Meet Centino Kemp, a 22 years old, single and tattooed aspiring singer, currently best known for his Twitter rants in favor of gay rights and his rumored affair with Bishop Eddie Long — the embattled minister of Atlanta’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.
My — it looks like the Bishop was busy. No wonder he forked over $20 million to make this go away.
Need further proof that Black America is going to Hell in a handbasket? Feast your eyes on Exhibit A: Atlanta soul stirrer Creflo Dollar is heating up the blogosphere this Wednesday after video footage of a Sunday morning sermon, during which he feverishly defends accused child sex predator Bishop Eddie Long, went viral.
-The Great Migration Redux? Scores of African-Americans are leaving the nation’s major US cities — predominately those in the North and Midwest — for so-called greener pastures in the American South and suburbs.
The MLK holiday — first celebrated as a national holiday on Jan. 20, 1986 — is here and in commemoration check out the last speech from civil rights icon Martin Luther King, delivered the day before he was assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee in April 1968. On Nov. 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan approved the creation of the holiday and signed it into existence. In 2000, MLK Day was celebrated across all 50 states for the first time since its inception 14 years before!
Belts and wearing your trousers on your waist like a respectable gentleman is so 2000 and late! That’s why an enterprising inventor from Brooklyn, NY has devised a new solution that allows men to sag their pants — in essence baring their buttocks to the world — without tripping and breaking their necks: Introducing The Sagging Pants Garter.
General Larry Platt will not be pleased. Why yall?
Talk about insane courtroom spectacles! Back in the late ’80s, D’Atra (or Deitra) Hicks was one of the most talented young soul singers Harlem had ever seen. But after a few flopped albums, the crooner’s career went the way of most that lack the marketability and promotion to compete in the music industry.
Things have gone from bad to worse for Bishop Eddie Long. Long, one of the nation’s leading Black preachers, found himself embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit leveled by former parishoners — who claim they were manipulated into sex with Long as teenagers.