Demeka "Nicety"'s Blog – October 2014 Archive (182)

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?

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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

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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…

After playing a game of “hide the sausage” with a stripper, Drake is attempting to make believe it never happened. Allegedly.

The dancer, whose stage name is Jhonni Blaze, informed Houston police detectives that she was intimated by Drizzy’s crew. She claims they arrived at her front door and…

Sounds like the tension between Mama Joyce and Mama Sharon finally boiled over this weekend on the set of Real Housewives of Atlanta.

According to gossip site MediaTakeout, Kandi Burress's mother Joyce and her husband Todd Tucker's mother Sharon came to blows apparently over Joyce's recent claim that…

In an interview with Oprah, the childhood star who has grown into a young lady speaks about her personal life. Oprah reads a tweet from Raven-Symonés account in which she seems to celebrate the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Oprah asks her flat out if she, Raven-Symoné, was referring to gay marriage her ability to wed…

We've all heard about the numerous problems that came with the release of the iPhone 6.

We've seen its vast flexibility with the lightweight aluminum casing, numerous iOS 8 bugs and problems with the HealthKit app.

All issues that might've made you want to pull…

Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning stage director, artist and actor, died at a New York City hospital Sunday from complications of pneumonia. He was 84.

Holder won a pair of Tony Awards for stage direction and costume design for the 1975 musical "The Wiz," and is well-known for his roles in the film…

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Saturday morning American broadcast TV was once animation's home field. Filling a cereal bowl with artificially colored sugar pebbles and staring at the tube was every kid's weekend plan. Not any more: For the first time in 50-plus years, you didn't find a block of animation on broadcast Saturday morning. It's the end of an…

The head of the FBI said in an interview broadcast late Sunday that the U.S. is preparing for an imminent terrorist attack.

FBI Director James Comey said the Khorasan Group, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, may still be working on a plan to hit the United States.…

Filmmaker Brian Fender aims to explore the subject of the male organ, as well as others in regard to male sexuality, in "D*ck: The Documentary." For the film, Fender interviewed 63 men, between the ages of 22-82, who stripped nude and revealed themselves…

When former Titans kicker Rob Bironas lost control of his SUV in a single-car accident that eventually took his life, his blood-alcohol content was .218, more than 2.5 times the legal limit, a toxicology report obtained by the Tennessean revealed.

On Friday, Bironas' father, Larry, said that he didn't…