Derrick Brown Sports Report 04.28.14 on DrAlvin.Com: TMZ Donald Sterling Marge Schott

D Brown Sports 042814 Click Here To Listen Get the latest in sports news and commentary.

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Harry Lennix Of NBC’s Blacklist chats with Dr. Alvin

Harry Lennix Click Here To Listen Harry Lennix stars as FBI head Harry Cooper in NBC's action-thriller "The Blacklist." Lennix is an accomplished film, television and stage actor who appears in the Warner Bros. feature "Man of Steel." Other recent credits include "Emily Owens, M.D.," "Dollhouse" and "Little Britain," as well as the critically acclaimed series "24." Lennix made his Broadway debut in August Wilson's Tony-nominated play "Radio Golf." He was seen on the big screen in Working Title's "State of Play." In 2006, Lennix starred in the Golden Globe-nominated ABC show "Commander in Chief" as Jim Gardner, Chief of Staff to the POTUS. His other appearances include the Oscar-winning film "Ray," "The Matrix: Reloaded" [...]

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Cheryl Burke Of ABC’s DWTS chats with Dr. Alvin

Cheryl Burke Click Here To Listen Cheryl has won over audiences with her creative choreography and effervescent personality. We suspect her dangerously low cut dresses might have something to do with it, too. Joining the show in the second season with a bang, Cheryl won back-to-back disco ball trophies with partner Drew Lachey in Season 2, and then with Emmitt Smith in Season 3, and had a second place finish with Rob Kardashian in Season 13, and another one in Season 14 with William Levy. But don't let her sweet smile fool you—this girl has some sizzling hot moves and knows just how to show them off! "We want people to think something is going [...]

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Food Network’s Sunny Anderson Chats With Dr. Alvin

Sunny Anderson-Easy Food Click Here To Listen Sunny Anderson is the beloved host of Food Network’s Cooking for Real and Home Made in America with Sunny Anderson, and New York Time’sbest-selling author with her first cookbook, Sunny’s Kitchen: Easy Food For Real Life -- knows the importance of a home-cooked meal, even while away from home. From her military-brat upbringing to her travels around the country in search of local flavors, Sunny’s “real life” is spent on the road. Sunny has amassed true comfort food recipes with bright flavors and the feeling, memories and celebrations that go along with them. Often drawing on store-bought shortcuts and always relying on affordable, easy-to-find ingredients, Sunny is always [...]

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Respect Yourself: Stax Records And The Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon chats with Dr. Alvin

Robert Gordon Click Here To Listen The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis.

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Louis Armstrong: Master Of Modernism by Thomas Brothers chats with Dr. Alvin

Thomas Brothers Click Here To Listen The definitive account of Louis Armstrong—his life and legacy—during the most creative period of his career. Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations, but his story would be incomplete without examining how he struggled in a society seething with brutally racist ideologies, laws, and practices. Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with the acclaimed Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, following the story of [...]

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Here Comes The Night by Joel Selvin chats with Dr. Alvin

Joel Selvin-Here Comes The Night Click Here To Listen Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues is both a definitive account of the golden age of rhythm and blues of the early ’60s and the harrowing, ultimately tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric career was fueled by his pending doom. Berns was one of the great originals; he prospered and thrived under the auspices of Atlantic Records, a company devoted to authentic, vibrantly musical rhythm and blues records at the forefront of the art form. His heart damaged by rheumatic fever as a youth, Berns was not expected to [...]

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The Legs Are The Last To Go by Diahann Carroll chats with Dr. Alvin

Diahann Carroll Click Here To Listen It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll—whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers—is anything but conventional. Here she shares her life story with an admirable candidness of someone who has seen and done it all.

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A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey

Eric Jerome Dickey-A Wanted Woman Click Here To Listen The traditional foods movement is a fad-free approach to cooking and eating that emphasizes nutrient-dense, real food, and values quality, environment, and community over the convenience of processed, additive-laden products that are the norm on grocery store shelves. Based on the research of Weston A. Price, who studied the diets of indigenous peoples to understand the relationship between nutrition and health, a traditional foods diet avoids processed ingredients, but allows meat, animal fat, and grains. It embraces cultured dairy, such as kefir and yogurt, that contain beneficial bacteria; fermented foods, such as sauerkraut and kombucha, that are rich in probiotics; and organ meats that are packed with vitamins and minerals. [...]

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