(NNPA)—Fox News and LL Cool J found themselves at odds during the week of March 29 over the cable channel’s use of the New York rapper’s image to promote a new show—one on which he won’t be appearing.

LL COOL J

The news channel aired an ad promoting Sarah Palin’s new show, “Real American Stories,” featuring an image of LL Cool J. However, he claims he never gave permission for an old interview to be used for the ad, and was never contacted about being on the new show.

Week of April 9-15

April 9

1865—Black regiments lead an assault upon and eventually capture a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. Nine regiments led by Gen. John Hawkins smashed through Confederate defenses at Forth Blakely, Ala. The 68th Division of USCT (United States Colored Troops) had some of the highest casualties of the Civil War.

PAUL ROBESON, JOSEPHINE BAKER

by Jennifer Peltz

NEW YORK (AP)—Saying low-slung trousers give their wearers a bad image, a state lawmaker is making the point with some images of his own.

Brooklyn residents awoke April 1 to the sight of two “Stop the Sag” billboards—and more were on the way, organizers said. The signs show two men in jeans low enough to display their underwear. The billboards were bankrolled by state Sen. Eric Adams, who also made an online video to send his message: “You can raise your level of respect if you raise your pants.”

To hear him talk, one might take Anthony Hardy Williams for a Republican, but that’s because the life-long Democrat says experience has taught him no party has a monopoly on good ideas—or bad.

ANTHONY HARDY WILLIAMS

As a former PepsiCo employee and small business owner, he says government can’t grow an economy, but it can create business-friendly environments that can. And as a student who struggled to get Cs until he went to a private school, he favors anything that rescues failing inner-city youths from bad public schools—including vouchers.