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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]

Joe Sullivan – Life in Prison for 13-year-old Kinky Hair Colored Boy for allegedly raping a 72-year-old White Woman.

Joe Sullivan – Life in Prison for 13-year-old Kinky Hair Colored Boy for allegedly raping a 72-year-old White Woman.

By: Charles S. Mombo Joe Harris Sullivan, now 35-year-old, is still serving a life term for a non-homicide crime committed, since 13-year-old, for raping a 72-year-old elderly white woman. Image Source:Agence France-Presse/Getty Images What happened to a 72-year-old elderly [Read More]

Rapper T.I. arrested again and imprisoned in Atlanta

Rapper T.I. arrested again and imprisoned in Atlanta

Rapper T.I. was released on Wednesday, August 31 from the Forrest City prison in Arkansas but was re-arrested and returned to prison in Atlanta on Thursday, September 1. Rapper T.I. was released on Wednesday, August 31 from the Forrest City prison in Arkansas but was [Read More]

Rapper T.I. released from prison AGAIN – but for how long?

Rapper T.I. released from prison AGAIN – but for how long?

It is our hope that, T.I., the talented Grammy-winning rapper and actor also known as Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. continues to share his gift and talents, uninterrupted, with his fans worldwide. Rapper T.I. was released from prison again on Wednesday. Considering his [Read More]

Buju Banton Jamaican Reggae singer gets 10 years in prison for cocaine offenses

Buju Banton Jamaican Reggae singer gets 10 years in prison for cocaine offenses

Baju Banton was convicted in Tampa, Florida on felony charges for cocaine related charges. A jury in Tampa, Florida today found one of the most popular musicians in Jamaican's history guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, and using a [Read More]

Ja Rule heads to prison and resolves beef with 50 Cent

Ja Rule heads to prison and resolves beef with 50 Cent

Ja RuleIn a “The Life Files” released YouTube interview, Ja Rule, 35-year-old, also known as Jeffrey Atkins, talks about his beef with 50 Cent. With a glass of wine in his hand and appearing to have drunk little over 1/3 of a the 750ML bottle of Santa Margherita [Read More]

Is Sally Kern, Oklahoma Republican state Representative, a racist and a homophobic?

Is Sally Kern, Oklahoma Republican state Representative, a racist and a homophobic?

Oklahoma state Republican Representative Sally Kern According to Oklahoma state Republican Representative Sally Kern: blacks are in prison because color didn’t study hard. Sally, 65-year-old, is no stranger to making racist and homophobic remarks; but her latest [Read More]

Rapper Tru Life aka Roberto Rosado Sentenced to 8 years

Rapper Tru Life aka Roberto Rosado Sentenced to 8 years

Rapper Tru Life aka Roberto Rosado Sentenced to 8 years in prison for gang assault and weapons possession charges.A New York judge Wednesday sentenced Rapper Tru Life, also known as Roberto Guzman Rosado, Jr., to 8 years behind bars for gang assault and weapons possession [Read More]

Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott too fat for kidney transplant

Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott too fat for kidney transplant

Jamie Scott must lose more than 100 pounds. Doctors for Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott are saying that the sisters are too fat to undergo kidney transplant; and they must lose their respective weight before they are considered to be tested for compatibility. Jamie Scott must [Read More]

Munyaradzi Gwisai arrested for treason in Zimbabwe

Munyaradzi Gwisai arrested for treason in Zimbabwe

According to the website - Alliance of Professional Africans: Munyaradzi Gwisai, a Zimbabwean political activist, a former member of Zimbabwe's opposition MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) and a coordinator of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) was [Read More]

Gov. Haley Barbour suspends the sentences of Jamie and Gladys Scott

Gov. Haley Barbour suspends the sentences of Jamie and Gladys Scott

Our Twitter name: @burnedbrass Our Twitter hashtag: #burnedbrass Join the conversation on FACEBOOK Thanks to Choke Lumumba, the attorney for the Scott sisters; the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People); Michael Baisden of “The Michael [Read More]

Is Michael Vick the best NFL player today

Is Michael Vick the best NFL player today

Is Michael Vick the best NFL player today? Washington Redskins and 13 years veteran London Fletcher seems to answer this question by saying, "If he's not ," "I don't know who is." With Vick's impressive individual performances yesterday, he [Read More]

Dutch forensic experts exams bone suspected to be Natalee Holloway

Dutch forensic experts exams bone suspected to be Natalee Holloway

Natalee HollowayDe Telegraaf, a Dutch newspaper, reporting that Dutch forensic experts are examining bone material found on an Aruban beach to determine whether it belonged to missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. The newspaper, quoted by Dutch News, says the bone is a [Read More]

