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Scott Storch Arrested For Cocaine Possession In Las Vegas (Video)
February 16, 2012
As a fellow Philadelphia native it hurts me to see producer & arranger Scott Storch go through his struggles with drug addiction. Considering I remember meeting him during his early days with The Roots. According to TMZ, Scott was picked up in Las Vegas last month after failing to pay for his hotel room before getting knocked for cocaine possession. Hopefully Scott can live up to his “Tuff Jew” moniker & eventually kick the habit or get it under control somehow.
BLITZ – 2/16/12: See No Evil….
February 16, 2012
HEADLINES
The Simpsons’ Reach 500 Episodes
Atlanta Rapper ‘Strap’ Arrested For Having Gun At The Airport
Harry Belafonte Gets Fired Up Over Obama While Speaking In Chicago
Hoarder Found Dead In Trash Pile
Black Beauties Of The 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition
“Linsanity” Has Asian American Parents Nervous Kids Would Ditch Books For Basketball
FCC Poised To Kill Proposed Wireless U.S. Network Plan
Writers Explore What It Means To Be ‘Black Cool’
Vanessa Bryant Seen Sucking Face With Kobe
Electronic Cigarette Explodes In Man’s Mouth
No More Kingsize: Mars To Slim Down Candy Bars In 2013
Manny Pacquaio Considers Retirement Due To Religious Beliefs
Private Prisons Offer To Buy State Prisons Only If They Are Kept 90% Full
Why Do Mormons Baptize Dead People?
The Real Problem With Roland Martin’s Tweets
17 Arrested In Drug Bust At Texas Christian University
Man Arrested For Sending Valentine’s Day Flowers
Student Loan Crisis Busts Retirement Savings
Mark Cuban Says The Chris Paul Trade Was ‘Ridiculous’
Chris Brown Goes On A Twitter Rant…..Again
Man Suffers Cardiac Arrest…While Eating At The Heart Attack Grille
BLITZ – 2/15/12: Would You Like A Box Of Chocolates?
February 15, 2012
HEADLINES
After Whitney Houston, Musicians Are Afraid Of Early Death
Jeremy Lin Hits Game Winning 3 Pointer To Lead The Knicks Over The Raptors 90-87
Movin’ On Up Like The Jeffersons: Jeremy Lin Goes From His Bro’s Couch To New Apartment
GOP Says It’s Okay To Beat Your Wife
Kid Ordered To Eat School Lunch By Inspector
Nicki Minaj Responds To Pissed Off Catholics
Antibiotics May Be Useless For A Sinus Infection
Drake And Common Get Into Fight Backstage At Grammys
Russia Argues Over How To Set Their World Clock
To Celebrate Valentine’s Day, The 99 Percent Break Up With Bank of America
TSA Forces Woman Through Naked Body Scanner Three Times
Man Arrested For Trying To Pay Stripper With Crack
Bobby Brown Not Welcomed At Whitney Houston’s Funeral
Indianapolis Colts Owner Jim Irsay Says The Future Is Up To Peyton Manning
The Most Outspoken Black Athletes Of All Time
White Grandfather Harassed By Police For Walking With Black Granddaughter
Europe Sees Historic Fifteen Feet Of Snow
Glee Predicts Majority Of Americans Will Speak Spanish By 2030? Politifact Does Fact Checking
Cincinnati High School Pays Students To Attend Class
3 Men Gets Life In Prison For Robbing A Prostitute Of $210 & A Cellphone
California Rapper ‘Philthy Rich’ Arrested Over Stolen Bentley
The Next iPad Version Could Be 4G
Just How Did Allen Iverson Blow Through 154 Million?
High School Football Coach Resigns After Posting Naked Picture On Facebook
Slavery By Another Name (Documentary)
February 15, 2012
In case you missed the PBS documentary “Slavery By Another Name” when it aired Monday night February 13th, you can click on the link below to watch the whole thing from your computer. Read more about this powerful documentary after the jump below. The above video is just an insight into the making of the documentary, but the full 90 plus minute documentary can be viewed by clicking on the link below.
