President Obama is choosing experience over youth in his NCAA bracket, picking North Carolina to win the men’s basketball tournament in a championship matchup with Kentucky. “I’m just a sucker for the Tar Heels, what can I tell you?” Obama told ESPN’s Andy Katz during his traditional selection special on ESPN (see video below). The sports network […]

A North Carolina court reportedly upheld a 2010 ruling against Los Angeles rapper, The Game yesterday (Feb. 21), requiring him to pay out $5 million in compensatory damages to five Greensboro, N.C. police officers. According to the suit, Game, born Jayceon Taylor, produced and distributed a DVD entitled ‘Stop Snitchin’ Stop Lyin‘,’ which contained footage from […]

Two men suspected of shooting Waka Flocka’s tour bus on Wednesday afternoon (February 16) in Charlotte, North Carolina, are still in the run. Charlotte, NC police have stated that a high speed chase that took place in the city last night (February 17)was related to the shooting of Waka Flocka Flame’s tour bus. According to […]

North Carolina– The mother of a missing 17-year-old honor student from North Carolina said she was stunned to learn that “20 different guys” passed through the home where the girl was staying and that the girl was allowed to drink alcohol while visiting family in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, MD — The FBI is now in on the search to find a missing teen from our state. Phylicia Barnes was reported missing last week while she was in Baltimore to visit family. Barnes, who is from Monroe, North Carolina, left the apartment she was staying at on December 28 to get something to […]

General Norman Johnson, the lead singer for Chairmen Of The Board has died at 67, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. General Norman Johnson, lead singer of the soul vocal trio Chairmen of the Board, died Wednesday at age 67. His group was best known for the song “Give Me Just a Little More Time,” a […]

Well; you'll have to read the full story, but this is something that I didn't expect from the Queen B.

People Magazine is reporting that Fantasia has admitted that her recent overdose was a suicide attempt. “I didn’t have any fight in me. I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted out,” the American Idol winner, 26, tells VH1 in a new Behind the Music interview, airing 9 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday, the same day her […]

Call it what you want, but I think the girl has lost it. Not only is she moving in with this guy, but now they're going to start a reality series together????

Street poet/ activist, Monte Smith, has been noted for his fiery prose against racial & political injustice everywhere. He’s not only been co-signed by political prisoner Mumia-Abu-Jamal, but heralded by the likes of Bruce George (Co producer of HBO’S “Def Poetry Jam’), Sam Greenlee author of The Spook Who Sat By The Door, and even […]

Carolina rapper Caktuz..?13 has been dropping a catalog full of music and videos over the past year. From his  sophomore release, GOD*Z PORNO, early this year, to his free mixtape series. Here’s his latest video for the single “Luvyn U” from GOD*Z PORNO. MORE FROM CAKTUZ..?13