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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – 19 Action News gets action in downtown Cleveland. The illegal public banners have finally taken down. They popped up all over downtown, dozens of huge banners hanging from the sides of buildings. One problem, only six of them were authorized. The massive banners are big money, thousands of dollars a month, so sign companies […]

ELYRIA, OH (WOIO) – A prayer and vigil held Monday night for a North Ridgeville teen hit and killed while riding his bike this weekend. Cops say the driver of a van struck 14 year old Alexander Sismour’s back tire of his dirt bike on Route 57. Sismour and a few friends were riding bikes to McDonalds, crossing at […]

According to authorities, rapper Gucci Mane will be returning to jail after pleading guilty to battery and other charges. DeKalb County Solicitor-General Sherry Boston said Tuesday that Mane, pleaded guilty to two counts of battery, two counts of reckless conduct and one count of disorderly conduct. The police report states that Mane pushed 36 year […]

Arizona, a state that is regularly accused of having a serious issue with people of color, received another stain to its reputation. Last week, four white female students at Arizona State University showed up to a football game wearing Black face. The school asked students to wear all-Black attire to celebrate the new uniforms in […]

Earlier today, Beyonce and Solange Knowles were spotted at the J. Crew Spring 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz New York fashion week, followed by an appearance at the Rodarte show.   Beyonce camouflaged her pregnant belly with a gold sequin dress while Solange funked it up a bit  in a pink, blue and green color combination. Necole Bitchie

When Cory Booker was elected mayor of Newark in 2006 the overwhelming reaction was this is a perfect match. Here is a proud city, battered but never beaten, now being led by a brilliant, motivated and highly educated public servant. Their ambitions and aspirations appeared to be in sync.

UPDATE: An autopsy performed Friday reported that Hardt died of peritonitis, a severe abdominal inflammation initiated by a bacterial infection in her colon, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. According to the medical examiner’s office, infections from the injections in her face did not cause her death, which was ruled to be natural. **** A south […]

An Atlanta man is using discounts to encourage Black women to wear their hair natural. Joey Digital, an Atlanta club promoter who has openly expressed his love for natural hair online, is offering discounts for various events for women with natural hair that use the code “natural” when buying tickets. Joey Digital has expressed his […]

T.I. (a.k.a. Clifford Harris, Jr.) remains in prison at the moment for supposedly violating the terms of his furlough, but his lawyer and manager are disputing the Bureau of Prisons report that has landed him in hot water.

Yesterday we released exclusive evidence that Swizz Beatz has been sexting with another woman while married to Alicia Keys and today we hear that woman’s side of the story. In a statement exclusively made to BOSSIP.com Chris, the woman Swizz was sexting, says in her own words: I’m only making this statement because I’m being put out […]

Slain high school basketball star Tayshana Murphy may have been targeted by the two gunmen who shot and killed her and her brother, according to authorities. Earlier reports alleged Murphy was a victim of mistaken identity, but police now believe her and her brother were targeted as retaliation for an earlier assault between individuals at […]

Spectators cheered the prospect of  letting uninsured Americans die during Monday’s CNN Tea Party debate. “That’s what’s freedom is all about,” Republican presidential nominee Ron Paul said when CNN’s Wolf Blizter asked who should pay when uninsured Americans encounter catastrophic illness. “He should do whatever he wants to do,” Paul said. My advice to him is […]