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Akron — Yesterday and today, Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere have been hopping with news about an Akron, Ohio mom jailed for sending her daughters to school in a suburban district where she did not live. Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single mom living in public housing, was sentenced to 10 days of jail, three years of […]
Meagan Good is keeping herself relevant in more ways than one. She debuted her character “Parker” on Season 4 Of The Game and has started a singing group called “Hello Girls.” The girls attended “The Boosters Club” premiere in L.A last night. NecoleBitchie.com is reporting that she is also working on a movie. The popular […]
There are a rising number of qualified black yoga instructors. I was delighted to have recently received a Twitter “mention” from @ivywriter / Kellea Tibbs who inspired this post about exploring her Yoga journey. “Finding these people has been very inspiring and helps make me want to make a deeper cultural connection to the art […]
The other half of the Clipse Malice will be releasing a book on Valentines day February 14, 2011 titled “Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind, and Naked.” I do know Malice has been planning this move for a while and I am glad to see the book being published. Malice offered this statement about “Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, […]
New York– A Queens woman is blaming police for her 72-year-old husband’s fatal heart attack over a week ago, when she said they tried to write her a summons for not wearing a seat belt. The widow Doris Hudson claims the officers made her husband walk a half mile home to get her I.D. in […]
Ghostface Killah quietly released one of the best hip-hop albums of 2010 in December. Apollo Kids is Ghost’s most satisfying album since 2006’s Fishscale. The album’s first single, “2getha Baby” has received lots of love from fans.
NEW YORKÂ — The Dow crossed the 12,000 mark for the first time since June 2008 as U.S. stocks nudged higher Wednesday. Investors were parsing through the latest corporate results and awaiting the Federal Reserve’s latest pronouncement on the nation’s economy. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) rose 37 points, or 0.3%, hitting its highest […]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania rapper Wiz Khalifa announced the name of his highly anticipated major label debut on January 26th during a chat with fans via uStream.
State of the Union speeches tend to be forgotten almost as soon as they are delivered. The addresses tend to be a litany of (endless) policy proposals that never reach see the light of day and create a rhetorical formula that keeps presidents from reaching the heights of other speeches they give during their time […]
Arizona — Taco Bell’s meat has come under fire, but if only 36 percent of the “beef” is actually beef by volume, what’s the rest made of? Ranging from cocoa power to terms as generic as “spices,” the other 64 percent is made up of a wide range of fillers, extenders and preservatives. Can this […]
North Carolina — A 53-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina woman is fighting federal charges of enslaving a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant. According to the federal indictment, Lucinda Lyons Shackleford agreed to provide care for the teenage boy – including accommodations, food, and clothing. Instead of providing care, though, the US Justice Department alleges that Shackleford forced the […]