from Dahryl Pharoah

Popular Black adult entertainer Alicia Tyler was found dead Sunday in a Los Angeles home.

Real name, Danielle Porter, she was at her mother’s California home at the time. Many in her industry are mourning her passing as she made a big impact on the scene prior 2009. Many were looking forward to her return this year after…

Less than a decade ago, Adam Wiles was working the aisles of a Scottish grocery chain. Living out of his parents’ house without a college degree, he had all but given up on his dreams of making it as a musician, consigning himself to stock food items on store shelves for the rest of his life.

Looking back on that bleak outlook today,…

Over the past 20 years, Tim Westwood has been one the most influential figures in bringing American hip-hop to the UK public. In a surprising change to BBC Radio’s schedule, the 55-year old DJ will no longer be a part of Radio 1 and 1Xtra from now onwards, with his slot being filled by the familiar name of Charlie Sloth. Tim has been known to have interviews…

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Here's the real reason your pages were stuck together.

Tyree S. Carter, 20, was allegedly caught openly masturbating in the Racine Public Library in Racine, Wisc. Wednesday morning.

The employee who spotted Carter says he was "standing in the…

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — 46-year-old Ronnie Johnson, facing 14 counts relating to sexual assaults of children, made his initial appearance in court on Wednesday, July 30th.

A judge set a $100,000 cash bond, and Johnson was told that if he pays the bond, he must surrender his passport.

Johnson faces the following charges (including 14 total counts):

second degree…

Black sexuality is a confounding matter for white people. They hesitate to even discuss in any public forum but the entire matter is not that complicated, although much research still needs to be done on how to cure white people of this malady. When white men enslaved Africans (and Jews profited) they basically dehumanized him by…

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By Jineea Butler

NNPA Columnist

The rags to riches stories that have defined the Hip Hop movement as a viable path to the American Dream may be the All-American distraction.  Early Hip Hop artists experienced true bliss when their hard work and efforts paid off…

A good Indian Remy or Malaysian weave can set you back a few stacks, and Foxy Brown is definitely not here for it.

According to a Brooklyn hairstylist, she recently hooked Foxy up with a custom weave, but to her surprise, after she was done, Foxy said she loved her new hair and bounced up out of the shop without paying.

On…

You can look at AIDS and HIV statistics as numbers in a table, but that doesn't quite tell the story of how …

NBA legend Charles Barkley on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” Thursday said he “agrees” with the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial because there there wasn’t “enough evidence to charge him.” He also took a shot at the media for giving both black and white racists a “platform to vent their ignorance” in the aftermath of the trial.

Barkley…

If you’re in Chicago, near the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W Washington, you could stop by and see Siohvaughn Funches — Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife — on the street with a sign berating her ex. Or as Black Sports Online calls it, “Having a nervous breakdown.”

Obviously she feels under appreciated, even though a court awarded her a $1…

By Brian Abrams

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/

I’ll admit it: I’m pathetically extreme for the 1990s. So, when news hit in April that Wesley Snipes, who has been in prison since December 2010 for tax evasion, had been transferred from a federal penitentiary to an undisclosed…

DETROIT — Detroit, the cradle of America’s automobile industry and once the nation’s fourth-most-populous city, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, the largest American city ever to take such a course.

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The decision, confirmed by officials after it trickled out in late afternoon news reports, also amounts to the largest…

By JESSICA JERREAT

A mother of three, who…

Do not ever let no one tell you cannot do something just because where your from.

Tony Neal CEO of Core DJs the biggest stalwart DJ network in the world and radio DJ use this type of comprehension to make it.

He started off on a radio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 1994. Before that he was an amateur DJ, but did not get into it too seriously until around the age of 23.Tony Neal started Core DJ's in November 2004, his desired to emanate an union for DJs to amalgamate worldwide.…

by MLH

The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous. Most, if not all of the negative responses from people of color toward white people, are reactions to the hatred, violence, cruelty and brutality that they were shown by white people for centuries. Much of the foundation of…

As Diddy continues the expansion of his Bad Boy empire, he made “one of the biggest announcements” of his life Thursday morning. Last year the music mogul announced plans to launch his own TV network, Revolt TV and it was confirmed that he struck a deal with Time Warner Cable for distribution.

The move reportedly sets up Revolt TV to…

(BlackMediaScoop) Popular 90s pop group TLC recently re-recorded their biggest hit Waterfall. And much to the dismay of Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes’ family, the new version has excluded the late singer from the track.

Instead of keeping Left Eye, who died in 2002, T-Boz and Chili replaced her voice with Namie Amuro, a Japanese pop star…

from Billboard

Emerging rapper Lil Snupe, a recent signee to Meek Mill's Dream Chaser's label, was shot and killed early Thursday morning (June 20) in Winnfield, La.

Police confirmed the 18-year-old artist's death with local NBC affiliate KALB, which…