September 2014 Blog Posts (134)

The artist formerly known as Musiq Soulchild is now an Atlanta-based rapsinger who refers to his former self in the third person.

I know. I’m annoyed already, too.

Mr. 143 is no more (for now?). The artist formerly known as Taalib Johnson and Musiq

Soulchild is now to be known as….

…wait for it…

The Husel. As in, “The…

Despite five years of economic recovery, poverty is still stubbornly high in America.

More than 45 million people, or 14.5 percent of all Americans, lived below the poverty line last year, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday. The percentage of…

Video of the moments after black teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, indicates that a witness on the scene said the unarmed 18-year-old's hands were raised when he was killed.

The cell phone footage, released…

Shot-Gunning with your Boys...Is this what's up in the streets?

It went down last night at AGENDA!  The $1000 Swimsuit Contest...Yeah Mannnn!

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A Seattle woman has been brought up on charges for raping her neighbor as he slept after a party.

She apparently broke into the 31-year-old's apartment on June 16, 2013 after a birthday party.…

Tywonn Mitchell, 20, and his brother Naybon Moore, 26, are two college students with bright futures ahead of them. Mitchell is in college studying criminal justice and his brother is in his last year of study at law school, but what happened to them one night last month will forever stay with the brothers.…

Boxer Floyd Mayweather earned $32 million for defeating Marcos Maidana in Vegas on Saturday night and apparently couldn't spare a few bucks to tip a waitress at his victory party.

According to TMZ, Mayweather took 150 of his closest pals to the Hard Rock Hotel…

That 20-cent tip Eagles running back LeSean McCoy left at a Philadelphia restaurant last week could be worth thousands of dollars.

The receipt showing the minuscule tip has been put up for sale on eBay --…

Singer August Alsina collapsed and fell off the stage during his concert last night (Monday) in New York and his condition is currently unknown.

Witnesses say Alsina, who was named BET's Best New Artist, appeared to be out…

Robin Thicke says he was high during every interview he gave last year and claims addiction is the real reason Paula Patton left him. Those revelations — any many more — are contained in transcripts from the lawsuit by Marvin Gaye’s estate against Thicke and Pharrell Williams over whether “Blurred Lines” ripped off Gaye’s “Got to…

In response to the widely publicized videos displaying an altercation between a young adult couple, I have delayed the release of my planned blog to address domestic violence.  The elevator scene was noteworthy as another representation of the degree to which violence has become an…

Angelea Preston says the producers were told before she taped the finale of the All-Star season in 2011. According to a lawsuit she's filing ... Preston told producers, confidentially, prior to filming the season she had been an escort for about a year and that spread like wildfire to the rest of the cast and…

Lindsay Lohan claims that she handled Whitney Houston’s body bag while performing her community service.

Lindsay was working at the L.A. County Morgue in her probation violation case a few years back when she came in contact with Whitney's body ... so she tells the Telegraph to promote her upcoming…

An actress from "Django Unchained" claims she was the victim of classic racism and police brutality ... just because she was showing affection to a white man.

Daniele Watts and her boyfriend Brian were making out in a parked car Thursday outside the CBS studios in the San Fernando Valley.…

The Vikings have initially taken an “all options on the table” approach to the future of running back Adrian Peterson, but one report says the scope is narrower than that.

According to Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post, the “only certainty is Peterson won’t be released” as a result of his indictment on…

This writer clearly did not like the film at all:

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In No Good Deed,…

There's more trouble in the NFL. Following late week's drama surrounding a video showing now-former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out his then-fiancée in an elevator, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was indicted Saturday on charges of child abuse.…

If you're planning on attending a Kanye West show, you'd…

John Crawford III, a 22-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police inside an Ohio Walmart after another shopper reported Crawford was "walking around with a gun in the store." The alleged gun, which the witness described in a 911 call as a black rifle, and later said he thought was an AR-15, turned out to be a BB…