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On today's Podcast Alecia Jeanetta Johnson, the former Fort Valley State University executive assistant to the president, was indicted Friday for prostitution and pimping in a scandal that rocked the tiny college last summer.  

Johnson Publishing Company, the founder and former owner of Ebony and Jet magazines, is being liquidated.

The company filed for bankruptcy liquidation last Tuesday. The magazines themselves were sold off in 2016.

It’s a sad end to what was once a groundbreaking and iconic publishing house that documented African American life and African American success stories when few others did.

Johnson Publishing is also credited with helping to launch the civil rights movement when founder and publisher John H. Johnson made the momentous decision to publish in Jet magazine open coffin images of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

Singer Aveon Falstar has gone public with an explosive secret, saying he carried on a sexual affair with Wendy Williams’ husband Kevin Hunter in 2018.

Speaking to rising blogger and YouTube star Tasha K. on her show “unWineWithTashaK,” Falstar explained how his singing talents brought him to the attention of producers for the “Wendy Williams Show.” After he wowed the mostly female crowd during a pre-show taping, it eventually resulted in being signed by Kevin Hunter.

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