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News From Around The Web: June 6 Edition

June 6th, 2012

In today’s top news, music exec and manager Jimmy Henchman is found guilty of 13 drug charges, Marvel Studios plans to produce Black Panther action hero movie and a new report shows the racial gap in life expectancy is shrinking.

Music exec and manager Jimmy Henchman is found guilty of 13 drug charges. [BET]

Marvel Studios plans to produce Black Panther action-hero movie. [MTV]

A new report shows the racial gap in life expectancy is shrinking. [WebMD]

Spike Lee is in talks to produce boxer Mike Tyson’s Broadway show. [BET]

Rapper turned pastor Mase may be the newest artists to join Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label. [BET]

A South Carolina mother was arrested for cheering too loudly at her daughter’s graduation. [MSNBC]

Condoleezza Rice is back on the political scene fundraising for Republican women. [MSNBC]

Atlanta’s historic Sweet Auburn district, birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr., has been placed on the “most endangered placed list.” [MSNBC]

An official at Nigeria’s Dana Airline says the company knew the plane wasn’t fit to fly before Sunday’s ill-fated voyage. [Vanguard]

A bomb targeted the U.S. embassy in Libya. [Reuters]

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