Buffalo, New York entrepreneur and curator, Struggle Mike, releases a new single and accompanying music video for "Nokturnal Riding" featuring Same Dude x JJ Luis x Grenzy x Kev Mac.
Rochester, New York emcee Beloved Rasheed is reaching out to America's young minority kids and trying to put them on a positive path in life via his powerful new song and accompanying music video titled "Troubled Youths."
Indie Producer & Cypher Clique Member James Major (With Production Credits That Include Fabolous, Dyme A Duzin, Mickey Factz & Gary Vee To Name A Few) drops his latest single titled “Element”. This Smooth Yet Mellow Record Takes It To The Essence Of Emotion With Lyrics & Features Sir Michael Rocks Of The Cool Kids, Buffalo MC & TRUST Gang Member Che Noir, Relay Of Cypher Clique & Juan Giovanni.
A monthlong mission in Ohio recently turned up 45 missing children and led to 179 arrests, authorities said.
In an operation dubbed Autumn Hope, the US Marshals Service in Ohio and Virginia tracked the children, including a “high-risk” 15-year-old girl from Cleveland who was linked to suspected human trafficking, authorities said Monday.
Twenty other children were also located as authorities checked on their well-being.
During one of the missing children recoveries, a loaded gun was recovered. A 15-year-old boy had two warrants and is suspected in multiple shootings and a murder, authorities said.
Two other juveniles were found in West Virginia during a traffic stop, leading to the arrest of an adult male who was charged with concealment/removal of a minor child in Jackson County.
Autumn Hope was conducted by the marshals in conjunction with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force, as well as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state and local agencies in Ohio.
“My thanks to all personnel who have stepped up for this operation,” said Peter C. Tobin, US Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio. “These are the same personnel who hunt down violent fugitives every day. I’m incredibly proud of them and pleased that they were able to apply those same skills to finding missing children. I know Operation Autumn Hope has made a difference in a lot of young lives.”
The US Marshals have conducted similar operations before, including in Ohio.
Last month, they said 35 missing children, between the ages of 13 and 18 from the Cuyahoga County area, were located during Operation Safety Net. Just over 20 percent of the found cases were tied to human trafficking.
That same month, the marshals also announced the arrest of 262 suspects, including 141 gang members, and the recovery of five missing children in Oklahoma.
Thirty-nine children were found in Georgia during Operation Not Forgotten in August and eight missing kids were recovered in Indiana in September as part of Operation Homecoming.
The marshals have found missing children in 75 percent of cases the agency has received — and 72 percent of those cases were recovered within a week, officials said.
Since 2005, the agency has recovered more than 2,000 missing kids.
Mac Miller is about to hit the road starting in March on "The Macadelic" world tour. The Pittsburgh mc will be playing 22 dates starting March 27 in Norfolk, Virginia. The trek will wind through Green Bay, Atlanta and Paris, France before winding down in Amsterdam on June 1st.
The Cool Kids and The Come Up are the tour's opening acts.
For more tour information and to purchase tickets visits Mac's official website.
The Macadelic Tour Dates:
03/27/12 Norfolk, VA Norfolk State University 03/28/12 Clemson, SC Clemson University
03/29/12 Radford, VA Radford University
03/31/12 Fairfax, VA George Mason University
04/01/12 Loretto, PA Saint Francis University
04/03/12 State College, PA Penn State University
04/04/12 Ypsilanti, MI Eastern Michigan University
04/05/12 Kalamazoo, MI Western Michigan University
04/10/12 Green Bay, WI University of Wisconsin Green Bay
04/11/12 St. Louis, MO St. Louis University
04/12/12 Bloomington, IN Indiana University
04/14/12 Dayton, OH Wright State University
04/16/12 Charlotte, NC University of North Carolina Charlotte
04/17/12 Atlanta, GA Georgia State University
04/20/12 Orlando, FL University of Central Florida
04/26/12 Baltimore, MD Towson University
04/27/12 Clarion, PA Clarion University
04/29/12 Oneonta, NY SUNY Oneonta
05/18/12 Asbury Park, NJ Bamboozle Festival
05/29/12 Brussels Ancienne Belgique
05/30/12 Paris Le Casino de Paris
06/01/12 Amsterdam Melkweg
FAST FACTS: *Approximately 90 students at Frayser High School are pregnant or have recently given birth
*The startling numbers fall in line with high teen pregnancy rates in the entire Frayser community
*A new initiative to help combat the problem will soon be introduced
About 90 students at a Memphis High School are either pregnant, or have been recently.
