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Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York came out in full force Friday morning to say final farewells to D’aja “Asia” Robinson, 14, the young girl killed when someone fired 9 rounds into the Q6 city bus she was riding home after a friend’s Sweet Sixteen birthday party, Saturday, May 18th, reports NY Daily News. As previously…
The Nth Power, a soul/R&B/jazz super-group led by former Beyoncé drummer extraordinaire Nikki Glaspie release their new single. Check out Nikki’s debut lead vocals on the feature track “I See Love”. The track was produced by The Nth Power: Nikki Glaspie, Nigel Hall, Nate Edgar and…
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This weekend, beginning Saturday May 25 through Memorial Day, May 27, DanceAfrica will showcase the cultural vitality of Africa and its diaspora through dance, art, film and an outdoor bazaar. Created in 1977, DanceAfrica is BAM’s longest-running cultural program and one of America’s largest and…
A Manhattan judge ordered CBS producers to turn over emails related to the production of a reality television show featuring Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes by 11:00 a.m. today. And based upon the content of those emails, the judge will decide whether to stop the…
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Prince has released a video for his new single “Fixurlifeup,” watch below. The visual features images of the politically charged lyrics floating over footage of Prince performing the song with the female trio 3rd Eye Girl, in fact the video is credited to 3rd Eye…
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Russell Simmons co-founded Def Jam and music history, then teamed up with HBO to make TV history by producing Def Poetry Jam, Brave New Voices and the legendary Def Comedy Jam. Now according to The Hollywood Reporter, Simmons is gearing up to join forces with…
Jennifer Hudson has been in negotiations to become a judge on the next season of American Idol and now there are reports that she has agreed to terms. According to E! Online, multiple sources have confirmed that Jennifer has signed a deal to judge the…
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Tyler Perry says he tried to save Whitney Houston’s life but failed in his attempt to take her to a rehab center to cure her drug addiction. He made the revelation in an interview with Oprah Winfrey for Oprah’s Next Chapter episode debuting Sunday on…
Police are asking the public’s assistance in locating the whereabouts of the person responsible for shooting a 23-year-old man early Thursday morning on Hancock St. According to police, on Thursday, May 23, at approximately 2:24 a.m., police received a 911 call of shots fired in…
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In what has quickly become a tradition in its own right, the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT welcomes AMERICAN IDOL‘s newly crowned winner, Candice Glover, when she graces the stage at the U.S. Capitol this Memorial Day weekend to perform…
Funk icon George Clinton says he will use his upcoming reality TV show to highlight his various legal battles over the copyright to his songs. The Parliament/Funkadelic legend is caught up in a myriad of current lawsuits over the use of his back catalog. In…
At 48-years-old, Bernard Hopkins is the oldest fighter to win a world championship in the history of boxing, and in June, he will be recognized for that accomplishment and more when he accepts the 2013 John Wanamaker Athletic Award. B-Hop is scheduled to be honored…
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) — Writer Chinua Achebe is being remembered in Nigeria as a fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure. Mourners gathered in his hometown for a funeral Thursday in Ogidi, a small town in Nigeria’s east. Among attendees was Nigerian President Goodluck…
Anthony Weiner made no public appearances after announcing his run for mayor yesterday, but he’s all over the city today. The former Congressman greeted commuters this morning at 125th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem. He stressed his desire to get out and have…
Gabrielle Molina, a 12-year-old Queens girl hanged herself in her family home yesterday after being relentlessly cyberbullied by her middle-school classmates, sources told The Post. Gabrielle Molina was found hanging by a belt from a ceiling fan at about 2:15 p.m. on 220th Street in…
LONDON — A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London. Ingrid Loyau-Kennett got off a bus and tried to reason with the…
Dozens of people in Brooklyn say Mayor Bloomberg broke a promise made almost a decade ago to build affordable housing, and as a result, some say that thousands have been forced to move out of the Greenpoint and Williamsburg areas, reports NY1. About 50 people…
Three men have been arrested for allegedly abducting a Woodside resident and holding him ransom in a Long Island City warehouse, the Queens District Attorney’s office said Wednesday. Christian Acuna, 35, of Corona, Dennis Alves, 32, of East Elmhurst and Eduardo Moncayo, 38, of Lyndhurst,…
Sources say a man has been arrested for firing a shot on Saturday outside the club where a 14-year-old Queens girl was attending a party, just hours before she was shot while riding a bus, reports NY1. Police are trying to determine if the unidentified…
(Reuters) – An FBI agent shot and killed a man of Chechen origin who turned violent while being questioned on Wednesday about his connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings. A friend of the dead…
(MOORE, Okla.) — Dena Clark wasn’t supposed to be at the Tinker Federal Credit Union in Moore, Okla., when the tornado hit Monday. Her worried mother knew a storm was coming and was on the phone with Clark telling her to go home. But living…
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