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From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent, in Cannes entertainment.timesonline.co.uk After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy ...More

Meet Vantayshia a very creative child. Vantayshia loves music and loves to dance. Her favorite music to dance to is Rap or R&B. However, Vantayshia says that she loves all music.."except for Country." In addition to her love of dance and music,Vantayshia expresses her creativity through drawing and coloring. Vantayshia hobbies are to collect posters and stuffed toys (teddy bears). Vantayshia likes to be the boss. The previous school season she ...More

COURTNEY RAVEN MORGAN Case Type: Lost, Injured, Missing DOB: Dec 18, 1993 Sex: Female Missing Date: Sep 2, 2007 Race: Black Age Now: 14 Height: 5'5" (165 cm) Missing City: HALIFAX COUNTY Weight: 140 lbs (64 kg) Missing State : VA Hair Color: Black Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Black Case Number: USVAVA07-591 Circumstances: Courtney was last seen on September 2, 2007 around 1100 hours. She was last seen with her cousin, Alicia (B/F), on a Greyhound bus headed towards Baltimore, Maryland. ...More

Coming off of a huge win in the state of South Carolina, Barack Obama has proven answered the question wether or not if the Black community will get behind his quest for the White House. Now the fun really begins. As I have been repeating on this website numerous of times, he along with his supporters are going to have to move away from using the 'Mr. Smith Goes to ...More

The one thing I always try to always remember as the author of this site is that not everybody is like me. Let me give you one example. A while ago I had decided on a template on this site that used a dark brown background with white text. Personally I liked the look, but the feedback from numbers of my readers said otherwise. Right now, I am trying to ...More

Taken from the site gp.org. "No economic system is sustainable unless it accommodates the ecosystems on which it depends. Our current system - based on the notion of perpetual economic expansion on a finite planet - is seriously flawed. We urgently need to apply human ingenuity to the goal of using far less from nature to meet our needs, which is a different goal from exploiting nature and Third World people ...More

February 7-18 in Los Angeles === Also, The San Diego Black Film Festival is also just around the corner (January 31 to February 3). [Link] Other entertainment links: blackfilm.com Black Talent News Check out all the other entertainment links to your right. More

Most of y'all are fam, so you know slapping somebody can sometimes be a good thing ;). A woman in South Carolina speaks her mind on the media coverage and man, I was ready to take my shoe off and throw it at the computer. Commentary: Issues -- not gender or race -- on minds of voters (CNN) -- You can't turn on a 24-hour news channel or your nightly news this ...More

...everytime I went to ol' girl's website, she had that picture of some guy wearing a mullet. ;) I thought she had given up on blogging, but apparently I was wrong. Good! I just happened to go to her site tonight and BAM! I see that she has been quite busy. Congrats Ambra and Andre! Please check 'em out (click on picture) More

This is a 15 min clip of a special report on changing race/class structure in South Africa. Since the release of Nelson Mandela (a moment in history I am so glad I was able see--on TV at least), more and more Black South Africans have been able to pull themselves out of poverty and move up the economic scale. This largely in part due to more Blacks being placed in ...More

Data Errors By RiShawn Biddle spectator.org More than 90 percent of New Jersey's high school freshmen graduate on time. That's according to statistics reported by the state to the public and to the U.S. Department of Education, but it isn't so. At best, just eight in ten freshmen graduate on time and even those projections may too high. Dropouts who get General Educational Development diplomas can also receive regular high school diplomas if ...More

DNC lawsuit reveals black vs. gay rivalry Top party official accused of stirring anti-gay prejudice By KEVIN NAFF & JOSHUA LYNSEN washblade.com A gay man’s lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee has revealed allegations of bitter, behind-the-scenes disputes that appear to pit black DNC officials against gays. In a fiery e-mail exchange obtained this week by the Blade, a senior official with the gay partisan group National Stonewall Democrats denounces a top DNC staffer, Leah ...More

I could stop right here for the rest of the day. INDIANA BLACK EXPO REPORT About 80% of black babies are born to unwed moms Report: These children face life with greater disadvantages. By Tim Evans About eight in 10 black children in Indiana are born to unwed parents -- a start to life that sets them up for problems during adolescence and beyond, according to an Indiana Black Expo report. Indiana's black youths fare significantly ...More