WHO RAN IT...TWO REMAKES OF "I'M READY" ORIGINALLY DONE BY A KEYS....

LAWSUIT FROM ONE OF THE "REAL" BASKETBALL WIVES (SHE IS ACTUALLY ONLY AN EX-GIRLFRIEND)

Basketball player Ricky Davis' Vanessa Davis has stirred up some drama. There is not too much information available on Vanessa's background, aside from the fact that she married Ricky Davis in 2009 and that her maiden name is Ramirez. She is currently all over the media due to some controversy between her and Evelyn Lozada, the former fiance of Antoine Walker. Lozada is suing Vanessa Davis for supposedly stealing topless photographs of her and publishing them for everyone to view. Lozada is asking Davis for 15,000 dollars in damages.

Now, why would Davis be accused of such an activity? Or do something like this? Supposedly she felt spurned because she was not chosen as a basketball wife on VH1's "Basketball Wives," whereas Evelyn Lozada was the star of the show. I haven't really seen the show, nor do I care to so I don't know much about it. Correct me if I am wrong. I am not really a fan of watching women who live off their husbands' fame. Anyway, getting back to the issue at hand: supposedly Vanessa Davis is jealous of Evelyn Lozada and is out to "get her." She is said to have slandered Lozada publicly, referring to her as a prostitute and a whore.

Sounds like typical woman cat-fight type of behavior to me. Davis is reported to have said that she will counter-sue Lozada if she causes any trouble.

WHAT A MOTHERFUCKER LOOKS LIKE....

WORD OF THE DAY....MOTHERFUCKER....

is a vulgarism which, in its most literal use, refers to one who participates in sexual intercourse with someone's mother.

The term gained traction during World War II, originally amongst African American GIs, and was applied to American soldiers (black, white, or otherwise) in war-torn Europe who would trade food, money, or anything of value for sex with desperately poor or starving French and German women. Many of these women were housewives whose husbands had been conscripted away, killed, or imprisoned, leaving the women to support the couple's children alone.

AFRICAN AMERICAN LESBIAN TO LEAD MONTGOMERY COLLEGE

DeRionne P. Pollard, a California community college president known for having boundless energy in the face of state budget cuts, was announced Tuesday as the new president of Montgomery College.

Pollard, 39, is the ninth chief executive of Maryland's largest two-year college and the first since the departure in September of Brian K. Johnson. Trustees removed Johnson amid allegations of overspending and lapses in management, an episode that briefly plunged the school into administrative chaos.

In the aftermath, faculty and staff said they were looking for someone to believe in. On Tuesday, trustees gave them Pollard. She gave them a promise.

"You will not find any community college president in the country who is willing to work harder for our students and our community," she said, greeting staff members in an auditorium at the flagship campus in Rockville. She received a standing ovation.

Employees unleashed even louder applause for Hercules Pinkney, the retired administrator who had returned as interim president and guided the college through a comparatively peaceful and productive academic year.

"The past nine months have certainly been a journey for Montgomery College," Pinkney said, speaking before Pollard was introduced. "I can say with more confidence than ever, Montgomery College is strong, Montgomery College is one, Montgomery College is family."

The five-month search for Johnson's permanent successor yielded more than 50 candidates. Pollard's unassuming manner immediately won over the search committee, members said.

"From the moment we interviewed her, we knew that she was one of the finalists," said Janice DuFour, an instructional assistant and one of the panel's 17 members. "She's warm, she's engaging, she just has that type of 'wow' personality."

Pollard was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. Her mother died when Pollard was 4, and she was raised chiefly by her father, who devised her first name (pronounced Dear-E-uhn).

"Education was highly valued in my family," Pollard, the elder of two daughters in a household that prized books over television, said in an interview. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Iowa State University and a doctorate in higher education leadership from Loyola University on Chicago's North Side.

Pollard started work as an assistant English professor in 1995 at the College of Lake County in the Chicago suburbs, teaching composition and courses on major American writers and women in literature. By her third year in the profession, she was taking on an administrative role in a professional development program. She became vice president and chief academic officer there.

In 2008, Pollard assumed the presidency of Las Positas College in Livermore, Calif., near San Francisco. Under her tenure, the school experienced rising enrollment and declining funds, and California's community college system took $520 million in cuts in the 2009-10 academic year amid a statewide fiscal meltdown.

