Monthly Archives: February 2012

YouPorn has been dethroned as the king of porn online. When we first looked at 008, YouPorn was emerging as a leader with very little competition, and it continued to reign through the following year. Now, at 25.7 million unique monthly visitors, PornHub is the new, unrivaled YouTube of porn. The site was surging by [...]

Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com   West Philly emcee Chill Moody opens for Kid Cudi @ Temple University at 9pm then shoots across town to the TLA to perform at Sneaker Pimps with headliner Kendrick Lamar at 9:30pm. Check out the behind the scenes of the entire day. Footage captured by @ReddPenMedia Follow @ChillMoody [...]

Cable News Network (CNN) and National Public Radio (NPR) have acknowledged that eight members of the US Army 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group served as interns in their news divisions and other areas during the Kosovo war. PSYOPS is a highly specialized unit of the military whose personnel are trained in the production and dissemination [...]

Mumia Abu Jamal: Lydia Barashango – Presente! Lydia Barashango, 64, a nurse and social worker who was the sister of Mumia Abu-Jamal, died Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Maryland of breast cancer. Friends said she had been living in Baltimore. Mrs. Barashango was a strong defender of her brother, the Philadelphia radio reporter and Black Panther [...]

On October 4th, the Zune HD mysteriously disappeared from Microsoft’s Zune website, prompting rabid speculation that the hardware was no more. Later, the multimedia player was restored to its place of former glory. Now, however, the official Zune support page suggests that the original tidings were true: the Zune HD’s dead as a doornail. Just [...]

While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she’ll be the one to take away his virginity. Director: Miguel Arteta Writers: Gustin Nash (screenplay), C.D. Payne (novel) Stars: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday and Ray Liotta [...]

The Roots – Make My Feat Big K.R.I.T Ahmir tells it best: “At this point in our career we’d like for our work to have a unifying theme, and an experiential quality,” says Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, 40. “We’ve been intentionally making our albums shorter in length so that they can be experienced as a continuous [...]

Child ID, the first app from the FBI, is a bit late to the party. Using the app, parents can store key information about their children, including height, weight, and even photographs- that can be shown to authorities in the event that their kids go missing. The app also offers advice on what to do in the [...]

Rashad Morgan – Where I Left Off (Mixtape) [...]

Fourth Annual W.E.B Du Bois Lectures with Dr. Anthony Monteiro W.E.B Du Bois and the Crisis of Capitalism: What Must be Done   This is the fourth annual W.E.B Du Bois Lectures which occur at a time of severe economic crisis, high unemployment and suffering.  The focus of the lectures will be on how Du Bois and the [...]

CLICK TO ENLARGE A middle-income family with a child born in 2010 can expect to spend about $226,920 to raise the child to age 18, according to a Department of Agriculture report. The cost grew 2 percent from last year, with the greatest share of the increase coming from transportation, child care, education, and health [...]

Several months ago I reported on the firing of a trio of high-ranking prison officials in connection with a series of sexual assaults in a Southwestern Pennsylvania prison. Few news agencies took up the story especially national ones. This was astounding given the nature of the charges: prison guards both raping men and forcing others [...]