by Kellan Connor Article Reprint LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Rapper Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dogg) says he wants to help educate children on smoking weed. Snoop, who coaches eight and nine year olds
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Former LAUSD Teacher Accused of Molesting 20 Children
by KTLA 5 Web Staff Article Reprint WILMINGTON, Calif. (KTLA) — A former elementary school teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District has been arrested in a sexual abuse case involving at least 20
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Homicide is just one of many killers plaguing Chicago’s poor black neighborhoods By Steve Bogira Article Reprint Chicago’s homicide rate has drawn headlines this year, locally and nationally, and not without reason. Through July,
Read moreKara Walker’s Controversial Drawing of Slave Having Sex Returns to Newark Public Library
Associated Press Article Reprint NEWARK, N.J. — A library that covered up a drawing of a black female slave having sex with a white man after workers found it inappropriate is displaying it again. The
Read moreWes Welker Wife Apologizes for Ray Lewis Facebook Rant
By Ryan Wilson Article Reprint In the AFC Championship Game loss to the Ravens, Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker had eight catches for 117 yards and a touchdown. Looking solely at the box score,
Read moreLebron Better than Jordan? Let’s not get Carried Away
By Ken Berger Article Reprint The visceral disdain for LeBron James — some of it admittedly expressed by this writer — was over the top and too much. It was too bitter, too angry, too
Read moreBlack Folks aint Got No Money for Bootstraps: The Black Capitalist Dead End
The African American economic condition deteriorates by the year, but that doesn’t stop the ‘bootstrappers’ from talking trash. “The bootstraps mythology -sometimes under the shorthand, ‘Do for Self’ – implicitly or explicitly urges Black people
Read moreJordan: Dream Team would have no problem vs. London Gold Medalist
By: Sam Amick Article Reprint Beyond Michael Jordan’s exploits as the best player of all time, there has always been this title too: master of marketing. In the sports business world that Jordan played a
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