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T.I and wife Tiny arrested for an alleged drug possession

T.I and wife Tiny arrested for an alleged drug possession

T.I and his wife Tameka Dianne Cottle also known as Tiny were arrested late Wednesday during a traffic stop.Police in Los Angeles is reporting that rapper Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. also known as T.I and his wife Tameka Dianne Cottle also known as Tiny were arrested late [Read More]

Chicago 1919 Race Riot In Retrospect

Chicago 1919 Race Riot In Retrospect

  Rock throwing white youths during the 1919 race riotEarly dawn today, I parked my car at the 63rd Street lakefront parking lot and rode my bike along the lakefront bike path to the Buckingham Fountain. As I approached the 29th street lakefront, a strong sense of [Read More]

Ohio Police Visual Estimation Warrants a Speed Ticket

Ohio Police Visual Estimation Warrants a Speed Ticket

  Source: supremecourt.ohio.gov Ohio Supreme Court ruled 5-1 that a police officer’s visual estimation of a vehicle’s speed is sufficient to support a speeding conviction without independent verification.Yesterday, Ohio Supreme Court ruled 5-1 that a police [Read More]

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Goes To Prison

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Goes To Prison

Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images North America By: Charles S. Mombo /Kwame KilpatrickOn the issue of Detroit's former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sentencing today – whether he had been wrong, why he had been wrong or whether he was sorry is not my call to make. To [Read More]

Aubrey Louis Berry acquitted of Killing Rapper Dolla

Aubrey Louis Berry acquitted of Killing Rapper Dolla

(AP Photo/Reed Saxon) Aubrey Louis Berry acquitted Killing rapper Dolla.Nearly a year ago Dolla, the Atlanta-based rapper also known as Roderick Anthony Burton II was fatally shot and killed in the valet waiting area of the Beverly Center mall by Aubrey Louis Berry, 24 [Read More]

What Going On Chicago – Brother Don’t Shoot Me

What Going On Chicago – Brother Don’t Shoot Me

Photo Credit: Jose M. Osorio/Tribune Mother mother, There's too many of you crying; Brother brother brother; There's far too many of you dying; You know we've got to find a way; To bring some lovin' here today; Don't punish me with brutality. Thomas [Read More]

Bellaire Police Acquitted After Killing Black Youth Face Down

Bellaire Police Acquitted After Killing Black Youth Face Down

Sgt. Jeffrey Cotton, a white police officer of the Bellaire Police Department was found not guilty in Houston, Texas for shooting and killing Robert Tolan, a 23-year-old Black or African American man. Robert Tolan was forced to lie face down before he was shot. [Read More]

Chicago’s O.K. Corral – Urban Gunfights

Chicago’s O.K. Corral – Urban Gunfights

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis was talking about surging gun violence when he was pulled away. Photo Credit: (John J. Kim/Chicago Sun-Times) Today is not October 26, 1881, and we are not in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States. Today is April 03, 2010 and we [Read More]

Naomi Campbell Refuses to Turn the Other Cheek

Naomi Campbell Refuses to Turn the Other Cheek

The leggy supermodel Naomi Campbell It appears that the leggy supermodel Naomi Campbell is not familiar with the phrase turning the other cheek. The phrase in the Christian doctrine that refers to responding to an aggressor without violence. The phrase originates from the [Read More]

Indicted Illinois Governor Blagojevich Speaks on Ethics in Politics

Indicted Illinois Governor Blagojevich Speaks on Ethics in Politics

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.According to The Daily Northwestern newspaper, former Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich will speak at the university at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2. The event is titled “Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod [Read More]

Who Need Marijuana When K2 is Legal in Chicago

Who Need Marijuana When K2 is Legal in Chicago

K2 - Fake Synthetic Marijuana - Blonde and Standard PackagesI can imagine that most drug users are saying to themselves, why risk getting caught with illegal possession of marijuana when K2 is easily and legally available in most Chicago's food and liquor stores. K2, a [Read More]

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon to Resign After Alford plea

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon to Resign After Alford plea

By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo A screen shot from Baltimore's WBAL-TV showing Mayor Sheila Dixon as she fights back tears during her resignation announcement.   Mayor Sheila Dixon"It was with deep regret and sadness that I'm resigning as mayor," Baltimore [Read More]

Should U.S. Execute Foreign Terrorist Without Trial?

