Sterling Allen Brown Sterling Allen Brown was a professor, author of works on folklore, poet and literary critic. Some of his works are Southern Road, Harcourt, Brace and company, and Negro Poetry. In the early 1980s his Collected Poems won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the bes... Read more...
Apple Computers - The Apple Boogie (Mixtape) Here we have the nearly-forgotten cassette of music that Apple put out in the late 980s.The Next Web tracked it down and you can download all the tracks and lyrics to the songs right here. "The Apple Boogie" is a collection of 8 tracks that are ... Read more...
Killin’ Them Softly is easily one of HBO’s best comedy specials, catching star Dave Chappelle at a career high in 2000 and with an abundance of hysterical, highly polished material. Taking his time, stretching concepts and bits like a master, Chappelle plunges into a wealth of anecdotes and ... Read more...
Christopher Roney (born December 15, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Cool C, is an American rapper whose musical career peaked in the late 1980s. He is perhaps best known today for the notoriety surrounding his involvement in the murder of a Philadelphia Police office... Read more...
Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time since the program will be in the red since it was overhauled in 1983, according to the annual authoritative report released Thursday by the program's actuary. Meanwhile President Obama's health care ... Read more...
John Gotti’s 24-year-old grandson Carmine tells the NY Daily News that Rick Ross should’ve gotten consent from the late mobster’s family to name his latest album, Teflon Don. Gotti was dubbed with the alias back in the 80s after winning numerous acquittals. Carmine says: “He shoul... Read more...
Market forecaster Robert Prechter says we're on the verge of the biggest market crash since the 1720 collapse of Britain's South Sea Bubble, with the Dow nosediving to below 1,000 in the next five to six years, from around 10,000 now. Prechter, regarded as a powerful market "guru" in the late 1980... Read more...
"How do you write to a family that your own father hurt so much?" Sebastian Marroquin, son of the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, posed this question in a letter to the families of two of his father's most prominent victims. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was Colombia's justice minister in the... Read more...