October 2014 Blog Posts (198)

Eightball (Premro Smith) - 41 years old

He used to rap in the Memphis duo Eightball & MJG but now he works solo.

Steve McQueen - 45 years old

The British director. He won a Best…

Health officials in Spain have euthanized the pet dog belonging to a medical worker who is infected with the Ebola virus. 

The mixed-breed dog, named Excalibur, was put down today despite a huge public outcry and a plea by his owner Teresa Romero Ramos. Officials got a police escort into the…

The nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next April have been announced and it is arguably the weakest list ever put up for a vote. The nominees are:

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band***…

Angry protesters filled the streets of a St. Louis neighborhood last night after a white off-duty police officer shot and killed a black teen.

The shooting occurred just 11 miles from Ferguson, Missouri, the site of the Michael Brown shooting. Police say the officer, who was off-duty but in uniform and…

We Let You Do Ya Birthday Dance - What The Hell....Twerk It...It's Ya Birthday :-)

You didn't know a 30+ Year Old Woman Could Still Do It Like That!…

A sick man who had recently been in the West African nation of Liberia was taken from LAX to Centinela Hospital Medical Center via ambulance last night to be tested for Ebola as a precaution, hospital officials said. The results were still pending, according to a statement from Centinela.



The facility…

A man shot and killed a woman and wounded five others after his advances on her were rejected.

According to police, 27-year-old Mary "Unique" Spears, a mother of three, had gone to the American Legion Joe Louis Post No. 375 in Detroit with some friends and relatives following the funeral of another…

Thomas Eric Duncan, the patient who was being treated for Ebola in an isolation unit at a Texas hospital, has died, officials said today.

"It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 a.m.," the hospital said in…

Celebrity Birthdays

Bruno Mars (Peter Hernandez Junior) - 28 years old…

As expected, Keyshia Cole has debuted the video for "Believer" to coincide with the release of sixth album Point of No Return.

In the clip, posted on YouTube, a bikini-clad Keyshia charters a yacht with her girlfriends and her love interest, who resembles her estranged husband Daniel Gibson. At…

SAT Scores Stagnant, Some Minorities Falling Further Behind (Only 1 in 6 ready for College?)

High school students are neither moving forwards nor backwards when it comes to Scholastic Aptitude Test scores.

The latest report released Tuesday by the College Board found that…

All good things must come to an end.

Yesterday (Monday) BET announced that their popular dramedy, The Game, will be taken off the air after season nine. “Shows do end,” the show’s executive producer Mara Brock Akil told BET. “That is a part the business. We made history when we got to the network and it’s nice…

In the world of reality television, NeNe Leakes is moving on up!

She was already the highest paid housewife on Bravo but now RadarOnline reports the Real Housewives of Atlanta star will be earning $1.5 million for the upcoming season, making her the highest paid reality star on the entire…

Queen B, Beyonce', finally releases the Flawless remix video. The video is taken from her Paris show where Nicki Minaj made an appearance. Watch the video below and let me know what you think of it?

ADULT LANGUAGE WARNING…

Blues guitarist B.B. King has canceled the remaining eight performances of his current tour after being diagnosed with dehydration and exhaustion.

King's official website says he fell ill Friday evening during a performance at the House of Blues in Chicago and was evaluated by a…

A group of white St. Louis Cardinals fans clashed Monday night with a group of black protesters seeking “justice for Mike Brown,” the unarmed teenager gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer.

A video posted online by Argus Streaming News…

When it comes the rap game -- there's nothing stopping Drake. 

The Canadian rapper made history this week by topping The Beatles for the most Billboard Hot 100 singles. Drake's most recent feature on iLoveMakonnen’s track "Tuesday" gives Drizzy his 72nd entry…

Bobby Shmurda has been arrested yet again, this time for smoking pot. The 20-year-old rapper was caught smoking a joint with two friends inside a double-parked car in Brooklyn. He was taken away to jail for the night. Shmurda was previously arrested back in June for possessing a handgun.…

Toni Braxton - 46 years old

Simon Cowell - 55 years old

X Factor/ex-American Idol judge, record executive and author

Vladimir Putin…

Lil' Kim has been trying to ease her way back into the limelight, but now it's going to be on her for all the wrong reasons.

Over the weekend, the Queen Bee stood up some of her biggest fans -- a group of about 100 LGBT folks who'd paid a pretty penny to meet her at a Florida nightclub. According to…