USDA2DAY Staff's Blog – October 2008 Archive (207)

PACMAN JONES ENTERS REHAB: Troubled cornerback goes in for alcohol treatment following suspension by NFL.

*Suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones entered an alcohol treatment facility "in another part of the country," team owner Jerry Jones told The Associated Press on Monday.

"It's totally done through and by the NFL," he said.

The league suspended Jones for at least four games last Tuesday for violating its personal conduct policy. Six weeks after being reinstated from a 17-month suspension because of repeated legal… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 21, 2008 at 2:29pm — 12 Comments

JUELZ SANTANA TALKS WITH 107.9 IN ATLANTA ABOUT HIS NEW DEAL AND ALBUM WITH LIL WAYNE " I CANT FEEL MY FACE"

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XXL: CHECK OUT THE (3) COVERS FOR XXL’S DEC. ISSUE (#109)

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Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 20, 2008 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

2008 BET HIP HOP AWARDS - BLACK CARPET & SHOW

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Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 20, 2008 at 12:00pm — 19 Comments

Don Cannon On KarmaloopTV

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Opa-locka rapper killed in drive-by shooting

An Opa-locka rapper known as Toro was shot dead in a drive-by shooting early Saturday in North Miami-Dade.

Derek Johnson, 23, was with another man inside their car on Northwest 119th Street and Sixth Avenue about 4 a.m. when a silver sedan passed by.

From inside the sedan, Miami-Dade police say, bullets sprayed the two, killing Johnson and leaving… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 20, 2008 at 11:30am — 18 Comments

DOLEMITE IS DEAD: We remember legendary funnyman Rudy Ray Moore.

*EUR has learned that after an extended illness, seminal comedian Rudy Ray Moore, better known as Dolemite, has died in Akron, Ohio. He was 81.

EUR was initially informed of the news by comedienne Luenell, a friend of the family.

Moore, whose actual name was Rudolph Frank Moore, passed away Sunday from complications of diabetes, his only child and daughter, Yvette "Rusty" Wesson, told us.

According to Wikipedia, Moore is… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 20, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Either Your Slinging Crack Rock or You Got a Wicked Jumpshot: Sports, Politics, and Economic Opportunity in the 21st Century’s Racial Reality

“Cash Rules Everything Around Me” is the reality. Does politics fit inside of it?

Forty years ago this month, the 1968 Olympic Games was defined by the political statement of two Black athletes. With Black fist raised high, and an ode to the Black Power movement displayed, Tommie Smith and John Carlos made one of the most profound political statements ever seen at an international sporting event.

The beauty and the significance… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 20, 2008 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Louis Vuitton Puts A Stop To The, “Louie Rag,” Being Released

We did it, and it came out hot,” Tip said of the video. “Louis [Vuitton] and Gucci started trippin’ about it. They were saying we were infringing, in one way or another. They weren’t happy about it. They didn’t want it to come out. But it’s hot, though.”

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Black U.S. Marshals File Discrimination Lawsuit Lawsuit: Managers Called Them "Lazy" And Belittled Them

Two hundred former and present U.S. Marshal Service employees filed a lawsuit last week in federal court alleging that they were discriminated against and passed over for promotions because they were black.

The lawsuit in U.S. District Court accuses the federal law enforcement agency of a "good old boys network" that allegedly groomed whites for leadership positions while passing up and reprimanding blacks for "trivial mistakes."

"This… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 20, 2008 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Racist Man From Ohio "Mike Lunsdord" Hangs Obama From Noose In Tree! "I Dont Want An African American Running The Country"

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Police Officers Targeting Black Students?: Girl Get Thrown TO The Ground & Handcuffed At A Hickman High School Fight!

Lorenzo reports "Students claim that the officer that broke it up, targeted black students.". Missourian News reports "COLUMBIA — The Columbia Police Department's Professional Standards Unit is investigating a fight that occurred at Hickman High School last Wednesday, according to a news release sent Friday evening. MaGruder also said Thrower had been taken to the hospital for neck and back problems Wednesday night. She did not attend school Thursday or Friday due to… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 18, 2008 at 1:16pm — 18 Comments

Dead robber's mom: Shooting not right WAUKEGAN | Thief killed as he tried to get away on bicycle

Brandon Starks' mother tearfully condemned the shooting that took his life after he robbed a Waukegan grocery store, questioning why the store clerk who shot him outside the business didn't instead call police.

"If you had time to run out of the store, you had time to call the police," Veda Starks said Wednesday, standing outside the family's North Chicago home. The 20-year-old Starks -- a convicted burglar paroled from prison less than a… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 18, 2008 at 1:11pm — 6 Comments

Woman's body cremated in culvert, officials say

The daughter and a grandson of an 84-year-old woman who died at a Northern California farmhouse cremated her on an improvised barbecue and fashioned a necklace with a chunk of the woman's skull, authorities in rural Tehama County said Wednesday.

Kathleen Theresa Allmond, 50, and her son, Tony Ray, 30, were jailed on suspicion of elder abuse and embezzlement. The pair allegedly cashed… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 18, 2008 at 1:09pm — 6 Comments

Killer Gets Life Sentence For 2007 Murder

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Emotion spilled over those in court on Thursday after Antonio Simmons, the man convicted in a 2007 murder, was sentenced to life in prison.

Before his punishment was handed down, Simmons begged the judge for the minimum sentence of 25 years for the second-degree murder of 21-year-old James Brigham, saying that he shot Brigham, his girlfriend's estranged husband, in self-defense.…

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Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 18, 2008 at 1:06pm — 2 Comments

I Aint Neva Scared: Man Starts Swinging On Paramedic!

Koco reports "A metro man attacks a paramedic after Britton Road was closed because of an accident.…

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 18, 2008 at 12:04pm — 2 Comments

"Soul Train" Host Popped - Boogie Beatdown

TMZ has learned Don Cornelius of "Soul Train" fame was arrested last night on felony domestic violence.

It went down on Mulholland Drive in L.A. in the early evening. Someone called from Cornelius' home and LAPD responded to a "domestic dispute." After arriving on scene, they arrested 72-year-old Cornelius on charges of felony domestic violence. He was taken to the LAPD jail in Van Nuys where his bail was set at $50,000. He was released at… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on October 18, 2008 at 11:06am — 4 Comments