Should U.S. Execute Foreign Terrorist Without Trial?

In the wake of failed Nigerian suicide bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempt to bring down a Amsterdam to Detroit plane, should the U.S. execute foreign terrorist without trial? Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc Hide Sites $$('div.d1829').each( function(e) { [Read More]

Heather Ellis and the Bizarre Walmart Incident

Heather Ellis and the Bizarre Walmart Incident

By Charles S. Mombo Heather Ellis and Family Photos Credit: Corey NolesCNN News reported last night that Heather Ellis, a 24 year-old African American Xavier University graduate could face fifteen years behind bars for assaulting police officers and resisting arrest after [Read More]

Chicago Actor Tanner Faces Prison for Stolen SSN’s

Chicago Actor Tanner Faces Prison for Stolen SSN’s

Chicago born actor, Antow Tanner, 34 year-oldChicago born actor, Antow Tanner, 34 year-old, pleaded guilty yesterday in a Brooklyn court to selling more than a dozen social security numbers for $10,000. According to court documents, he told the judge that he was a middleman [Read More]

Dr. Conrad Murray – I have faith the truth will prevail

Dr. Conrad Murray –  I have faith the truth will prevail

Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of Michael Jackson released a video on YouTube yesterday telling his friends and supporters, "Please don’t worry. … I will be fine," Murray says in a one-minute YouTube clip that went live Tuesday. "I told [Read More]

Rapper Corey Miller aka C-Murder Guilty of Murder

Rapper Corey Miller aka C-Murder Guilty of Murder

Corey MillerRapper Corey Miller, 38 year-old, also known as C-Murder was found guilty on Tuesday of second-degree murder for the shooting a fan, 16 year old, Steve Thomas, during a nightclub fight in 2002. Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc Hide Sites $$('div.d1519').each( [Read More]

California Outlaws the Display of Noose

California Outlaws the Display of Noose

California's Bill Number: AB 412 Outlaws the Display of Noose Approved by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on August 5, 2009 and filed with the California Secretary of State on August 6, 2009, Bill Number: AB 412 has now become a law. Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc Hide Sites [Read More]

Chris Brown – What I did was unacceptable please forgive me

Chris Brown – What I did was unacceptable please forgive me

In a two minute video posted on his website, Chris Brown is publicly speaking up for the first time to say he is sorry for assaulting Rihanna earlier this year. Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc Hide Sites $$('div.d1417').each( function(e) { [Read More]

Rapper T.I. new address Forrest City, Arkansas 72335

Rapper T.I. new address Forrest City, Arkansas 72335

T. I. mug shotRapper Clifford Harris, Jr. popularly known as T.I. is expected to have a change of address by midday Tuesday, May 26, 2009. His new address will be in Forrest City, Arkansas, Zip Code 72335 at a minimum security prison. Just in case you plan on calling him, [Read More]

Is Familycide the White Men Solution to Hardship?

Is Familycide the White Men Solution to Hardship?

