#Trending: Palin’s Fey vs. Fey’s Palin

Palin & Fey are parodying each other.

Fresh off the heels of Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin making her return to Saturday Night Live, the real Sarah Palin decided to do her own take on Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon from the TV series 30 Rock.

While parodying Fey in her own way, Palin was also promoting her latest book, Sweet Freedom: A Devotional.

Meet 31 Rock’s Lynn Melon with appearances by John McCain and Lindsay Graham too.

Also check out Fey’s Palin returning to SNL alongside two Hillary Clintons. Fey hosted SNL with her Sisters co-star Amy Poehler.

Chime in: What did you think of parodies? Who takes the parody crown?

#ConversationStarter: MC FLOTUS on the Track

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Just call her MC FLOTUS. The First Lady of the United States has gone viral. Michelle Obama just released a PSA where she raps alongside Saturday Night Live’s Jay Pharaoh. The PSA encourages individuals to consider education post high school.  Check it out below.

This isn’t the first time the First Lady has caught the attention of the social media generation. In a effort to get kids to eat healthy the Chicago native once hooped it up with LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh; she also taught the Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell that eating right and working out isn’t “ew!” 

#ConversationStarter: What do you think about the First Lady’s newest PSA? Do you have a favorite of all the PSAs she has done?

#ConversationStarter: Hoopin’ with the FLOTUS.

Check this out:

The Miami Heat and First Lady Michelle Obama team up for a new Let’s Move PSA. Her reaction at the end makes me chuckle; I can’t picture another FLOTUS doing this PSA. Can you? If so who?

Also since it’s a health related  PSA, what gets you moving?  How do you stay health and fit?

#ConversationStarter: Betty & Coretta

Lifetime breaks away from the crime, murder and the romantic plot lines this February to tell the story of the friendship between two Civil Rights wives—Betty Shabazz & Coretta Scott King.

Hollywood’s Angela Bassett will play King and music’s Mary J. Blige will play Shabazz.

Watch the preview below.

From the Washington Post:

The film tells the story of the strong, evolving friendship between Shabazz and King, as they forge ahead to raise the ten children (Shabazz had six and King had four) left fatherless after the tragic assassinations of their husbands. It shows their courage as they braved the danger from black anger and white hate and how their commitment to the human rights movement propelled them to leadership in their own right. For the first time in one place, their surrogates give voice to whom or what killed their husbands.

Betty & Coretta premieres February 2 at 8pm ET.

We know Angela Bassett’s range she’s played everyone from Rosa Parks to Betty Shabazz (in Malcolm X).

The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul has had supporting acting roles before but now she’s taking lead as Shabazz.

Chime in: If you’re reading this before you watch how do you think Mary J. will fare? If you’re reading after, how do you think she did?

#ConversationStarter: First Lady Michelle Obama Rocks A New Hairstyle.

First Lady Michelle Obama just celebrated her 49th birthday.

Malia and Sasha’s mom debuted the new hairstyle on her big day. 

What do you think?

Taking a line from WBOC’s Denise Sawyer is the “First Lady ‘BANG’ing?”

First Lady Michelle Obama at January 2013’s Kid’s Inaugral.

Check out her 2012 style in this vid from the Huffington Post.

First African-American Marines Receive Highest Honor.

Group of Montford Point Marines.

From MarineCorpsTimes.com: Montford Marines train with artillery in New River, North Carolina in April of 1945 (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The 368 surviving Marines of Montford Point received the highest civilian honor in Washington, D.C. today—the congressional gold medal.

The men received the medal 63 years after the training camp closed in 1949.

Montford Point was a training camp exclusively created for African-Americans in 1942 during World War II.

“They answered our nation’s call at a time when our society was deeply divided along racial lines,” Rep. Corrine Brown said in a statement.

The 368 will also be honored, tomorrow morning, in parade given by the Commandant of the Marine Corps at the Washington Marine Barracks.

Read more here.