Music

NEW YORK (AP) — A once-rising rapper was convicted Tuesday of a 1993 killing after recently telling police he’d shot someone while trying to rob him years ago. G. Dep hugged his lawyer after hearing the jury’s verdict in an unusual trial that came about only because of his confession, which he didn’t deny making […]

Entertainment News

TMZ came across some interesting information about the Accura NSX Big Game ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno. They got hold of the casting call document, and the car maker was very specific/exclusionary about their casting need of an African-American car dealer. According to the document, the role would be played by a “nice […]

TV & Film

Although Olivier Martinez confirmed his engagement to Halle Berry in March, the Oscar winner herself has kept silent on the subject – until now. “Who knew [I’d get engaged again]?” she said with a laugh to Extra on Saturday, during her first red carpet appearance since Martinez proposed. “I swore it off, right? Never say […]

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The objects displayed in Michigan’s newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque — a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense that it makes visitors cringe. That’s the idea behind the Jim […]

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Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation’s largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate contact with the academic benefits of social networking. At least 40 school districts nationwide have approved social media policies. Schools in New York City […]

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Lenny Kravitz has taken a childhood compunction to decorate his bedroom and turned it into another creative endeavor. To rocker, songwriter and actor, add designer. Kravitz created a series of chairs for Kartell based on Philippe Starck’s iconic “Mademoiselle” armchair, clad, like, at times the rocker himself, in python, leather or fur. And he designed […]

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Explosive testimony in a New York City police department discrimination suit alleges that a pair of high-ranking superiors who once oversaw the day-to-day operations of an elite anti-gun unit ruled with such an iron hand they arbitrarily delegated which white suspects should be treated with respect, even as they routinely browbeat underlings into thinking all […]

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The Florida judge presiding over the Trayvon Martin shooting case removed herself Wednesday after the attorney for defendant George Zimmerman argued she had a possible conflict of interest that related to her husband. Judge Kenneth M. Lester Jr. will preside over the case. The next judge who would be in the court rotation, John D. […]

National News

Rocker and gun rights champion Ted Nugent says he will meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to explain his raucous remarks about what he called Barack Obama’s “evil, America-hating administration” — comments some critics interpreted as a threat against the president. “The conclusion will be obvious that I threatened no one,” Nugent told radio […]

National News

“The leading cause of death among black males between the ages of 15 and 24 is homicide. Every four out of five black victims of violent crimes identified their assailant as another black person,” says Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. This quotation appears in the video “You Will Know,” a song performed by […]

National News

House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that President Barack Obama “checked out” last Labor Day and has been running for reelection, rather than governing, ever since. “He’s spent the last six months campaigning from one end of the country to the other, instead of working with members of both political parties here in Washington to […]

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It looks like it’s bag-over-the-head time for Greg Kane again. Usually, it’s my fellow conservatives that inspire my bag-over-the-head moments. There was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2000, pulling a Harpo Marx routine while other justices asked probing questions about whether or not Florida’s electoral votes would go to Vice President Al Gore or […]