The Drug Enforcement Administration probe that has ensnared a well-known rap music manager is focusing on the shipment of kilos of cocaine from Los Angeles to New York by a narcotics ring that stashed the drug in “road cases” delivered to recording studios, The Smoking Gun has learned. Pa... Read more...
The percentage of new teachers in New York City public schools who are black has fallen substantially since 2002, dropping to 13% in the last school year from 27% in 2001-02, city figures show. The change has dramatically altered the racial makeup of the new teacher workforce, which last year inclu... Read more...
After each received an offer of early acceptance to Yale last fall, the Crouch quadruplets of Danbury, Conn., went on to collect letters of admission this spring from more than a dozen other colleges. Their suitors included Harvard and Johns Hopkins (Kenny); Duke (Raymond); Tufts (Kenny and ... Read more...
Records of an FBI probe into the unsolved case of Biggie's murder appear in The Vault including information about the the way the New York emcee was killed in Los Angeles. It seems he was shot with a German-made Gecko 9mm gun, one that is not commonly found in the United States. The FBI investigat... Read more...
Lupe Fiasco, jazz pianist Robert Glasper and his Robert Glasper Experiment played a show at famed New York jazz club the Blue Note. Ironically, Mos Def & Kanye showed up (which minus Pharell would have been CRS) and freestyled with the liv eband behind them. Kanye, of course, took the jacket... Read more...
Most people are highly offended by this, I'm not. allow me to explain why before you erase my site from your bookmarks and call me all types of uncle toms and hypocrites. I am offended, but only slightly. I'm offended as a parent because they used a child in this billboard instead of an adult. W... Read more...
Jupiter Hammon was a Black poet who became the first African-American published writer in America when a poem appeared in print in 1760. Hammon was a devout Christian, and is considered one of the founders of African American literature. On September 24, 1786, He expressed his views on slavery whe... Read more...
Some parents are friends with their children on Facebook so they can keep an eye on things. Those that aren’t, however, should hack, steal, or do whatever it takes to get their kids’ Facebook passwords, and they should not feel guilty about it, according to a New Jersey cop. Mahwah Po... Read more...
UPDATE: L-Boogie announces more dates across the east coast. After headlining Rock The Bells this summer, singer/emcee Lauryn Hill will return to New York City on December 27 for a performance at the Highline Ballroom. The former Fugees star and Grammy Award-winning soloist has resurfaced t... Read more...