Pollard greeted austerity with enthusiasm, helping to create "a hard-working, optimistic culture" across the campus of nearly 10,000 students, said Sarah Thompson, president of the Academic Senate at Las Positas.

"I think she grew a lot here, and very quickly," Thompson said. "She's a phenomenal woman, and as she gains more experience, she's just [going to be] a force."

Pollard, who signed a five-year contract Tuesday, will start work at Montgomery College in August at a salary of $250,000. She said that her goal will be to make it the nation's most "relevant" community college and that she will look to successful nonprofit and for-profit models for ways to offer students the most useful courses -- at times and in places that suit their needs.

She said she hopes to grow deep roots in the county with her longtime partner, Robyn Jones, and their 3-year-old son, Myles.

"I know that I will be at home here," she told the faculty and staff, "and I thank you for that."

BEFORE THERE WAS GAGA...THERE WAS LADY GRACE...

LEGENDARY STATUS....THIS IS WHAT 62 YEARS YOUNG LOOKS LIKE

ANOTHER GENERATION OF SELF HATE....WTF?

Anderson Cooper of CNN has done another one of his controversial and thought-provoking studies. He spoke to students in Georgia as young as 5 to gauge whether kids still have a racial bias at a young age in 2010.

The video is interesting yet disturbing. We have it when you read on...

Parents also talk about the different ways they address race with their young children as part of this "AC360" special coverage "Black or White: Kids on race". CNN.com writes:

A 5-year-old girl in Georgia is being asked a series of questions in her school library. The girl, who is white, is looking at pictures of five cartoons of girls, all identical except for skin color ranging from light to dark.

When asked who the smart child is, she points to a light-skinned doll. When asked who the mean child is she points to a dark-skinned doll. She says a white child is good because "I think she looks like me", and says the black child is ugly because "she's a lot darker."

As she answers her mother watches, and gently weeps.

The study also portrays other children of different backgrounds and races answering the same questions. And also answering questions that show even in kids as young as 5, they have a racial bias of thinking white is smarter, prettier, and better. Peep the video and speak on it. Are there solutions for issues like these? Or is it a hopeless and inevitable situation?

HAWT.....PHOTO OF THE MONTH

ALL ABOUT THE EYES....BEAUTIFUL....

2010 BET NOMINATIONS...AND YOUR PICS ARE???

Best Female R&B Artist

Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige
Melanie Fiona
Alicia Keys
Rihanna

Best Male R&B Artist

Chris Brown
Raheem DeVaughn
Maxwell
Trey Songz
Usher

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist

Ester Dean
Lil’ Kim
Nicki Minaj
Rasheeda
Trina

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist

B.o.B
Drake
Fabolous
Jay-Z
Ludacris

Best New Artist

Justin Bieber
Melanie Fiona
Nicki Minaj
Wale
Young Money

Best Gospel

The Anointed Pace Sisters
Kirk Franklin Presents Artists United For Haiti
Tamela Mann
Marvin Sapp
Vickie Winans

Best Group

Black Eyed Peas
Clipse
Diddy-Dirty Money
New Boyz
Young Money

Best Collaboration

Beyoncé f/ Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B f/ Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Drake & Trey Songz – “Successful”
Drake f/ Lil Wayne, Kanye West & Eminem – “Forever”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Trey Songz f/ Fabolous – “Say Aah”

Video Director of the Year

Benny Boom
Gil Green
Anthony Mandler
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams

Video of the Year

Beyoncé f/ Lady Gaga – “Video Phone”
B.o.B f/ Bruno Mars – “Nothin’ on You”
Melanie Fiona – “It Kills Me”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West – “Run This Town”

Viewer’s Choice

Beyoncé – “Sweet Dreams”
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Monica – “Everything to Me”
Rihanna f/ Young Jeezy – “Hard”
Trey Songz f/ Fabolous – “Say Aah”
Young Money (Lil Wayne, Gudda Gudda, Nicki Minaj, Jae Millz, Drake, Tyga) f/ Lloyd – “Bedrock”

Best International Act

Kojo Antwi (Ghana)
Chipmunk (UK)
Dizzee Rascal (UK)
Estelle (UK)
Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) (South Africa)
K’NAAN (Somalia)
M.I. (Nigeria)
P-Square (Nigeria)
Corinne Bailey Rae (UK)
Sade (UK)

Centric Award

Melanie Fiona
Maxwell
Chrisette Michele
Monica
Sade

WHY ARE WHITES FIVE TIMES WEALTHIER THAN BLACKS???

