Dollars in the Afterlife: 10 Highest Earning Dead Celebrities

Recently, Forbes released its top celebrity earners for the period June 2012 to June 2013. Madonna ranked number one in earnings on the Celebrity 100 list at $125 million. What’s interesting is that for the third time in the last five years, the top earning celebrity in the world comes from the afterlife with $160 million in earnings.

I’m sure you’ll be surprised to discover who ranks on the list of the top ten earning dead celebrities. Take a look:

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Former Congressman Mel Reynolds Deported from Zimbabwe

Mel Reynolds, former Democratic member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Illinois, was arrested in Zimbabwe after state media reported he was found with pornographic videos and pictures at a local hotel. In addition to his $24,500 of unpaid hotel bills, Reynolds is being investigated for living in the country without a valid visa. He's been in the country since November 2013.

Reynolds, a former Rhodes scholar, was a fast-rising star in the U.S. Democratic party when he was forced to resign in 1995 after being convicted of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography.

Child sexual predator Reynolds pled guilty to the visa charges, but the porn charges were dropped. He's expected to be freed and deported as early as next Tuesday. He had hoped to run in Illinois for Jesse Jackson Jr's congressional seat.

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The "Angry Black Woman" Speaks

I guess you could call me an angry black woman. I sometimes feel so bad that the media talks negatively about me all the time and even our First Lady Michelle Obama has been referred to in those same terms. It seems that few bother to understand why the angry black woman evolved.

People often refer to Dr. King’s “Dream” and assume a collective reality. The dictionary defines a dream as a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions occurring during sleep; a dream is a goal or an aim; a dream is a wild fantasy or something of unreal beauty; a dream is to conceive something remotely. I noticed that the word dream is listed somewhere between dreadful and dreary. Yes, even though I’m a black woman, I have hopes and dreams, just like everyone else. If your dreams have been shattered, you might be angry too. For some of us, struggling each day, life is not a dream, it’s a nightmare.

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Paula Deen: She's Back!

"The Paula Deen brand is alive and well."

So says Jahm Najafi, head of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Najafi Cos, which just invested between $75 million and $100 million to fund Paula Deen Ventures.

You probably recall Paula's fall from grace less than a year ago for using the "N" word and planning a "plantation-style wedding". While embroiled in a lawsuit with an employee, 67 year old Paula lost her contract with the Food Network and 12 other major accounts including Walgreen's, J. C. Penney, and Smithfield contracts. She gave a teary apology on the "Today Show" and faded into the sunset.

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Blacks Receiving Nobel Prize in Economics and Literature

In 1895, five Nobel prizes were established in the will of Alfred Nobel: Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics and Physiology or Medicine. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets ($186 million in US currency) to endow the prizes and associated administration.The prize in Economics was established in 1968 and is endowed by Sweden's central bank.

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