The Gulf Coast braced for a greasy and unwelcome tide Thursday as the region's largest oil spill in decades threatened the marshlands and beaches at the mouth of the Mississippi River."This Saturday is the first date we can go catch live bait," said Glenn Sanchez, who runs a marina in Hopedale, Louisiana. "If this was to happen, this could just devastate the whole of Louisiana."Hopedale is in what Sanchez calls the "big toe" of Louisiana, about...
Plies is building anticipation for his new album, Goon Affiliated, with a rather interesting giveaway promotion.Hip-hop’s favorite alleged high school valedictorian is giving away shopping sprees and iPads to those who enter his 25-day “Goon Affiliated Giveaway” contest.The prizes don’t stop there though…The rapper is also giving away mortgage payments and healthcare assistance as well.“My music is very much reflective of the ills of our community...
The season three opener of The Boondocks takes it back to the election of 2008, with various cast members being asked why they do (or don’t in the case of Uncle Ruckus) support Obama.New season starts this Sunday May 2nd on the Cartoon Network Adult Swim 10:30 p.m. Central Ti...
Named after the closing track of her latest "New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh," Erykah Badu has announced the dates for her 2010 North American tour, "Out My Mind, Just In Time." The trek will make stops at amphitheaters and concert halls beginning May 22 at Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore, MD, and wrapping up on June 24 at The Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas, NV.Badu will be joined by N.E.R.D., Bilal, Janelle Monae and The Roots drummer...
With time and patience a couple will learn the best way to navigate through each other’s communicative styles and learn the best time and approach to squash the beef … or better, avoid it all together! Too often we prematurely throw in the towel and abandon all attempts to talk, but that’s all reactionary and an unhealthy habit to start – doing this, growing apart is inevitable. At some point, we have to learn how to not take all spats personally...
I have seen a lot of ignorant things in my life, but this one may have found itself at the top! Rappers Jon Geezy & Parlae decided to show everyone in the world that they had money to blow by not only burning $100,000, but also putting it on youtube for the whole world to see.Not only is this HIGHLY ILLEGAL, but it might also be the dumbest thing anyone has ever done with $100-thousand dollars. Don't you have kids you can send to college, or...
PHOENIX (AP) -- A referendum drive and a lawsuit have emerged as potential road blocks to Arizona's tough new law on illegal immigration that has thrust the southwestern border state into the spotlight.The legal action set to be filed Thursday in federal court is aimed a preventing enforcement of the controversial measure, while the ballot question could put it on hold until 2012.Signed last week by Republican Governor Jan Brewer, the law requires...
Ice Cube is teaming up with Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster in the new film Rampart.The film, which is centered around the scandals that took place in the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s, showcases police misconducts in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang program including unprovoked shootings, beatings, planting of evidence, framing of suspects, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury and covering...
About 217,000 Graco cribs have been recalled, due to a malfunction that can entrap, suffocate or strangle infants and toddlers, federal safety officials announced Thursday.The recall includes so-called "drop side" wood cribs made by manufacturer LaJobi and branded with the Graco logo.217,000 drop side cribs that could suffocate or strangle infants are being recalled.Faulty hardware can cause the drop side to detach from the crib, creating a gap...
A tornado almost a mile wide tore through Mississippi on Saturday, raking cities from the central western border with Louisiana northeastward to Alabama, and causing significant injuries, a spokesman for the governor said."They're working to get to the people and rescue as many as they can," said Dan Turner, spokesman for Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. "What we have right now that we know of is damage in at least four counties with injuries --...
The three men found dead in a reportedly stolen Pontiac Grand Prix Wednesday night in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the South Side died of blunt force trauma in an assault, according to Thursday autopsy reports.The bodies of three men were found about 9:30 p.m. inside a vehicle on the street in the 2300 block of West 36th Street near the Belt Railway-CTA Orange Line viaduct.The men were dead on the scene and suffered multiple injuries from trauma,...
Adult Swim will soon be airing season 3 of 'The Boondocks'...finally! season 3 of 'The Boondocks' is set to air on May 2, 2010 on Adult Swim, and so it's time for the speculation to begin on what we can expect to see.So much has happened in the world since the last season (we have a black president now!), so I can't wait to see what (or, more importantly, who) Aaron McGruder takes on this time around. While you're waiting for season 3, you can check...