A huge wealth gap has opened up between black and white people in the US over the past quarter of a century – a difference sufficient to put two children through university – because of racial discrimination and economic policies that favour the affluent.

A typical white family is now five times richer than its African-American counterpart of the same class, according to a report released today by Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

White families typically have assets worth $100,000 (£69,000), up from $22,000 in the mid-1980s. African-American families' assets stand at just $5,000, up from around $2,000.

A quarter of black families have no assets at all. The study monitored more than 2,000 families since 1984.

"We walk that through essentially a generation and what we see is that the racial wealth gap has galloped, it's escalated to $95,000," said Tom Shapiro, one of the authors of the report by the university's Institute on Assets and Social Policy.

"That's primarily because the whites in the sample were able to accumulate financial assets from their $22,000 all the way to $100,000 and the African-Americans' wealth essentially flatlined."

The survey does not include housing equity, because it is not readily accessible and is rarely realised as cash. But if property were included it would further widen the wealth divide.

Shapiro says the gap remains wide even between blacks and whites of similar classes and with similar jobs and incomes.

"How do we explain the wealth gap among equally-achieving African-American and white families? The same ratio holds up even among low income groups. Finding ways to accumulate financial resources for all low and moderate income families in the United States has been a huge challenge and that challenge keeps getting steeper and steeper.

"But there are greater opportunities and less challenges for low and moderate income families if they're white in comparison to if they're African-American or Hispanic," he said.

America has long lived with vast inequality, although 40 years ago the disparity was lower than in Britain.

Today, the richest 1% of the US population owns close to 40% of its wealth. The top 25% of US households own 87%.

The rest is divided up among middle and low income Americans. In that competition white people come out far ahead.

Only one in 10 African-Americans owns any shares. A third do not have a pension plan, and among those who do the value is on average a fifth of plans held by whites.

Shapiro says one of the most disturbing aspects of the study is that wealth among the highest-income African-Americans has actually fallen in recent years, dropping from a peak of $25,000 to about $18,000, while among white counterparts of similar class and income it has surged to around $240,000.

In 1984, high-income black Americans had more assets than middle-income whites. That is no longer true.

"I'm a pretty jaded and cynical researcher in some way, but this was shocking, quite frankly, a really important dynamic," said Shapiro. "This represents a broken chain of achievement. In the United States context, when we are thinking about racial equality and the economy we have focused for a long time on equal opportunity.

"Equal opportunity assumes that some people who have that opportunity are going to have pretty high achievements in terms of their jobs, their work, their income, their home ownership.

"The assumption in a democracy is that merit and achievement are going to be rewarded and the rewards here are financial assets. We should see some rough parity and we don't."

The report attributes part of the cause to the "powerful role of persistent discrimination in housing, credit and labour markets. African-Americans and Hispanics were at least twice as likely to receive high-cost home mortgages as whites with similar incomes," the report says.

Although many black families have moved up to better-paying jobs, they begin with fewer assets, such as inheritance, on which to build wealth. They are also more likely to have gone into debt to pay for university loans.

"African-Americans, before the 1960s, first by law and then by custom, were not really allowed to own businesses. They had very little access to credit. There was a very low artificial ceiling on the wealth that could be accumulated. Hence there was very little, if anything, that could be passed along to help their children get to college, to help their children buy their first homes, or as an inheritance when they die," said Shapiro.

Since the 1980s, US administrations have also geared the tax system to the advantage of the better off. Taxes on unearned income, such as shares and inheritance, fell sharply and are much lower than taxes on pay.

"The more income and wealth people had, the less it was taxable," said Shapiro.

There were also social factors, the study found. "In African-American families there is a much larger extended network of kin as well as other obligations. From other work we've done we know that there's more call on the resources of relatively well-off African-American families; that they lend money that's not given back; they help cousins go to school. They help brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, with all kinds of legal and family problems," said Shapiro.

