by: John “Hennry” Harris Morehouse trustee Strive Masiyiwa, and his wife Tsitsi Masiyiwa, run the Capernaum Trust which pays the school fees of over 40,000 students, orphaned and vulnerable, whom Tsitsi calls “History Makers”. More than 3,000 of the “History Makers” are University students studying in the United States, South Africa and Australia. The Masiyiwa’s actions are noble, but the path Strive and Tsitsi had to endure to get to that point is nothing short of miraculous….
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October 10, 2013
Ceelo Green will once again be facing the jury and the judge for a possible date rαpe case against him. However, most legal experts and critics have big doubts that the case will move forward – citing the incapability of the police to deliver enough evidence to prosecute Green. It was barely a year ago when Green was first accused of rαpe – he was accused of putting drugs on…
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is going to prison for a very long time. He received 28 years in prison for over a dozen charges. The charges include racketeering, extortion and filing false tax returns. He apologized to the court afterward. “I say with every morsel of my being that I’m sorry to you,” he said. Judge Nancy G. Edmunds seemed determined to make the former mayor into…
According to RadarOnline.com, 83 year-old Katherine Jackson is being pressured by her two “greedy” sons Jermaine and Randy Jackson to appeal the decision the jury made in Michael Jackson’s billion dollar wrongful death case. The jurors decided Michael’s doctor, Conrad Murray, was fully competent when he was hired by Jackson and there’s no reason for AEG to know that he would give Jackson surgery style anesthesiology. The trial dragged on…
by Barry Burch Jr. How does one know when they have the Principal of all principals; perhaps when that principal is put to the test. One principal in Southeast Atlanta, Jason Stamper, was put to the test and there is no denying that he passed with flying colors. Stamper, who is the principal of technology at the New Schools at Carver, saved a student from a dog attack. He told…
Yesterday, on October 8th, Lauryn Hill posted what she called a “Letter of Recognition” to her Tumblr page. The Letter was uploaded less than a week after she was released from prison. Hill was imprisoned for about three months for not filing her taxes from the years 2005-2007. The singer served time at a prison located in Danbury, Connecticut. Her jail time started on July 8th. The letter began with…
by Dr. Boyce Watkins We know about the power of hip-hop, which is my favorite genre of music. Hip-hop can either produce an entire generation of soldiers ready for liberation, or it can produce a pack of misguided buffoons who are looking for a white man to tell them what to do. The hip-hop music on urban radio stations around the country have become nothing less than weaponized brainwashing, and…