T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the rapper heads to jail AGAIN

T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the rapper heads to jail AGAIN

T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the rapper heads to jail AGAIN on November 1.T.I. also known as Clifford Harris is reportedly preparing mentally to voluntarily surrender to authorities on Monday, November 1, 2010 to start serving his 11 months jail term; he is also reported to [Read More]

Lil Wayne Releases Album as he celebrates Birthday in Prison

Lil Wayne Releases Album as he celebrates Birthday in Prison

Lil Wayne releases album as he celebrates his 28th birthday in prisonUnlike previous birthdays, Dwayne Carter, also known as Lil’ Wayne will not be lavishly celebrating his 28th birthday today, September 27.  He will instead be releasing a new album called I am [Read More]

Jamie and Gladys Scott armed robbery and life sentence revisited

Jamie and Gladys Scott armed robbery and life sentence revisited

Article Sponsored by SEO and Social Media Marketing Consultants   Jamie Scott who is now 38 year-old is reportedly gravely ill with kidney failure. She was a mother at the time of the crime..I first heard about Jamie Scott and her sister Gladys Scott about five years [Read More]

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]

Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates

Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates

Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by InmatesIn a “Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates” released by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the Office of Justice Programs the following were [Read More]

Quanis Phillips Shot at Michael Vick Birthday Party

Quanis Phillips Shot at Michael Vick Birthday Party

The Police Department of Virginia Beach, Virginia is reporting that a birthday party being held for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick at a local nightclub,Guadalajara on 4611 Columbus Street, broke out into a gunfight around 2:15 a.m. On last Friday. Several news [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]

Marion Jones Goes to the Court After Track and Field

Marion Jones Goes to the Court After Track and Field

The talented Marion Jones gets a second change at another professional sportI am not sure who recorded it, but there is a song out there that says, “No you can't keep a good man down, no.” Some thought that after losing five Olympic medals for using [Read More]

Lil Wayne Diamonds on Teeth Postponed His Jail Time

Lil Wayne Diamonds on Teeth Postponed His Jail Time

Lil Wayne Diamond Teeth Postponed His Jail Time Today, Lil Wayne was expected to begin serving his one-year sentence at Rikers Island Prison on weapons-possession charge, but his sentencing was postponed until March 2, to take care of some dental related issues. Rikers [Read More]

Ex-congressman William J. Jefferson Gets 13 Years

Ex-congressman William J. Jefferson Gets 13 Years

Ex-congressman Jefferson and family Photo source: Michael DeMocker / The Times-PicayuneTo say it’s a sad day for us at Chocolate City is an understatement. We have always held the ex-congressman in very high esteem and regarded him as a true champion in the struggle [Read More]

Lil Wayne to have an address change for criminal gun possession

Lil Wayne to have an address change for criminal gun possession

Grammy Award-winning artist Dwayne Carter, also known as Lil Wayne is expected to serve a year in prison for gun possession.       Documents obtained from the Manhattan District Attorney's office indicated the hip-hop artist pleaded guilty on Thursday to [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]

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. SeeMombo.com Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc [Read More]

Should Michael Vick be reinstated into the NFL?

Should Michael Vick be reinstated into the NFL?

Vick's federal dogfighting sentence ended on Monday, freeing him to lobby for a return to playing football.eve Helber)On Monday, former Atlantic Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was released from federal custody. Vick served 23-months for operating an illegal dogfighting [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]

Detroit’s Kwame Kilpartick released from prison

Detroit’s Kwame Kilpartick released from prison

At 12:35 a.m. Tuesday morning, Detroit‘s former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, 38-year-old, strolled out of the Wayne County Jail. He said nothing to reporters as he was whisked into a Chevy Suburban. The former mayor spent 99 days in an isolated cell. "He’s [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]

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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Dr. Robert M. Franklin to Transition as President of Morehouse College [UPDATED]

Dr. Robert M. Franklin to Transition as President of Morehouse College [UPDATED]

By: Charles Mombo After an accomplished five-year term as president of Morehouse College, Robert M. Franklin ’75 has [Read More]

Bishop Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church – Have They Lost Their Everlasting Minds?

Bishop Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church – Have They Lost Their Everlasting Minds?

By: Charles Mombo King Bishop Eddie Long being wrapped in a Torah scroll and being promoted from a commoner to a King. [Read More]

Tracy Morgan, It’s no Joke, Your Mama Calling You!

Tracy Morgan, It’s no Joke, Your Mama Calling You!

Tracy Morgan's mother says she struggled for years to provide the comedian with everything he needed as a child, but [Read More]

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