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What does Omarosa like to do between the sheets? Find out with this exclusive video clip from TV One’s new hit show “DONALD J. TRUMP PRESENTS THE ULTIMATE MERGER.”
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Johnson C. Smith University plans to add a private high school to its campus, part of an ongoing effort to revitalize the Beatties Ford Road corridor and play an earlier role in the lives of schoolchildren. University President Ron Carter says JCSU will partner with Regent Schools of the Carolinas, a private Christian school system.
Read MoreVIDEO: Big Boi Drops Talks About His New Album 92Q in Baltimore
Post by DJ Rham in Videos on Jun 17, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Big Boi dropped into the 92Q studios in Baltimore. Big Boi talked with Kelson, “The Urban Informer,” about Outkast breaking up, dog breeding, not performing at the VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors, the meaning behind his many aliases and his new album “Sir Lucious Left Foot: the Son of Chico Dusty.”
Read MoreP-Funk Guitarist, Garry “Diaper Man” Shider, Dead At 56
Post by DJ Rham in It's All Black Music on Jun 17, 2010 at 10:58 am
Garry Shider, the musical director for George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic band known for wearing a diaper on stage, died June 16th at the age of 56.
Read MoreThe Greatest Soundtracks Of The Blaxploitation Era
Post by DJ Rham in It's All Black Music on Jun 3, 2010 at 1:47 pm
With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.
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A rep for “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman told TMZ that Coleman is unconscious and on life support after collapsing earlier this week in Utah.
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Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. The government has offered to buy his parents a car if he stops, but they claim he gets too angry without smokes. Plus, he looks fine!
“He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem,” says his dad. Well except that he’s a tad overweight and so unfit from the flab and the smoking — which he’s been doing since his 30-year-old
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Old school hip-hop is being preserved through the relaunch of the Sedgewick & Cedar. Founded in recognition of hip-hop’s birthplace, 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx, the first iteration of the line featured vintage flyers from the very first parties thrown by hip-hop’s vanguard like Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc.
Read MoreBlack Woman Meets Kin Of Slavemasters That Owned Her Ancestors
Post by DJ Rham in Photos on May 22, 2010 at 9:00 am
Betty Kilby was gripped with apprehension. Descendants of the white family that enslaved her kin were coming to dinner.
She scrolled through a mental Rolodex of relatives who might flip out. Her brothers had already asked her: Why would you want to meet the family of those who held our loved ones in bondage?
“When they ask that question,” she says, “you kind of scratch your head. It makes sense. Why would you want to do that?”
Read MoreThe state’s unemployment rate declined from 11.1 percent in March to 10.8 percent in April. Professional, business services and government jobs showed improvement. Leisure and hospitaly business declined by 3,100 jobs.
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