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Snoop Dogg busted with marijuana cigarettes by Police Snoop Dog

Snoop Dogg busted with marijuana cigarettes by Police Snoop Dog

marijuana,cigarettes CNN is reporting that Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus was busted with three prescription bottles filled with marijuana cigarettes after a police dog searched his tour bus. Snoop who is an outspoken advocate of marijuana is known to have a [Read More]

An Interview with Jeff Fort, Leader of the El Rukn, regarding Chicago Bears Sam Hurd

An Interview with Jeff Fort, Leader of the El Rukn, regarding Chicago Bears Sam Hurd

By: Charles S. Mombo An Interview with Jeff Fort, leader of the El Rukn, regarding Chicago Bears Sam Hurd Since the announcement of the arrest of 26-year-old, Chicago Bear’s wide receiver, Sam Hurd, on allege drug-dealing charges, I am trying to wrap my brain around [Read More]

Coach Lovie is Livid over Bears’ Wide Receiver Sam Hurd Drug-dealing Arrest

Coach Lovie is Livid over Bears’ Wide Receiver Sam Hurd Drug-dealing Arrest

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass, #FlashMobB2C, #SeeMombo Coach Lovie is Livid over Bears’ Wide Receiver Sam Hurd Drug-dealing Arrest Chicago Bear’s coach Lovie Smith is angry, disappointed and total surprise over the arrest of the team’s Wide Receiver, Sam [Read More]

Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder of LRG hip-hop clothing found dead

Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder of LRG hip-hop clothing found dead

Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder of LRG hip-hop clothing found dead According to Orange County police, 34-year-old, Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder of Lifted Research Group (LRG) was found dead in his Laguna Beach home. The street clothing entrepreneur and his business partner, Robert [Read More]

Bobbi Kristina Brown, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown daughter fact-check

Bobbi Kristina Brown, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown daughter fact-check

Bobbi Kristina Brown Contrary to rumors being reported in the blogosphere, Bobbi Kristina Brown, the 18-year-old daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston was not arrested during an apparent boyfriend/ girlfriend altercation in Rockwell, Georgia. Chocolate City fact-check [Read More]

D’Angelo pleaded guilty to $40 oral sex to undercover officer

D’Angelo pleaded guilty to $40 oral sex to undercover officer

R&B singer D'Angelo, also known as Michael Archer, has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for trying to pay for oral sex to an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute. The Associated Press is reporting that 37 year-old R&B singer D'Angelo, also known [Read More]

The blood of Gay Rights Activist David Kato is on Uganda’s hands

The blood of Gay Rights Activist David Kato is on Uganda’s hands

by: Charles Mombo Twitter @charlessmombo HASHTAG #burnedbrass Uganda's Rolling Stone newspaper published the photographs of several people it said were gay next to a headline reading "Hang them" David Kato, a prominent Ugandan gay rights campaigner has died after [Read More]

Is Chicago trying to run the police chief out of town?

Is Chicago trying to run the police chief out of town?

If it ever existed, the “City of the big shoulders” love for its Police Superintendent Jody Weis seems to be fading at an accelerated rate.If it ever existed, the “City of the big shoulders” love for its Police Superintendent Jody Weis seems to be fading at [Read More]

Arizona SB1070 gets a double-spiked dagger in the heart

Arizona SB1070 gets a double-spiked dagger in the heart

  Opponents of Arizona's SB 1070Judge Susan Bolton, who heard arguments this week on the first of the Arizona lawsuits, today granted a partial injunction against Arizona's SB 1070. From every indication, Judge Bolton's decision has driven a double-spiked [Read More]

LeBron James Stolen No. 23 Pendant Resurfaced on Ebay

LeBron James Stolen No. 23 Pendant Resurfaced on Ebay

LeBron James Stolen No. 23 Cleveland Cavaliers Jersey Pendant Resurfaces on EbayIn this country been in possession of property obtained by crime or knowing that the property was stolen is usually prosecuted as a misdemeanor or felony, depending on the value of the stolen [Read More]

Rapper Fat Joe Accused of Sexual Assault

Rapper Fat Joe Accused of Sexual Assault

  Madison, Wisconsin Police Department detained Rapper Fat Joe yesterday for questioning after a 33 year-old woman filed charges of sexual assault. Fat Joe, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena , and his associates were released after they were questioned by Madison [Read More]

Kanye and Suge Knight – Is a Deadly Beef Brewing?

Kanye and Suge Knight – Is a Deadly Beef Brewing?

In 2005, 33 year-old Kanye West , hosted a party in celebration of the MTV Video Music Awards at the Shore Club in Miami. Among his invited celebrity guests was Marion Knight, 45 year-old, also known as Suge Knight. According to court papers, during the party, a lone gunman [Read More]

Seattle Cop punches Black woman for jaywalking

Seattle Cop punches Black woman for jaywalking

  A Black or African-American female was punched in the face today by a White Seattle Police Officer for attempting to jaywalk on Martin Luther King Drive. Read the NY Daily News version of the story and watch the video from a passerby. Read the Seattle's Police [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]

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]

What is Wrong With This Damn Katt?

What is Wrong With This Damn Katt?

Comedian Katt WilliamsOn November 8th, the Comedian Katt Williams was arrested on charges of allegedly stealing $3,555 in jewelry and collectible coins. After posting $41,150 bond in Coweta County, Georgia, he was released. On November 10th, Williams was reportedly [Read More]

President Obama invites Gates and Crowley for beer

President Obama invites Gates and Crowley for beer

President Obama invites Gates and Crowley to White House for beerHad I known President Barack Obama personally, I would have call him yesterday and suggested that he invite Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley to the White House to discuss the arrest issue that [Read More]

Iran news blackout – a weapon of suppressors?

Iran news blackout – a weapon of suppressors?

What are your views regarding the media blackout or censorship imposed by the government of Iran against new agencies. What are your views about the election results? Do you think the Obama’s factor played a part in the demonstration? Are you in Iran and do you care [Read More]

Def Jam Shakir Stewart Died of an Apparent Suicide

Def Jam Shakir Stewart Died of an Apparent Suicide

Shakir Stewart, 34-year-old executive vice president of Def Jam Recordings died on Saturday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound near Atlanta, police said Sunday.  Stewart was found about 4 p.m. Saturday in the bathroom of his house on Lindsey Drive in Marietta, [Read More]

Executors of Sean Bell Not Guilty

Executors of Sean Bell Not Guilty

The scene unfolded outside the courthouse Friday as three police officers were cleared of all charges in the 2006 shooting of Bell, who died in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day. On the dawn of his wedding day, Bell, 23, was killed by four rounds while leaving his [Read More]

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30-years correspondence between Peyton Skipwith, a former slave to Liberia and his master, John Hartwell Cocke

30-years correspondence between Peyton Skipwith, a former slave to Liberia and his master, John Hartwell Cocke

By: Charles S. Mombo John Hartwell Cocke, a slave master, corresponded with Peyton Skipwith, a slave to in Liberia for [Read More]

President Obama’s Impressive “Accommodation”- Catholic Church Contraceptive Fiasco

President Obama’s Impressive “Accommodation”- Catholic Church Contraceptive Fiasco

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass   President Obama’s brilliant political move, which he called an [Read More]

Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly misinterpreted as gang symbols?

Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly misinterpreted as gang symbols?

By:  Charles S. Mombo Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly [Read More]

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