Memorial Day Break!! We’ll be back.


The FIYAH is taking a much needed break from posting to coincide with Memorial Day. There will be no new posts until Wednesday, May 30th. Please feel free to use this valuable time to catch up on all the wonderful entries we’ve put up over the past several months. Check the Countdown widget on the right until our return. Thanks for being part of our experience while letting us be part of yours. You didn’t have to, but you did. Until next week, have a couple of refreshing margaritas.

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Dime and Nickle: TV’s TOP 15 FIYAH of the WEEK


For the Week beginning Monday, May 14 through Sunday, May 20, 2012.

1. Touch / FOX / Kiefer Sutherland, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Mazouz

2. Common Law / USA / Michael Ealy, Warren Kole, Sonya Walger, Jack McGee

3. The L.A. Complex / CW / Jewel Staite, Cassie Steele, Chelan Simmons, Andra Fuller, Benjamin Charles Watson, Joe Dinicol, Jonathan Patrick Moore

4. Scandal / ABC / Kerry Washington, Henry Ian Cusick, Darby Stanchfield, Tony Goldwyn, Columbus Short, Guillermo Diaz, Katie Lowes, Jeff Perry

5. Dancing With The Stars / ABC / Tom Bergeron, Brooke Burke, Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Harold Wheeler, Donald Driver, Katherine Jenkins, William Levy

6. House / FOX / Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer, Peter Jacobson, Odette Yustman, Charlyne Yi

7. Around the World in 80 Plates / FOOD / Curtis Stone, Cat Cora

8. Shark Tank / ABC / Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin Harrington, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec

9. Welcome To Sweetie Pies / OWN / Miss Robbie Montgomery, Mr. Tim Norman, Lil’ Charles, Lady Jenae

10. Food Network Star / FOOD / Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, Giada de Laurentiis, Bob Tuschman, Susie Fogelson

11. Dream Machines / SyFy / Shanon Parker, Marc Parker

12. America’s Next Top Model / CW /

13. Eureka / SyFy / Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Joe Morton, Erica Serra, Neil Grayston, Niall Matter

14. Hollywood For Sale / HGTV / Renee Bargh

15. Selling LA / HGTV

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Rev. Otis Moss of Trinity Church in Chicago: “Don’t Abandon Obama Over Gay Marriage”


This week there has been much speculation over whether or not the black church will abandon President Obama over his support of gay marriage. Atleast one black pastor has gone on record to withdraw his support of Obama, but others, like Rev. Otis Moss of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, are supporting him.

Rev. Moss wrote an open letter to the black community, urging all to support President Obama.

ALSO: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III speaks out about Marriage Equality

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NAACP Board Votes in Support of Same-Sex Marriage


The NAACP made waves on Saturday evening when its board of directors voted to support same-sex marriage, releasing a statement that “civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law” and citing the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as a reason for backing marriage equality.

“The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all people,” said Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the NAACP’s board of directors, in a statement. “We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law.”

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