heard his work before.

The multi-talented singer-songwriter-producer-DJ has made a name for himself over the last 10+ years penning and producing songs for Erykah Badu (”Green Eyes“), Eric Benet (”Love Of My Own“), Leela James (”My Joy“) and Musiq (”Momentinlife“) to name but a few.

He’s also got an impressive career as a solo artist, having released two albums and being nominated for a Grammy in 2008 for his song “Make A Baby.”

In 2010, he’s gearing up for the release of a brand new album and just released the video for the lead single “Electric Love,” a slow and sexy jam that should come packaged with birth control pills and a couple of condoms.

Click here to download “Electric Love” for free at Vikter’s website!

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If anyone can relate to label drama it’s R&B star Leela James. Before the release of her latest album My Soul, she severed an eight-year relationship with Warner Brothers Records and  is now recording with Staxx.

“Warner is a big machine but you can get lost,” she says. “The support really wasn’t there. It doesn’t matter if you have this big fancy house if it’s not a home. I was originally signed in 2000 and my first record didn’t come out until 2005. Plus I had shady management…”

This doesn’t mean that she is free of red tape and industry problems. While she has a great duet on her new album with Raheem Devaughn, “Mr. Incredible/Ms. Unforgettable” another collab with Anthony Hamilton didn’t make the final cut of My Soul.

“That’s what happens behind the scenes,” she shares. “It wasn’t because we didn’t do the song, it was label stuff.”

However, that hasn’t stopped her from putting together a really quality project. My Soul features production from Chucky Thompson and features some personal must-hear songs like “The Fact Is.” The gut-wrenching ballad laments her inability to shake loose of an old love and she admits it comes from personal experience.

“You can tell yourself that you’re over something but then you’re like ‘I still think about this idiot!,” says James.

Watch our interview with Leela and check out her new album My Soul On BP Music!

From UPI.com:

NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) — Singer and actress Queen Latifah has signed on as host of the 10th BET Awards show in Los Angeles next month, BET Networks said Tuesday.

The event honoring stars of the sports and entertainment industries is to take place at the Shrine Auditorium June 27.

Performances by Diddy-Dirty Money, Trey Songz, Nicki Minaj and Drake have already been scheduled.

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If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency.

That comparison comes with many footnotes and asterisks. But it shows how the economic debate between the parties could look very different over time — perhaps by November, more likely by 2012. More important, the comparison underscores the urgency of repairing an American job-creation machine that was sputtering long before the 2008 financial meltdown.

First, the numbers: From February 2001, Bush’s first full month in office, through January 2009, his last, total U.S. nonfarm employment grew from 132.5 million to 133.5 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s an increase, obviously, of just 1 million. From January through April of this year, the economy created 573,000 jobs. Over a full year, that projects to 1.72 million jobs. Job-creation numbers are notoriously volatile, so the actual result could run above or below that estimate. But Obama administration economists are increasingly optimistic that job growth this year will exceed expectations. Few of them will be surprised if more jobs are created in 2010 than over Bush’s two terms.

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Now the principal footnote: To compare job growth in 2010 with Bush’s record ignores the nearly 4 million jobs lost in Obama’s first year, during the freefall that began in Bush’s final months. That’s like ignoring a meteor strike. Over time, voters are likely to judge Obama by his degree of success in eliminating that deficit and reducing unemployment. Still, if the economy this year produces more than 1 million jobs — or, conceivably, more than 2 million — that will give Democrats more ammunition to argue that their agenda has started to turn the tide.

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After the child support and the squandered millions, Kenny Anderson was the one who registered for college, who mastered the digital classroom, who studied in his spare time.

“My son sees me with books in my knapsack and he says, ‘You’re 39 years old, you’re still going to school?’ ” Anderson said of his son Ken Jr., 9.

The payoff will come Saturday at St. Thomas University in Miami, when Anderson will don his cap and gown and graduate, 19 years after leaving Georgia Tech.

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TRIPOLI, Libya – A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli’s airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline’s brightly colored logo. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor.

The Dutch prime minister said everyone on the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa was killed except the boy, who was undergoing surgery. However, Libyan officials only confirmed that 96 bodies had been found and said rescuers were searching for the rest of the victims.

The Royal Dutch Tourism Board said 61 of the dead came from the Netherlands.

“This is a large group of Dutch nationals after all, so it’s a deeply sad message we have this day,” Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said.

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Libyan state television showed a large field scattered with small and large pieces of plane debris and dozens of police and rescue workers with surgical masks and gloves, some of them carrying at least one body away. They gathered small personal items such as wallets and cell phones from the wreckage.

Others sifted through debris — some of it still smoldering — including a flight recorder and green seats with television screens on them. A large piece of the plane’s tail was visible, bearing Afriqiyah’s brightly colored logo with the numbers “9.9.99,” a reference to the date of the founding of the African Union.

