LOS ANGELES — Allan Guei, a high school basketball star from Compton has decided to donate the $40,000 dollar prize he won in a free-throw contest to the contestants he beat. Rivals High School reports: Guei, a star player on the basketball team who is headed to Cal-State Northridge on a full scholarship, said he […]
MONTICELLO, Miss. — Cory Maye, a prisoner who was sentenced to death then life in prison for killing a police officer that he believed was a home invader, will be released from prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. The Huffington Post reports: Shortly after midnight on December 26, 2001, Maye, then 21, was drifting off […]
Despite as dumb and narrow-minded as we're supposed to be, Black people find it in our hearts to care about more than... well, we're supposed to, I guess would be the best way of saying it.
NEW YORK —Kenneth Montgomery, lawyer for the “Monumental 5,” the group of hip-hop party-goers who allege that they were victims of racially motivated police brutality at a concert here last week, said the unprovoked violence was the result of overly aggressive officers who became enraged when their harassment of patrons was caught on amateur video. […]
The only Democratic president ever re-elected had advice for the current president on his debt ceiling talks: “Don’t Blink.” Former president Clinton urged President Obama to not allow the Republicans to get the upper hand in debt negotiation talks. “This is the political equivalent of the government shutdown when I was president,” Clinton offered, leaning […]
KHARTOUM — Sudanese journalist Fatima Ghazali has been sentenced to one month in prison on Tuesday for writing an article about the alleged rape of an activist by security forces. Sudan’s constitution guarantees journalists freedom of speech, however, many have been detained without charge and papers have faced censorship. Ghazali was given the choice to […]
Former alleged Nation of Islam member, and currently incarcerated federal felon, Clayton Hill has allegedly confessed to his role as an accessory after the fact to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G. In his account with HipHopDX, also to be released in his e-book “Diary Of An Ex-Terrorist,” Hill implicates himself and members of the […]
On July 1st @wizardcud’s “Cud Life Tour” (With @Chip216) made a stop here in Cleveland.
Kem opened up day 3 of the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. While performing “If It’s Love” Kem brought out New Orlean’s own Ledisi to cover what Chrisette Michele’s part from the original studio version of the record. Check it out below! SOURCE: @ITSYAGIRLAC ALL ACCESS PASS Kyte.Embed.path=”http://media.kyte.tv”;Kyte.Embed.altpath=”http://www.kyte.tv”;window.kyteplayer=new Kyte.Player(“”,{appKey:”default”,width:416,height:312,p:”1763″,s:1402415,tbid:”421″}); MORE ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL COVERAGE: […]
A new article on TheGrio talks about the viral phenomenon that has hit the mainstream called planking. Planking is when people either lay on an object or on top of each other with their face down, usually in a public place, and then post the photos online. It became a craze after a 20-year-old fell […]
Time Magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin has been under fire for calling President Obama a “D**k” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last week. Writer Michelle Goldberg says Halperin’s actions were in part due to him “being so cowed by conservatives that he’s offended by Obama’s mild poke at the GOP.” She continues: His response embodies all that’s […]
Casey Anthony, the woman from Orlando Florida accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter, Kaylee Anthony has been found not guilty of murdering her daughter. She was only found guilty of providing false information to an officer.