WHEN REMAKES GO WRONG...TERRIBLY WRONG....(I'LL STICK WITH THE ORIGINAL VERSION)

TIME TO HIT THE BEACH....ARE YOU READY?

THAT WAS THEN....THIS IS NOW...(LEAD SINGER OF BOTH GROUPS)

WHO RAN IT...OLD SCHOOL VS. NEW SCHOOL....CLASSIC!!!!!!

DOES THE 21 YR. OLD OR THE 40 YR. OLD HAVE IT???

DOMINICANS DO IT BETTER? HAIR THAT IS....

Delshawn Rollins once trusted only fellow African-Americans with the delicate task of styling and straightening her tightly curled brown hair.

But that meant enduring hours of salon gossip, ordered-in lunch (and sometimes dinner, too) and occasional mishaps, like the time the ends of her hair snapped off after she had it dyed.

Fed up, the 35-year-old respiratory therapist last fall pulled out a flier she had for a new salon that promised to "work magic" using "Dominican styling." She was in and out of The Hair Co. USA, which displays the Dominican flag in the front window, within two hours, sporting a straight, feathery "do" for $20 less than she had been paying her old stylist.

"My hair has this flow," she says. People ask where she has it done.

Armed with a blow dryer and brush, deft wrist action and shrewd promotional tactics, immigrants from the Dominican Republic are snipping away market share from African-American stylists whose mastery of black women's hair ensured for generations that their customers wouldn't, or couldn't, leave them. Promises of seemingly healthier hair, swifter service and far lower prices are wooing away a growing number of black women.

Ms. Rollins and most other African-American women require a chemical "relaxer" to straighten their hair and get touch-up treatments every six weeks or so. She and many other customers say another benefit of the Dominican technique is that it extends the life of straightening chemicals, thus reducing the frequency of application and potentially harmful effects.

The defections have infuriated African-American stylists who insist that their methods are safe and that they are more highly trained than the Dominicans are. "It's hard enough in these times, but they are undercutting our prices, even passing out fliers to our own clients," complains Atlanta hairdresser Jannifer Jackson, whose cancellations and no-shows began piling up once a Dominican salon opened about a mile away last summer.

Emily Martinez, a stylist at Sintia's Dominican Salon in Landover, Md., demonstrates the Dominican blowout.

Many traditional black stylists accuse Dominicans of misrepresenting their services as "natural" because nearly all Dominican salons perform relaxer touch-ups. Traditionalists say the "Dominican blowout" technique can cause severe hair breakage. Both sorts of stylists wash, set hair in rollers and seat customers under big dryers.

African-American stylists typically use a curling iron to unfurl the hair, while Dominicans use a two-handed method of unraveling the strands with a round brush, followed by a blow dryer in the other hand to smooth the curl to a straight finish. Dominicans do so by pulling from the hair root, often forcefully. That, along with applying the second round of intense heat, leads to breakage, say black stylists and some customers.

"Bad Boy" Romeo Crews, a prominent and outspoken black stylist in Atlanta, has no fear of the blowout. "Let me tell you," he says, "they are helping my business because people are coming to me after the Dominicans make their hair fall out."

Dominican stylists deny the accusations. The majority of Dominicans are themselves black, and like African-Americans, they developed their skills by styling their own hair. "We have stylists—black stylists—all the time calling and asking to come and train with us," boasts Alfredo Rhoden, co-owner of Dominican Hair Salon by Massiel in suburban Atlanta.

The financial impact of the Dominican incursion on black American salons is hard to gauge. Sales volume isn't tracked by the race or ethnicity of salon owners. But industry experts, salon owners and stylists say the impact is indisputable. A fixture in New York City since the 1980s, Dominicans now are rapidly expanding to other U.S. cities.
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U.S. salon services generated $50.3 billion in 2009 revenue, mostly from small, independently owned shops, according to industry research firm Professional Consultants & Resources. Most black salons are independently owned, with self-employed stylists who rent booths from shop owners. Black women overwhelmingly outnumber other consumers of "ethnic" hair products, which recorded a 3.2% sales increase in 2009, to $1.5 billion, despite a decline in sales of hair-care products overall, according to consumer research group Packaged Facts. U.S. sales of all hair-care products totaled $9.7 billion last year, says market research outfit Kline & Co.

