Celebrity snitches are dishing that the founder of the phrase “nappy-headed hoes” has hired Martin Garbus, a high profile First Amendment attorney, to fight his ousting from CBS last month. Read the rest of this entry »
Black Enterprise Magazine has released the 2007 List Of Best Cities For Blacks, with Washington, DC taking the lead. Read the rest of this entry »
Celebrity snitches are whispering about bad blood between Rev. Al Sharpton and Def Jam’s parent company Universal Music Group. Universal Music Group has demanded that its $15,000 donation to one of the Rev’s National Action Conference dinner, which would have honored record ex L.A Reid, be returned ASAP, according to New York tattles. Read the rest of this entry »
“Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you, not any more… GAME OVER” Read the rest of this entry »
Hip-hop heads appreciated Rev. Al Sharpton’s vocally tongue-lashing of ousted “Imus In The Morning” host Don Imus, but industry insiders say they’re telling the civil rights activist to keep his mouth shut when it comes to censoring them. Read the rest of this entry »
Thirty-three students have been killed and another twenty-eight injured in a mass shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech University in rural Blacksburg, Virginia. The still unidentified gunman, an Asian-American male, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. An unidentified second male was also arrested-no word on what role he had in the massacre. The shooting is being called the deadliest mass shooting attack in U.S history. Read the rest of this entry »
Romeo will be playing b-ball for the University of Southern California in the Fall. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s a slow news day, y’all. Check out this article in the Village Voice on hip-hop’s effect on New York’s lesbian lifestyle and gay aspiring rappers. Read the rest of this entry »
Imus is ass-out at CBS, but the controversy over whether hip-hop is to blame when White man remove their Klan’s hood in public rages on.
Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, of The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, also issued statements. Their focus, however was on the connection Imus has made between his own controversial remarks and the language used in hip-hop music. Read the rest of this entry »
Don Imus was just fired by CBS Radio in the wake of his rascist remarks, meaning he will no longer be on the air, either on television or radio. Good, but he still owes those young women at Rutgers an apology. Read the rest of this entry »
