Dr. Jan Adams, the unlucky (to say the least) surgeon who performed the breast reduction and tummy tuck that may have caused Donda West’s death, just got unluckier. The Discovery Health Channel decided to stop airing Plastic Surgery the show that Adams hosted for five years.

With talk show appearances and his own show, Adams had been riding the wave of plastic surgery popularity until his bubble very publicly burst early this week. According to a story in the Washington Post a few months ago, plastic surgery is getting more and more popular within the black community, with black plastic surgery patients rising from 16 percent in 2002 to 23 percent in 2004. Blacks are seeking out surgeons who specialize in “ethnic plastic surgery” — meaning they preserve ethnic characteristics when they do facial work and pay special attention to issues such as scarring and keloids during procedures like breast reductions and tummy tucks.

This is possibly why Donda West sought out Adams, a prominent/well-known black surgeon. Who knows? Adams might have performed the surgery by the book, and West might have met the same fate no matter who she had gone to. But as evidence builds against Adams, you’ve got to wonder what would have happened if Adams was a plastic surgeon with a board certification on his resume instead of television credits.

Either TMZ has a crazy vendetta against Dr. Jan Adams or Dr. Jan Adams is a crazy. But probably both, right? Consider the evidence: since Stereohyped’s post a few hours ago about TMZ’s tireless coverage of Donda West’s death, there have been nine new posts on Adams and West. They uncovered a variety of malpractice suits, a patient who claims he got her pregnant, a TV clip of him saying that most complications happen weeks or months after surgery, and his DUI mugshot.

Are we done yet?

It’s all Donda West all the time over at TMZ today, where the illustrious editors have shifted their focus to Dr. Jan Adams, the black plastic surgeon who conducted Kanye West’s mom’s tummy tuck and breast reduction. They report that Adams, who has made appearances on Oprah and is the host of the Discovery Health Channel show Plastic Surgery: Before and After, is not certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and almost had his license revoked by the California Medical Board after a series of DUIs.

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• New York magazine noticed a little too late that we weren’t ready to be cynical about Donda West’s death just yet. [Jossip]

• Also, TMZ does its best to honor that privacy request the West family made. [TMZ]

• In case you missed yesterday’s Breaking Into Fashion forum. [SYB]

• Usher’s new song sounds like the final cries of a mortally wounded robot. [CL]

• Right. I wish them all the happiness. [C&D]

Kanye West’s mother, Donda West, died during cosmetic surgery at an LA hospital yesterday. She was only 58. Kanye, who had just landed in London when he heard the news, hopped back on a plane to the states to be with his family.

Their close relationship was obvious, from his references to her in songs like “Hey Mama,” to her book, Raising Kanye: Life Lessons From the Mother of a Hip-Hop Star. Since 2004, Donda West has been helping Kanye manage his career, but before that she was an English professor at Chicago State University. You can send Kanye some love via his blog. [Image Source: WI]

P.S. In other R.I.P. news, Norman Mailer died in NYC on Saturday.

Yolanda “La La” Brown, a 21-year-old R&B singer, was found shot to death along with her music producer boyfriend, JeTannue Clayborn, in their Milwaukee studio. Brown, best known for her appearance on the Lyfe Jennings song, “S.E.X.,” and Clayborn were dead for about a day before they were discovered.

Besides the Lyfe Jennings song, I’m not familiar with Brown, but apparently she’s a local celebrity in Milwaukee. Sad.

[MyFox]

• Oh. Now the major magazines want to write about The Wire — after the last season’s finished filming. [NYer]

• African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame? Who knew? [AHN]

• White supremacists and anti-racism activists faced had a face-off in Canada recently over a new voting law. [CBC]

• R.I.P. Big Moe.

• The 20 scariest anti-gay activists. Scarier still — most of them are surely anti-other things, too. [QT]

• J. L. Sudduth, a famous black folk artist known for producing homemade paint out of mud, died at the age of 97 in Alabama. []

• Our elderly are living out their days in poorer quality nursing homes. [Reuters]

• As long as black children flood the foster care system, black adults probably need to step up and become foster parents. []

• Nigerians still get the worst rap in black America. [AA]

• A confirmation of what everyone knew: a once black city ain’t really all that black anymore. [LAT]

Eddie Griffin, a 25-year-old NBA player with a history of DUIs, died early Friday when a train collided with his car. Griffin had apparently driven over the railroad barrier into the path of the oncoming train. Last year, Griffin crashed his car into an SUV while he was drunk and masturbating to porn, according to witnesses.

This is sad, but, uh…I’ve got nothing.

[SI]

Call her the Rosa Parks the First.

In 1944, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy was arrested when she wouldn’t give up her seat to a white person on a Greyhound bus from Southern Virginia to Baltimore. Her arrest eventually lead to a Supreme Court ruling prohibiting bus companies from discriminating against passengers on interstate trips.

She died Friday at the age of 90.

Elementary schoolers don’t know her name like they know Rosa Parks, but her bravery — 10 years before the Montgomery Bus Boycott — helped to pave the way for the Civil Rights movement as we know it.

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