New Jersey stylist and barber Gina Brydie formed the National Black Cosmetology Association last year to help salon owners strengthen their businesses against the recession and the increasing Dominican competition.

"We have Asians coming in with the beauty supplies and Dominicans coming in and taking over our industry," says Ms. Brydie, 39 years old and 20 years in the business. Salons and barber shops are a proud touchstone for blacks in part because they were among the earliest black-owned businesses, providing one of few paths to economic advancement after slavery. By the early 1900s, black entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker had become a self-made millionaire by making hair and beauty products for blacks.

Now, rather than trying to beat the Dominicans, some African-American business owners are joining them. Jennifer Drew started RoundBrushHair.com in 2007 to help Dominican salons market to blacks after she switched to the blowout and saw curiosity budding among black women.

The RoundBrushHair.com database has grown to include several hundred Dominican salons, from Sun Valley, Calif., to Chicago to Boston. Almost all opened in the past five years, Ms. Drew says. It includes 80 salons in metropolitan Washington, 95 in Georgia, 15 in Charlotte, N.C., and seven in Houston.

"Some black stylists hate on me, think I've crossed over to the other side," says Ms. Drew, who also sells hair products manufactured in the Dominican Republic to black-owned salons.

The salon to which Ms. Rollins defected is doing well. Owner Monica Clark, who is African-American, opened the shop in 2008 as a traditional black salon. But business was slow and when faced with closing a few months later, she replaced her stylists with Dominicans, brushed up on her Spanish, redecorated, reduced her prices by $10 and renamed her shop The Hair Company USA Dominican Hair Salon. She's playing merengue music now on the stereo. She says client volume has increased by 60% and sales have tripled.

PERFECT COMBINATION....THE RAPPER IS VERY INTELLIGENT AND STILL HOOD

Glossary of T.I’s Big Words

Acronym – Words formed from the initial letters of other words
Abbreviation – to shorten a word, phrase or text
Evolve – to develop gradually from a simple to a more complex form
Paranoia – unreasonably or excessively anxious (scared)
Jaded – tired, bored or lacking enthusiasm after accomplishing a lot
Fend – to look after and provide for oneself
Consideration – careful thought
Phenomenal – a remarkable person, thing or event

7 THINGS TO STOP DOING ON FACEBOOK IMMEDIATELY....

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs!

Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile

It's an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you've already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls

For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friends of friends, or yourself. Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious views, and family information, among other things. You can give only certain people or groups access to items such as photos, or block particular people from seeing them. Consider leaving out contact info, such as phone number and address, since you probably don't want anyone to have access to that information anyway.

Posting Your Child's Name in a Caption

Don't use a child's name in photo tags or captions. If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag. If your child isn't on Facebook and someone includes his or her name in a caption, ask that person to remove the name.

Mentioning That You'll Be Away From Home

That's like putting a "no one's home" sign on your door. Wait until you get home to tell everyone how awesome your vacation was and be vague about the date of any trip.

Letting Search Engines Find You

To help prevent strangers from accessing your page, go to the Search section of Facebook's privacy controls and select Only Friends for Facebook search results. Be sure the box for public search results isn't checked.

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised

Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over, but children younger than that do use it. If you have a young child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends. Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities. "What they think is nothing can actually be pretty serious," says Charles Pavelites, a supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. For example, a child who posts the comment "Mom will be home soon, I need to do the dishes" every day at the same time is revealing too much about the parents' regular comings and goings.

OPEN RELATIONSHIPS...DEFINED

I'm all for allowing people to define their romantic relationships however they see fit, but ummm can you really claim someone as yours if you're not together? Open relationships seem to be like playing Russian roulette; could be exciting but ultimately are extremely dangerous. Someone is always going to be the good cop (the faithful one) while the other is the bad cop; it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

If you have "mad love for each other," doesn't that love suggest wanting to take care of the other person's heart? I don't know how it is possible to protect someone's feelings when you're keeping the door open to possibly have those same feelings for someone else.

I've found that people who claim to be in open relationships most often are not doing so by their own choice. Most often, they are forced upon one party by the other. This got me to thinking,

What makes open relationships any different from just casually dating?