WATCH: SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME (90 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY)
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Nightclubs As Research Labs (Video)
February 14, 2012
I found this video to be pretty interesting from a scientific aspect as nightclubs are being being used as research labs. Topics covered in the video refer to how music can affect bar sales and people’s ability to multitask, how it determines listening patterns, and how the stock market can affect mood, which in turn predicts the characteristics of popular music. The above lecture quite frankly breaks down social nightclub behaviour with a particular emphasis on music and how it affects people at an implicit level. Spotted at 2DBZ
BLITZ – 2/14/12: Lovers Rock
February 14, 2012
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Happy Valentine’s Day, 100 Year Old Woman Gets Married
Lottery Jackpots Could Swell To Over $500 Million Dollars To A Billion
Romney, Santorum, And Gingrich Plan To Ban Porn
Whitney Houston’s Lawyer Wishes He Could Have Done More
Man Breaks Into House And Cooks Chicken
CDC Warns Of Untreatable Gonorrhea
Brandon Jacobs Would Like To Play For The NY Jets
Board Game Unites ‘Monopoly’ And ‘World Of Warcraft’
Supreme Court Justice Robbed By An Intruder In His Home With A Machete
Actor Seth Rogen Is More Productive When He Is High
Writing “Nigger” On Receipt A Joke For Restaurant Employees
Philadelphia Eagles Curious About Randy Moss Who Announced He’s Coming Out Of Retirement
Popular Lesbian Rapper Criticized For HomophobiaÂ
Mitt Romney Thinks Drug Testing For Welfare Recipients A Good Idea
NYPD Spied On Rev. Al Sharpton
Al Pacino Gets A Medal From The President
Rapper Charged With Three Murders, Including The One He Tweeted About
Bill Clinton Struggled To Deal With The Monica Lewinsky Affair
What We Can Learn From The Laptop Shooting Dad?
Wendy Williams Breaks Down While Speaking On Whitney Houston’s Death
BLITZ – 2/13/12: Grammy Family
February 13, 2012
54th Annual Grammy Award Winners List
Adele Matches Beyonce For Most Grammy Wins In One Night
Talented Black Artists Who Have Never Won A Grammy
Fox News Commentators Racist Responses To Whitney Houston’s Death
Whitney Houston’s Daughter Released From Hospital
Philadelphia Has The Highest Murder Rate In The Country: More Deaths Than Days In 2012
New York Giant Ahmad Bradshaw Disses Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo
Catholic Bishops Reject President Obama’s Revised Birth Control Plan
Competition Grows In The Muli-Billion Dollar Headphone Business
Join The Lin-Sanity: NY Knicks Guard Jeremy Lin Has Become A Global Star
Linsanity Is A Marketers Dream
LeBron James Provoked By Washington Wizards Fan Before Security Steps In
Could The Windows 8 Tablet Be Real Competition for The iPad?
Android Vs iPad: Getting A Tablet On A Budget
Saudi Born Blogger Could Be Executed For His Tweets
Scientists Hope To Build A Universal Human Age Estimator
Fart Joke Leads To Bomb Scare & Arrest
Samuel L. Jackson: “I Voted For Obama Because He Was Black”
Mystery Disease In Central America Is Killing Thousands Of People
Welcome To Atlanta Southwest: Airline Opens Up New Hub From The ATL
Spend Valentine’s Day At Waffle House
Will Ferrell Hilariously Introduces The New Orleans Hornets
Adele Speaks On Life, Love, & Music on 60 Minutes (Video)
February 12, 2012
Adele deserves all the success she’s getting based on true talent & life music. Whenever any Adele song comes on the radio in the car my niece gives me a mini-concert. Adele is one of those artists that my nieces & I can all agree upon. Pure talent, great lyrics, & life music. I wish most artists would get the memo & quit with the gimmicks.
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Dr. Maya Angelou & Common Discuss Kanye West, The N-Word, & Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom (Video)
February 12, 2012
BET aired this Soul Mates special featuring Chi-town emcee & actor Common interviewing Dr. Maya Angelou. She tells a few great stories in this piece in relation to getting your point across while still maneuvering through an entertainment industry that not so subtly has an air of racism within it.
