Demeka "Nicety"'s Blog – April 2018 Archive (34)

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that aims to add and strengthen work requirements for public assistance and other welfare programs.

The order, signed in private, promotes "common-sense reforms"…

After bringing the internet to a collective stop over his *alleged* embezzlement scandal, Howard University alumnus Tyrone Hankerson is reportedly planning to sue the school that he is accused of stealing over $400,000 from.

According to…

Suge Knight was taken out of jail and rushed to a hospital, TMZ is reporting. Apparently, he's been there for two days.

"Suge was moved from L.A. County jail on Tuesday, around 11 AM, and was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital," the outlet…

Did you ever tell yourself: “I wish there was a corporate website that could hypnotize me and erase part of memory”? If so, what is wrong with you? Also, you’re in luck.

Samsung’s Swedish site includes a bizarre feature called Unspoil Me – a 23-minute hypnosis session comprised…

A man who threw a banana peel at Dave Chappelle during a 2015 performance in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is suing the comedian and a man presumed to be his bodyguard.

Christian Englander’s lawsuit filed Friday contends the presumed bodyguard struck Englander twice as he was being…

When is using a condom a bad idea? When you are trying to snort it up your nose and pull it out through your mouth. If you ask, "why would anyone ever do that," then you obviously haven't heard of the "Condom Snorting Challenge."

This is…

On April 4, 2018, all eyes will turn to Memphis, Tennessee to remember the tragic event that occurred 50 years prior.  Our nation’s greatest peacemaker was snatched from us by a sniper’s bullet.  It occurred at the Lorraine Motel, 450 Mulberry Street in Memphis, Tennessee, now, the location of the National Civil Rights Museum. …

Yesterday, the Nashville Metro Council took final action to rename a portion of one of its major downtown street's after the icon civic rights leader.

The council voted unanimously on a final of three…

The brother of Nasim Najafi Aghdam worried she might do something dangerous.

The concerns started over the weekend when Aghdam stopped answering her phone, her brother told CNN affiliate KGTV. Then the San Diego resident's car was found more than 700 miles northwest, in Mountain View,…

The designer of Schlitterbahn's "Verruckt" water slide was taken into custody at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Monday night.

The water park company's co-owner Jeffrey Henry is accused of rushing the world's tallest waterslide…

We’re getting mixed messages from Birdman and Lil Wayne. On one hand, sources say they’re still in a bitter feud over royalties, back pay and Tha Carter 5. On the other hand, they’ve hung out three times in the past week.

The most recent occasion…

Those of us who study black history have always heard rumors of an alleged relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. (then known as “ML”) and a white woman in his younger days.

Well, a historian has found this woman and published a book…

A week after a mysterious car crash killed at least six members of a Washington family, police say they have “reason to believe” the plunge off a California cliff was “intentional.”

Washington married couple Jennifer and Sarah…

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist and former wife of the late President Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 81.

The family said in a statement that she passed away at the Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa after a long illness,…