FROM: http://www.itsthelaurenshow.com/

A SIN AND SHAME...R.I.P. LEON WALKER

A Gary, Indiana man is facing murder charges after police say he bound, tortured and beat to death his 5-year-old son as punishment for taking a roll out of the oven.

Police have 28-year-old Leon DeNeal Burns in custody for the death of 5-year-old Leon Walker after the boy was taken to the hospital covered in welts and bruises and pronounced dead on arrival.

Burns and his live-in girlfriend Rochell Johnson have been charged with eight felonies for the death of the child including murder and neglect.

Johnson admitted to police that she was there while the boy's hands were tied with an extension cord and he was beaten and punched until his neck was broken causing instant death.

Police report that Burns told them he would often beat the boy for lying, calling him a “major liar” and saying that this time he beat him because he "lied about eating a roll from the stove."

When police first reported to the scene of the crime, the couple lied about the boy's whereabouts, saying the child was still with his mother Turquoise Walker.

Police have since disputed those claims saying Walker has been in a “closed rehabilitation center” for the past two weeks and did not have access to the child.

After his arrest Burns admitted his wrongdoing to police saying he probably “went too far.”

He appeared in court Tuesday and pled not guilty to the charges. He will appear in court again on June 18.

TOP 10 CITIES WITH BLACK PEOPLE...

1. New York
2. Atlanta
3. Chicago
4. Washington
5. Philadelphia
6. Miami-MUST BE COUNTING THE WEST INDIANS AND AFRICANS
7. Detroit
8. Houston
9. Los Angeles
10. Dallas

Courtesy of: Brookings Institute

KARMA IS A BITCH....BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME PIRATES

It’s difficult to feel sorry for armed Somali pirates who routinely hijack ships in international waters, holding crew and cargo for ransom.

Some pirates get lucky and make off with millions in cash in return for the safe passage of the ship’s crew and cargo.

But these days most Somali pirates end up sleeping with the fishes.

The Somali pirates in the photo above are all deceased now according to a Somali pirate spokesman.

The “young men” had the misfortune of boarding a Russian oil tanker last week (the MV Moscow University carrying 86,000 tons of oil). The pirates held the tanker’s crew of 23, plus the oil, for ransom.

Obviously the Russians feel some kind of way about their oil. So the Russian troopers who stormed the ship decided not to take names, ranks or serial numbers. They simply lined the pirates up on the deck, shot them each point blank in the head and dumped their bodies over the railing — this, according to the pirate spokesman.

But the Russians have an entirely different version of the events that took place last week. The soldiers say the pirates were “released” on the open sea and they simply never made it back to shore.

But the pirate spokesman disputes the Russians:
“The Russians never released the young men. Instead they shot them point-blank range then loaded their lifeless bodies back on the boat,” he said.

TUESDAY PYT'S....

If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived...

IT'S LIKE CANDY....

KUDOS TO THE ORIGINAL PIMP.....GRACE JONES....

ALPHA PHI ALPHA PROTESTS IMMIGRATION LAW IN ARIZONA...

The first intercollegiate Greek-letter organization established by African Americans is speaking out against the controversial Arizona immigration law.

As previously reported, governor Jan Brewer signed a bill set to take effect this summer that permits law enforcement to question people's immigration status at their discretion. The controversial concept has sparked outrage particularly in the Hispanic community who fears it will prompt racial profiling.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated has decided to set an example to other organizations and has pulled plans to host their annual convention in the state's capitial of Phoenix. Instead of the Arizona location, fraternity members will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Speaking out against the law in an email, the heads of the organization said,

“the Board of Directors of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity voted unanimously to rescind the location of Phoenix, Arizona, as our meeting location of the 104th Anniversary/90th General Convention in July, and to denounce the egregious immigration act signed recently by the governor of Arizona. It was the full opinion of the board that we could not host a meeting in a state that has sanctioned a law which we believe will lead to racial profiling and discrimination, and a law that could put the civil rights and the very dignity of our members at risk during their stay in Phoenix Arizona."

SOME MIAMI SHIT....OLD VS. NEW SCHOOL....(GO MONICA)

REMIX KILLING THE ORIGINAL SONG...(TIME TO SIT DOWN USHER)