According to USA Today, Jay-Z is applying to become a baseball agent with Major League Baseball Players Association receiving his application to be certified was received last week.
Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports and CAA Sports announced last week New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano was their first client.
Jay-Z, who denied he was selling his shares of the Brooklyn Nets in the song…
Inhumane treatment fueled inmates to riot in the Attica Prison. The riots end with Officers, that had been taken hostage dead along with inmates. Inmates were systematically tortured and accused of slashing the throats of the hostages. Later, Coroner reports showed cause of death was a result of being shot by a gun
Clip of Resurrection City in D.C., in 68. After the assassination of MLK, poor people, from all walks of life and from every corner in America marched to the Capital, setting up house on the National Mall in Washington. This was to demand the government to acknowledge that the billions spent on the War in Vietnam was literally sending more and more Americans to the poor house.
How ex-pimp Robert Beck transformed into writer Iceberg Slim,introducing a new genre for literature, film and music
By Mark Skillz
http://hiphop101a.blogspot.com/2010/02/next-hustle.html
Robert Beck was forty-seven years old when he started writing a brutal book called Pimp. On one hand, it was an ode to his former profession, but on the other…it was all he had.
In twelve years, Beck wrote seven books, which vividly captured the inner world of the street hustler.
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People have often talked about fighting wars using biological and chemical weapons. We came after Hitler for using them. We came after Saddam Hussein for using them. Sadly no one ever came after those who flooded urban communities during the 1980s and into the 90s with Crack. If this wasn't a weapon of mass destruction, I don't know what was..
Dear friends,
I wanted to let you know about a new petition I created on We the People, a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your name to mine? If this petition gets 100,000 signatures by March 20, 2013, the White House will review it and respond!
We the People allows anyone to create and sign petitions asking the Obama Administration to take action on a range of issues.
Historic 1967 Speech to National Association of Radio Announcers
This weekend we’ll be celebrating Dr Martin Luther King‘s birthday and in doing so we should all be mindful of the power of his words. We should be mindful of King’s words as we continue to dialogue about what sort of responsibility those who speak to the public have especially via broadcast medium especially with respect to Black Radio..We thought we'd take a walk down memory lane and listen to what King had to say about the role BLACK RADIO played in furthering the Civil Rights struggle..It was a speech given in August of 1967 in Atlanta, Ga to…