The startling news was confirmed by a high ranking city official and comes as the community plans to roll out a new initiative to help combat the problem.
However, one Frayser High School graduate says teen pregnancy is not a new problem for the school.
"When we would come back from summer break, there would be a thousand people pregnant. We were like, what's going on?" joked Alicia Williamson, who graduated from Frayser in 2004.
"There were a whole lot of bellies. You had to watch out so you didn't bump into them. Being 2011, I thought a lot of them would have thought this is not the right way to go, having babies during school time," she added.
The organization, Girls, Inc. teaches girls about preventing pregnancy.
Deborah Hester Harrison, who heads the organization, says Memphis' teen pregnancy rate stands at between 15 and 20 percent, almost twice the national average.
In the Frayser zip code, the rate is about 26 percent. Harrison partly blames the media.
"So much of our society is sexually oriented. As adults we can look at that and it doesn't impact us, but kids are different," Harrison said.
It's why Girls, Inc. offers classes where teenage girls "care for" computerized babies to give them a feel for what teenage parenthood is like.
The organization will also be part of a new initiative tentatively scheduled to be introduced next week.
Video After The Jump1017 Brick Squad loves the kids.Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka came to Southside Jamaica Queens, New York yesterday (August 29) to take part in a charity event, giving back to the community.
The two played hoops, handed out free school supplies and took pictures with the kids there.
Others at the event included French Montana, Lethal Lipps, Grafh, Frenchie, Debra Antney Wooh Da Kid and Rah Diggs.
Good to see an event like this. These dudes deserve a lot of credit for taking time out to show the kids how to be a positive role model.
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A Georgia history teacher is in hot water after allowing several students to wear KKK robes to school for a play.
Catherine Ariemma, who teaches at Lumpkin County High School was suspended by the school after several African American students and one parent complained.
It's understandable that students would be upset. They were eating lunch when the students wearing KKK robes strolled through the cafeteria. None of the students at lunch had any idea the outfits were for a school play.
Ariemma says she made the mistake of letting her students walk through the cafeteria because she wasn't thinking. Her class has first period lunch. Another teacher confronted her afterwards.
"That's when I heard there were a couple of students who were upset," Ariemma said.
School Superintendent Dewey Maye told the Associated Press. "This stuff happened in history, Do you ignore it? No. But you certainly don't walk the hallway in the garb."
Student Cody Rider told WSB-TV he was ready to take care of the situation himself if need be.
"I was sitting in the lunchroom and my little cousin taps me on the shoulder -- he's also African-American -- and he was scared," he said. "There was fear in his eyes. I was like, 'What is it? I looked up and they just walked through the lunchroom in white sheets. So, I mean me, I got mad and stood up and I tried to go handle it."
Ariemma, who has taught at the school for six years, feels like she made a poor decision, but would accept her fate if she is fired.
"I am a good teacher, I speak the truth, I tell the truth. I suppose if some decides it's the end, it's the end."
It probably is the end and with good reason in my opinion.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 2, 2009 at 12:30pm
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The Black Eyed Peas are riding high after breaking the Billboard record for longest act on the top 100 with their successful singles, “I Gotta Feeling” and “Boom Boom Pow.” Unfortunately for the chart topping group, someone's stepped up to shoot them down. A former employee on the Peas' concert tour is suing the band for an undisclosed amount of damages. Winter Sumpter claims that she was severely injured during band's 2007 “Black Blue & You” Tour. During the band's Burbank, California performance, Sumpter says she fell through a flight of stairs when “one of the treads became detached.”
In her court claim she says she suffered “severe and permanent injuries” and was left with “mental, physical, nervous pain and suffering.” Of course she's pointing the finger at the Peas for her clumsiness but she's not stopping there. She is also asking for a handout from their tour manager, and other concert officials. You know what they say; more money, more problems.
Despite the shady lawsuit, the Peas can crown themselves victorious overseas after a ban on one of their concerts was lifted. The band made headlines after Malaysian officials banned Muslim citizens from attending their upcoming concert in the country. Now however, that ban has been lifted and all citizens of Malaysia are free to attend at their will. The ban was put in place because the concert is sponsored by the Irish beer company, Guinness. Muslims are denounced from using alcohol as part of their Islamic law. Muslim officials have yet to provide a reason why the ban was lifted but they are imposing strict rules. Guinness will not be allowed to sell their product at the concert or use its logo for publicity. The concert is part of the beer company's 250th anniversary.
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