The plane was carrying 93 passengers and 11 crew.

“Afriqiyah Airways announces that our flight 771 had an accident during landing at Tripoli International airport,” the statement said. “At this moment, we have no information concerning possible casualties or survivors. Our information is that there were 93 passenger and 11 crew aboard. Authorities are conducting the search and rescue mission.”

Libyan Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zaidan said 96 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage and rescuers were searching for the rest of the victims. Libya’s official JANA news agency quoted him as saying a Dutch boy has survived the crash, but did not say anything about his condition.

The plane was approaching the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli when it crashed at around 6 a.m. (0400 GMT, 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday) There was no immediate word on the cause, according to a statement by the airlines posted on its website.

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Afriqiyah said flight 771 left Johannesburg at 1 a.m. Wednesday (2300 GMT Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday).

The airlines later issued a second statement saying a search-and-rescue operation at the crash site “has now been completed and casualties have been moved to various hospitals.”

It said Tripoli was the flight’s final destination.

Weather conditions over Tripoli’s international airport were good on Wednesday, with three-mile (4.8-kilometer) visibility, scattered clouds at 10,000 feet and winds of only three miles per hour.

A NASA Web site said an ash cloud from Iceland’s volcano had reached North Africa by Monday, but a map from Britain’s meteorological office showed it was well west of Tripoli at the time of the crash.

Brussels-based European air traffic management agency said the thinning volcanic ash cloud that disrupted air traffic over parts of Europe and the Atlantic in the past few days had moved into mid-ocean and was unlikely to have affected an airliner in Libya, more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) to the west.

Daniel Hoeltgen, spokesman for the European Aviation Safety Agency said Afriqiyah has undergone 10 recent safety inspections at European airports, with no significant safety findings. He said a team of French crash investigators was already on its way to Tripoli.

“We are currently talking to Airbus and with the French accident investigator BEA, which will be involved in the investigation,” said Hoeltgen. “We will lend our support if this is required by authorities in charge.”

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Afriqiyah Airways is not included on the European Union’s list of banned airlines. The list has nearly 300 carriers deemed by the EU not to meet international safety standards.

According to initial reports, the plane crashed as it neared the threshold of Tripoli International’s main east-west runway, while preparing to touch down from the east.

The main runway at Tripoli Airport is 3,600 yards (meters) long. According to international airport guides, the airport does not have a precision approach system that guides airplanes down to the runway’s threshold, but has two other less sophisticated systems that are in wide use throughout the world.

Wednesday’s crash was the fourth deadly landing accident at Tripoli airport in the past 40 years, according to the Web site of the U.S.-based Flight Safety Foundation.

In 1970, a Czechoslovak Airlines Tupolev 104 crashed 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) from the airport, killing all 13 people on board. A year later, a United Arab Airlines Comet crashed 4.5 miles (7 kilometers) from the runway threshold, killing all 16 on board. In 1989, a Korean Air DC-10 crashed, killing 75 of the 199 people on the aircraft.

Afriqiyah Airways operates an all Airbus fleet. It was founded in April 2001 and is fully owned by the Libyan government.

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In anticipation of his new movie Just Wright, Common has been putting out mixtapes of music inspired by the movie. In this latest installment he culls the soul of Patrice Rushen, Roy Ayers Music Project and many more.

LISTEN TO IT HERE:

Queen Latifah and Common present

Just Wright Mixtape Volume 2

Music Assembled by The Twilite Tone

1. Settle For My Love / Patrice Rushen
2. There’s Nothing Like This / Omar
3. You’re Always On My Mind / SWV
4. Guilty (Featuring Barry Gibb) / Barbra Streisand
5. Promise Me / Luther Vandross
6. Someday / George Duke
7. Making Love In The Rain / Herb Albert
8. That Day / Muhsinah
9. Daylight / Ramp
10. I Still Love You / 702
11. Inspiration Information / Shuggie Otis
12. Uno Esta / Bobbi Humphries
13. One On One / Hall & Oates
14. When Will The Day Come / Rasa
15. The Makings Of You (Live) / Curtis Mayfield
16. Nothing Even Matters (featuring D’angelo) / Lauryn Hill
17. Light My Fire / Jose Feliciano
18. Paperchase / Clara Hill Meets Vivkter Duplaix
19. Tomorrow / Quincy Jones & Tevin Campbell

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Also don’t miss this interview with Charles Barkley and Common’s character Scott McKnight. I think he want easy on him!

The One Million Mentors Campaign is designed to encourage qualified adults to sign up as mentors.  With more than 14 million children in the Unites States in need of mentoring, nationally syndicated Michael Baisden brings his message of support to Richmond and to 72 other cities during the next seven months on his “Save Our Kids Bus Tour.”