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January 11, 2011
JERUSALEM (AP) - After serving eight years in prison for a nightclub shooting, the former protege of Sean "Diddy" Combs…
January 10, 2011
EDNA, Texas (AP) - Texas DPS says DNA samples link Harris to at least five assaults or attempted assaults over…
January 6, 2011
CLUTCH - Tiny is taking her "ride-or-die" role just a little too far. Two months into T.I.'s 11-month prison sentence…
December 29, 2010
OPINION - Obama's empathy for Vick speaks volumes on what our president thinks about the state of our corrupt and…
December 27, 2010
HONOLULU (AP) - The White House says Obama also applauded the Eagles' plan to install wind turbines and solar panels…
December 20, 2010
PHOENIX (AP) - He was sentenced last week to spend one year in prison...
December 16, 2010
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - Lakin was convicted of disobeying orders -- he had pleaded guilty to that count --…
December 16, 2010
OPINION - The participants in this labor pool are not given a choice, they are forced into corporate servitude...
December 15, 2010
OPINION - The sharp growth in incarceration has left more black people in prison today than there were black people…
December 9, 2010
LEWIS RUN, Pennsylvania (AP) - The minimum security prison camp is worlds away from the harsh prison fortresses depicted in…
December 9, 2010
LEWIS RUN, Pennsylvania (AP) - The most jarring aspect of the celebrity's stay might be the five daily head counts,…
December 8, 2010
OPINION - He, like so many other black men, will serve time for an offense that would typically result in…
December 7, 2010
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - The judge wrote that Snipes had plenty of time to prepare "for the impact that his…
December 7, 2010
REVIEW - The album has seen it's ups-and-downs parallel the man behind it and now hits shelves as the rapper…
November 24, 2010
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Snipes has been free on bail while appealing his 2008 conviction for willful failure to file…
November 24, 2010
SLIDESHOW - Here are some of those artists who, despite some of their mention of drugs in lyrics and "misdemeanor"…
November 19, 2010
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Judge William Terrell Hodges in Ocala, Florida, rejected a request from the actor's attorneys to review…
November 17, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Several Rastafarian and other inmates in Virginia who had been held in isolation for refusing to…
November 15, 2010
CLUTCH - Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Records, says it's his fault and society's fault that our favorite rappers…
November 15, 2010
OPINION - The reality that this industry has in fact been acquiring massive wealth off of communities of color at…