You’ve seen some pretty amazing things in your life.

In your travels around the world or around the block, there’s always something to view and some things you wish you’d never seen.

And that’s what Jovan Mosley was thinking after the police picked him up: wishing he’d never been witness to a murder. In the new book, “Long Way Home” by Laura Caldwell, what Jovan saw cost him almost a quarter of his life.

On the night that Henry Thomas Jr. lost his life, things were going well for him.

In days of old, when someone messed with a King, he was usually thrown in the dungeon without trial or jury. Justice was swift and mercy was rare.

That’s because, oftentimes, the King held things together. Loved or hated, he was a force to be reckoned with. He had power and powerful friends, and messing with him wasn’t advised. On that subject, little has changed through the centuries, as you’ll see in “Burial for a King” by Rebecca Burns.

Xernona Clayton was working on an unusual project the night that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot: she was trying to set up a meeting between King and Calvin Craig of the Ku Klux Klan. As King’s director of public relations, Clayton was used to hoaxes; when a waitress handed her a note that said Dr. King had been shot, she ignored it.

The latest iPhone, netbook and iPad are all the rage for today’s teenagers. Many can’t get through a day without checking their Myspace or Facebook pages or tweeting to their friends about the latest thing that has happened in their lives.

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And African-American teenagers are leading that parade.

According to a recent Nielsen Report, African-Americans are more apt to purchase cell phones and their appliances than any other ethnic group in the United States with a collective buying power in excess of $800 billion annually.

Although Blacks are eager buyers of technology, they are not the creators or owners of the commodity.

NEW YORK (AP)—Aretha Franklin’s unheralded recordings at Columbia Records will get another perspective with an expansive 12-disc box set that makes the argument that the Queen of Soul was already royalty before her career-defining hits at Atlantic Records.

“The conventional wisdom is that Columbia failed to see that this was a singular artist with a universal vision, that her material was mismatched with her talent, that her arrangers were too heavy-handed,” said Leo Sacks, producer of “Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia,” due out March 22.

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“There were enough moments at Columbia where it’s clear that she came very close to catching the moment, and I think the listener is going to have to make their own judgment to see whether her Columbia years have been unfairly diminished.”