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Breaking: Whitney Houston Found Dead In Her Hotel Room At Age 48
February 11, 2012
CNN Reports Whitney Houston was found dead in her hotel room this evening in Los Angeles. At the present time the cause of death is unknown. More details to come as they become available…
BLITZ – 02/10/2012: Missing….. Black Male College Students
February 10, 2012
HEADLINES
What Was Steve Jobs’s High School GPA? Not 4.0, or Even 3.0
RIAA Lashes Out At Google, Wikipedia And Everyone Who Protested SOPA/PIPA
R&B Singer Ne-Yo Makes It Rain At Magic City Strip Club In Atlanta (Photos)
Philadelphia Attempting Guiness World Record For The World’s Longest ‘Soul Train’ Line
Giant African Snails Invade Florida Threatening Agriculture, Posing Health Risk
50 Cent Visits Famine Victims In Somalia & Kenya In Collaboration with World Food Program
Toilet Use In NYC Jumped 13 Percent In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Super Bowl
Scientists Invent Robot That Powers Itself By Eating Organic Matter, Then Pooping
Ester Baxter Says Video Vixens Are No Longer Making Money In The Industry
Only Four Percent of College Students Are Black Males
Feds Announce $25 Billion Foreclosure Abuse Deal
Chad Ochocinco Changing His Name Back To Chad Johnson
Apple Worth More Than Google And Microsoft Together
FDA Approves Drug That Reverses Alzheimer Symptoms
Police Identify 2 Out Of 3 Suspects In Video Taped Beating
Indian Tribe Sues Beer Maker For Alcohol Problems
Black Leaders Silent On Roland Martin
Ebony Editorial: Marriage Is Dead
Suge Knight Arrested On Vegas Drug & Traffic Charges
Military Women To Serve Closer To Frontline
Black Caucus Proposes HOPE Changes
Developers in Azerbaijan Are Planning To Build A Kilometer-High Skyscraper; World’s Tallest
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Blake x CP3: Welcome To Lob City
February 10, 2012
There’s new sheriffs in Floss Angeles…..Blake Griffin & Chris Paul lead the charge in “New Lob City”. Check out the preview of the interview written by former Atlanta based music & sports writer Lang Whitaker from the SLAM site.
Posted in Cover Story, News, Sports | Tags: Basketball, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, CP3, Los Angeles Clippers, NBA, Slam, Slam Magazine | 1 Comment »
BLITZ – 2/9/12: Twitter Is The Devil
February 9, 2012
HEADLINES
Roland Martin Suspended By CNN
The 10 Meanest Fan Bases In Sports
University Sells Plan B Pill In Vending Machine
Netflix To Face Some Stiff Competition
Your Waiter Could Be Replaced By Your Tablet Soon
“Thrill Killer” Teen Sentenced To Life With Parole For Girl’s Murder
Grandmother Leaves 1 Month Old Grandson On Side Of Highway
Atlanta DJ Faces Murder Charge After Shooting Man 5 Times In Strip Club Parking Lot
New York Giants Running Back Responds To Gisele’s Comments
Now You Can Breathe In Your Caffeine
Santorum Campaign Gains Momentum After 3 State Sweep
The Best And Worst Burgers In America
States Move Closer To Settling Foreclosure Abuse Deal
Prosecutors Want Sandusky To Stay Indoors During House Arrest
The iPhone Is A Nightmare For Carriers
Judge Orders Man To Take Wife On DateÂ
China Laces Up It’s Chuck Taylors
Paul Pierce Passes Larry Bird on Celtics Scoring List
Student Loan Debt Pushing More Young People Into Bankruptcy
The Mystery Billionaire Behind 5 Hour Energy
BLITZ – 2/8/12: F%@K The City Up
February 8, 2012
HEADLINES
Changing the (Dis)Course of HIV/AIDS in the Black Community
Jay-Z Brings Hip Hop To Carnegie Hall
Irony? Dr. Conrad Murray In Cell Next To Janet Jackson’s Ex-Husband
Obama Campaign To Return 200k Tied To Mexican Fugitive
Facebook Founder Stuck With 1 Billion-Plus Tax Bill
Amar’e Stoudemire Brother Killed In Car Crash
Pinterest is 2012’s New Hottest Site
Elementary School To Replace Staff Amidst Abuse Allegations
Bank of America Plaza To Be Auctioned Off
Virginia Senate Passes Voter ID Measure
Karen Handel Resigns From Komen For The Cure
Dad Arrested For Biting 1 Year Old Son
Karl Malone Feuding With Utah Jazz Owner
Apple Looking For iTV Launch Partners
Nicki Minaj Perpetuates White Beauty Standard
Newt Gingrich Says Spanish Is The Language Of The Ghetto
New Study Suggests Gang Violence Is Not Less Connected To Drugs Than Expected
Whoo Kid Tells Story Of Big Pun Pulling Out An Uzi On Him (Video)
February 7, 2012
Whoo Kid’s stories are hilarious! As we honor the late great Christopher Rios aka Big Pun today, DJ Whoo Kid speaks on a time when he damn near had to beg for his life after a situation with Big Pun.