If you don’t know what familycide is, do not feel bad because few months ago, I had not heard of it or knew what it meant.   The word familycide is a combination of the words family and suicide. If I was given the task to define the word for Webster Dictionary, I [Read More]

T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the Rapper Goes to Jail

T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the Rapper Goes to Jail

Rapper T.I. aka Clifford Harris heads to prsion in May. Photo: Bazemore/APT.I., real name is Clifford Harris, the Grammy-award winning artist was sentenced Friday in Atlanta to one year and one day behind bars on federal gun charges.   Two years ago, he was arrested [Read More]

Chicago School bans visiting fans from sport events

Chicago School bans visiting fans from sport events

The Public League of the Chicago Public School (CPS) announced that it is taking striking and necessary actions by banning fans of visiting teams from attending sports events. This dramatic measure is to curb a rash of violence that has erupted at CPS basketball games. [Read More]

Son of Former Liberian Prez Taylor sentenced

Son of Former Liberian Prez Taylor sentenced

By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo A sketch of Charles Chuckie Taylor in courtCharles "Chuckie" Taylor, 31-year-old, U.S.-born citizen and the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor Sr. was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for charges including torture and [Read More]

FBI Arrest Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford

FBI Arrest Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford

-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo  Mayor Larry LangfordBIRMINGHAM, Alabama – FBI spokesman Paul Daymond, announced today that Mayor Larry Langford, 60-year-old, was arrested and taken into custody [Read More]

Detroit’s ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gets 4 months

Detroit’s ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gets 4 months

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick & Christine BeattyWayne County Circuit Judge David Groner ordered Detroit’s ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to prison for 4 months. The sentence was announced nine months after a newspaper story was published about text messages that ignited a [Read More]

Duke Rape Accuser’s Questionable Last Dance

Duke Rape Accuser’s Questionable Last Dance

Crystal Gayle MangumSince three former Duke Lacrosse players; David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, were declared innocent of rape and assault charges, the alleged victim in the highly publicized Duke Lacrosse case, Crystal Gayle Mangum, has remained out of [Read More]

Rapper Da Brat gets three years for assault

Rapper Da Brat gets three years for assault

Da BratDa Brat was assigned a new zip code, Dekalb County Prison, for three years on Friday for assault. The recordings artist was sentenced to three years in Dekalb County prison for hitting a hostess in the head with a rum bottle during an altercation at a suburban [Read More]

Sharon Brown versus Victoria Osteen in Houston’s court

Sharon Brown versus Victoria Osteen in Houston’s court

Flight attendant Sharon BrownVictoria Osteen, the wife of TV evangelist and mega-church pastor Joel Osteen was in a Houston, Texas court on Friday regarding a lawsuit brought against her by Sharon Brown. Brown, a Continental Airlines flight attendant is accusing Victoria [Read More]

Donaghy: I brought shame on myself and family

Donaghy: I brought shame on myself and family

Folding his arms but showing no other emotion, the 41-year-old Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy apologized to the court by saying "I brought shame on myself and my family," during his sentencing today in Brooklyn federal court.  Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty in [Read More]

Bush gives the OK to execute Black Army Private

Bush gives the OK to execute Black Army Private

Ronald A. Gray, 42President Bush on Monday approved the execution of Ronald A. Gray, 42, a former army cook and an Army private. Ronald A. Gray is an African American. President George W. Bush will be the first president in over a half-century to affirmed a death sentence [Read More]

Bush pardons himself against possible war crime

Bush pardons himself against possible war crime

President George W. Bush U.S. President George W. Bush has given himself and members of his administration immunity against possible war crimes. Why would George W. Bush grant himself immunity if he did not do any thing wrong, one might ask? Well, the American-led [Read More]

Is the Crack Law Racially Bias?

Is the Crack Law Racially Bias?

By: http://www.chocolatecity.cc/blog   Smoking CrackOn December 09, 2007, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that judges can impose shorter prison terms for crack cocaine possession  below the current recommended term of the 100:1 (cocaine powder versus crack cocaine) [Read More]

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City Colleges of Chicago needs a paradigm shift from good to great

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T.I and wife Tiny arrested for an alleged drug possession

T.I and wife Tiny arrested for an alleged drug possession

T.I and his wife Tameka Dianne Cottle also known as Tiny were arrested late Wednesday during a traffic stop.Police in [Read More]

Chicago Gang Leaders to hold Press Conference warns Police

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Chicago gang leaders are holding the conference to publicly accuse the Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis of harassment and [Read More]

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