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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A driver opened fire on a crowd of people surrounding the tour bus of rapper French Montana after a concert in Philadelphia, killing one person and injuring another, according to police. The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. Thursday as the entourage had arrived at a hotel near Penn’s Landing after the rapper […]
Growing up in Palmer Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C., in the 1970s, youngsters had an option to play Boys Club football, basketball, jam to the go-go lyrics of the late Chuck Brown at “The Squad Room,” or box. Palmer Park’s 1972 amateur boxing team was notorious. They produced champions in each weight class, […]
In Michael Vick’s memoir, “Finally Free,” he details the arrogance and transgressions that sent him to jail and almost derailed one of the most prolific NFL careers in the league. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback had a tough last year when the Eagles struggled through a losing season, weak coaching, an ineffective offensive line and other maladies, […]
Aswad Ayinde (pictured) , the New Jersey father who stands accused of raping and impregnating three of his five daughters when they were all minors, is currently facing his second of five jury trials. In this proceeding, the 54-year-old is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault, and two counts of sexual assault. His former spouse, Beverly Ayinde, testified at […]
The ladies have it – Brandy, Mary J. Blige and Erykah Badu are heading to a town near you. If you prefer comedy instead, the Wayans’ “Dance Flick” is on BET this weekend. The movies are a little scarce on Black folks this week, but hold tight, Tyler Perry’s ” Confessions of A Marriage Counselor,” […]
It’s All-Star time. “Celebrity Apprentice” is back and this time, someone is playing for our team. Actress/model and TV personality Claudia Jordan, one of this season’s celebrity all-stars will be playing for the Tom Joyner Foundation, which awards scholarships to college students in need attending HBCU’s (historically black colleges and universities) and with the help of […]
Jamie Foxx attended the vigil to honor the life of Trayvon Martin in New York City. It’s been a year since Martin lost his life at the hands of George Zimmerman via gun violence masquerading as self-defense. Jamie Foxx has been an advocate for Martin and his passion showed through as he sang, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper” […]
So apparently last night February, 26, 2013, Dave Chappelle was on stage doing his thing at New York City’s Comedy Cellar, when who but Chris Rock jumped on stage and joined Dave for the rest of the show! According to Uproxx.com, Chappelle and Rock riffed on everything from Prince to Kevin Hart to Jay – Z’s recent Obama fundraiser at the 40/40 Club. Then they proceeded to call Arsenio Hall and Lenny Kravitz while on stage! […]
Allen Iverson is looking all kinds of bad with this whole divorce situation. Not only is he trying to get out of giving all his money to his ex-wife, and isn’t a good parent, but he’s also a cheap client. TMZ reports that the washed up ex-NBA star racked up a hefty attorney bill and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Toni Morrison, speaking Wednesday to dozens of Google employees holding laptops and smartphones, shared her vision for how she would turn the search engine leader into a literary character. “It’s like a big, metal, claw-y machine in ‘Transformers,'” she said, to much laughter, during a lunchtime gathering at Google’s Manhattan […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a settlement divvying up the multimillion-dollar estate of James Brown, saying a former attorney general didn’t follow the late soul singer’s wishes in putting together the deal. Attorney General Henry McMaster brokered a settlement in 2009 that split Brown’s estate, giving nearly half […]
DETROIT (AP) — A judge sentenced a member of gospel music’s Winans family to nearly 14 years in prison Wednesday for an $8 million financial scam that was promoted in church pulpits. Two of Michael Winans Jr.‘s victims spoke in federal court, telling a judge that the scheme to sell Saudi Arabian oil bonds robbed […]