The brother of Oscar winner Mo'Nique said Monday on Oprah Winfrey's talk show that he molested the actress when they were children and he wants to apologize to her.Gerald Imes said on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that the molestation continued for a year or two, starting when he was 13 and Mo'Nique was 7 or 8."I abused and betrayed the trust of another sibling, my sister, my blood sister," Imes said. He apologized to the actress, saying "I'm sorry,...
Eleven workers missing from an offshore oil platform may not have escaped after a massive explosion, officials said Thursday.Crews continued to search by air and water for those missing from the Deepwater Horizon, which burned for nearly a day before sinking into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday.Adrian Rose, vice president of rig owner Transocean Ltd., said crew members who survived Tuesday's explosion indicated the missing may have been near the...
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who...
Dorothy Height, a leading civil rights pioneer of the 1960s, died Tuesday at age 98, Howard University Hospital confirmed.Height died at 3:41 a.m., said hospital spokesman Ron Harris. No cause of death was given.Height, who had been chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, worked in the 1960s alongside civil rights pioneers, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., future U.S. Rep. John Lewis and A. Philip Randolph....
T.I.’s recent trip to a middle school in Georgia didn’t sit too well with the parents of the students.From NBC 11 in AtlantaOut of jail and doing community service, Clifford “T.I.” Harris made a trip to Woodland Middle School in Henry County on March 5, an unwanted surprise for one family.Tom Myers was surprised when his daughter came home and told him that T.I. had been the speaker at the assembly on anti bullying. Myers told 11Alive News that...
Solar, Guru’s partner, expressed sadness over the loss.“The world has lost one of the best MCs and Hip-Hop icons of all-time — my loyal best friend, partner, and brother, Guru,” Solar said in a statement. “Guru has been battling cancer for well over a year and has lost his battle! This is a matter that Guru wanted private until he could beat it, but tragically, this did not happen. The cancer took him. Now the world has lost a great man and a true...
Benjamin L. Hooks, who as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for 16 years championed minorities in an increasingly conservative political era, died Thursday at his home in Memphis. He was 85.Enlarge This ImageChip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBenjamin L. Hooks in 2007, when he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.James A. Finley/Associated PressBenjamin L. Hooks at a news conference in...
CHICAGO, Ill. – Relatives said a Madison man “snapped out” as he shot and killed his pregnant wife, their baby son, and 2 nieces in Chicago early Wednesday. 32-year-old James Larry was being questioned by police at last word. Relatives told the Wisconsin State Journal that Larry and members of his family were returning a nephew to Chicago after spring break when he got to his sister’s house and began shooting.Other media reports said Larry heard...
T.I. is back in the headlines today and making a groundbreaking announcement to fans eager to pick up The King's new project.As previously reported Tip released the trailer to his “F*ck A Mixtape” mixtape courtesy of DJ Drama and his Gangsta Grillz series and now he's announcing the name of his next studio album as King Uncaged with a scheduled August 24th release date.No word yet on who's featured on the project but we'll keep you updated.I guess...
Check out the new video for Maxwell’s “Fistful of Tears”. The video was shot by director Phil Andelman, who also directed the video for “Pretty Wings.”In related news, Maxwell will perform on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” on April 20th and NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno on April 22nd. His tour with Jill Scott starts in May and Erykah Badu is set to open up for him on June 2...
Officer Mark Lindback started his day off with a routine contraband check of a jail cell. He pulled up the inmate's mattress, and ducked his head under the bed. He didn't find any shanks or drugs, but he did find papers -- lots and lots of papers.The inmate immediately became irate."He was very insistent on getting back his paperwork," Lindback said. "It made me look more thoroughly to see what it was."Lindback says he found tax forms, papers with...
In Death at a Funeral, a memorial service for a family patriarch goes terribly awry, beginning with the delivery of the wrong stiff and ending with the ravings of a naked guy on a roof. This may sound awfully familiar, especially to anyone who saw Death at a Funeral three years ago. But that was then, when the comedy was a tumbling (and strained) British farce set in a proper English country house and populated by proper British people coming undone....