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BLITZ – 2/7/12: J Dilla Forever
February 7, 2012
HEADLINES
Drake Responds To Lawsuit
Do You Considered Yourself “African-American”?
Jay-Z Worth 500 Million Dollars, But Only Gave Only $6K To The Scholarship Fund He Created
Is The Help The Most Loathsome Movie in America?
African-Americans Used As Decoy In Human Smuggling Ring
Woman calls 911 And Is Raped By The Responding Officer
Man Gets Beat For Wearing Skinny Jeans
House Passes Bill To Ban Welfare Recipients From Using Federal Funds In The Strip Club
The Price Of Gas Expected To Soar To $6 A Gallon By Spring
Mannie Fresh Rumored To Be Signing With G.O.O.D. Music
Can Bad Credit Keep You From Getting A Job?
Former White House Intern Speaks On 18-Month Affair With President John F. Kennedy
3 Year Old Boy Crawls Into A Toy Vending Machine For Stuff Animals & Candy
“Blue collar mechanic” in anti-union Super Bowl ad actually a multimillionaire lobbying consultant
Prison Phones: Making Millions by Draining Families
Black Web 2.0 Celebrates Black History Highlighting Black Tech Entrepreneurs
Allen Iverson In Talks To Play In Puerto Rico
What Washington Can Do To Stop Rising Black Unemployment Rate
Kobe Passes Shaq For 5th Place On NBA’s All-Time Scoring List
An Amazon Store May Be In The Works
David Beckham Gets Thrown Out Of Kids Game
Madden NFL Video Game Simulation Closely Predicted Super Bowl XLVI Outcome
The Mixtape Of The Revolution: A New York Times Opinion Piece
BLITZ – 02/06/2012: And The Winner Is….
February 6, 2012
Giants Beat Patriots In Superbowl
Patriots Release Player Night Before Super Bowl
Atlanta Parents March In Protest Against Redistricting Plans
Bishop Long Apologizes to Jewish Community
NFL Considers Getting Rid of The Pro Bowl
The Best Super Bowl Commercials Of The Night
Prosecutors Drop Case Against Lance Armstrong
Tax Company Steals Refund Checks
M.I.A. Flips Bird During Super Bowl Performance
Gas Prices To Rise 60Â Cents By May
Aruba Offers Super Bowl Losers Free Trip
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President Obama’s Pre-Super Bowl Interview with Matt Lauer (Video)
February 5, 2012
President Obama speaks with Matt Lauer briefly about NFL football then gets down to business with the nation’s & global politics….
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NY Police Officers Caught on High Quality Video Breaking Into a Teenager’s Home & Murdering Him (Video)
February 5, 2012
Here we go again with these rogue police officers who are murdering innocent men & women. This time it was all caught on a security camera how two NY police officers broke down the door of Ramarley Graham’s home without a warrant & murdered him in cold blood. No weapon was found in the man’s home or on his person. Shout out to my homie Jamal Garrett who put me onto what happened last night…
Soul Train Flash Mob Hits Times Square In Honor Of Don Cornelius (Video)
February 4, 2012
“Fans of “Soul Train” boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the show’s late creator, Don Cornelius. About 100 dancers descended on Times Square in a “flash mob” organized through the Internet. As startled tourists looked on, they recreated one of the show’s “Soul Train lines” in which people would take turns dancing toward a TV camera while showing off their most outrageous moves.” – Billboard
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