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*The situation in Southern California, appears to be something like a scene out of “Training Day.” A manhunt is on across three states for a former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. He’s being held responsible for the shooting deaths of a woman and her fiance’ after a manifesto was discovered by LAPD that linked him to [...]
*The Guinness Book of World Records is filled to the brim with some of the most disturbing things a person can attempt to do to get attention…worldwide attention. But, what if there were one of those gross categories like eating cockroaches and you didn’t try for the Guinness, but just a local contest. Would you [...]
*One of the most devastating car accidents that has ever happened occurred Sunday. The car crash is the second to happen in nearly this very same location. Another crash happened in 2006, along this stretch of highway. One family has been destroyed over the loss of seven family members that died in a horrific accident [...]
*On the very broad shoulders of Stanley G. Robertson, stands a generation of African American producers, writers, directors, actors, technicians and executives, who are perhaps, unaware of the first black Vice-President of both a major TV network and a motion picture company, who worked tirelessly behind the scenes for over 50 years to make minority [...]
*We just reported on the relevance of the movie “Do the Right Thing” and how the racial climate hasn’t significantly changed since that time. We are also watching Troy Davis face the death penalty today as the U.S. courts completely ignore evidence of the man’s innocence. Now, we have a hate crime that will certainly be under the microscope of [...]
*A lot of us are fans of the hit show “Spartacus: Blood and Sand.” It is similar to the action-packed, cinematography wonder of the ground-breaking film “300.″ The star of the Showtime series, while appearing strong on the show, was quite ill behind the scenes in his private life. (more…)
*The 1987 UNLV Runnin’ Rebel team ran a perfectly exciting basketball season all the way to the Final Four. Jerry Tarkanian was the coach and the whole nation was watching as this team exhibited professional ability in their exhilarating season. They rode high with the assistance of a major power forward that will always be remembered. Armen [...]
*In case you don’t know who she is, Shannon Tavarez, played the role of ‘Nala in the Broadway spectacular The Lion King. We were first introduced to her through Rihanna and Alicia Keys when they told us about this special young lady and her illness. She was battling acute myeloid leukemia and donors were few and [...]
*A lot of things wash up on shore at the beach, but how many times have you heard of one of them being a blue whale? The whale washed up on a beach in Bean Hollow State Park near Pescadero where students were privy to a rare find. The gi-normous blue whale and its fetus were laying on the [...]
*How does the song go, Mr. Keith Sweat? “Somethin’ somethin’ … somethin’ somethin’ just ain’t right! It just ain’t right!” Brittany Murphy died in her home in December from a number of things related to her respiratory system. And now, five months later, her husband is found dead in their home. The media tried to [...]
*A former pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers, Jose Lima, apparently died of a sudden heart attack in his sleep Sunday morning at the age of 37. He was a beloved player for the team. According to Yahoo! Sports Lima’s record precedes him. Lima, born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, in “won 89 games over 13 major [...]
*Carolyn M. Rodgers was a groundbreaking poet who gave focus to the issues of African American identity and culture in her work. Her poems were central to the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s. According to the Los Angeles Times, her sister, Nina R. Gordon, told the paper she died of cancer in early April at the [...]
*Soon as you saw her name, you couldn’t help but hear her song “Put Your Records On” in your mind, right? Corinne Bailey Rae is the celebrated artist we grew to love in such a short period of time before the love of her life died suddenly in a drug overdose incident in 2008. Since [...]
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