Featured Blog Posts – April 2015 Archive (92)

BET Awards: Janet Jackson Will Receive The 1st Ever Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award

Two weeks ago Janet Jackson announced via her website and Instagram page that she had to call a halt to…

Israeli police Wednesday released shocking security video of a woman setting a gasoline pump on fire in Jerusalem — allegedly because a man refused to give her a cigarette.

Amazingly, no one was hurt, police said.

The woman was arrested after the incident Tuesday and denied having set the blaze intentionally, Micky Rosenfeld, foreign spokesman for Israel's police…

Like most women, Cassandra Bankson has two eyes, two ears, two arms and two legs.

Bankson, 22, also has two vaginas, two wombs and two cervixes, a fact she discovered last year when she went to see a doctor about nagging back pain.

“When we got the test results back the doctor said I only had one kidney and flippantly added that I have two vaginas -- as she suspected,"…

Tina Knowles got married to her actor fiance Richard Lawson earlier this month and Jay Z, Beyonce, Blue Ivy and other family members were in attendance.

The lavish wedding took place on a private yacht in Newport Beach, CA. Beyonce shared some of the photos on her website this week.

A bunch of other celebrities were also in attendance including Samuel L. Jackson, Solange…

• Fight took place Sunday outside Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, Long Island 
• Victim suffered injuries to her face but her attacker hasn't been arrested
• During the brawl, attacker's husband was overheard encouraging her to 'bust' victim's…

UFC Champion Jon 'Bones' Jones Is A Suspect In Albuquerque Hit & Run Involving Pregnant Woman *UPDATE* Jones Stripped Of Title, Suspended By UFC. Cut By Reebok (Video)

Jon "Bones" Jones is officially back in the UFC after being reinstated on Friday, October 23.…

Bumble Bee Foods and two employees were charged Monday by Los Angeles prosecutors with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna. Jose Melena was performing maintenance in a 35-foot-long oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant in October 2012 when co-workers loaded it with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and turned it on.

Temperatures…

(VIDEO) Furious mother catches her masked son preparing to join Baltimore protests and smacks him upside the head in front of his rioting pals and chases him home

• Toya Graham, a single mother-of-six, said she 'just lost it' when she saw her 16-year-old son Michael at Monday's riots carrying a rock
• She said: 'I recognized those baggy sweatpants and we made eye contact. I was…

Police investigate the crime scene Flatbush Ave. near Foster Ave. in Brooklyn where cop sources and witnesses said six people were shot Monday night.

A Brooklyn funeral took a lethal turn Monday when a shootout erupted outside the service, leaving six people wounded -- two mortally, authorities said.

More than 40 people were leaving a service…

Meet the man who was born with no penis

Andrew Wardle, 40, from Greater Manchester has bedded over 100 women despite the fact that Andrew Wardle doesn't have a penis.

Andrew has revealed all about his life in TLC's The Man With No Penis which sees him confess his life-long secret to friends and family - including his unsuspecting, long-term girlfriend, Fedra - and…

A 15-year-old who, police said, brutalized, sexually assaulted and robbed a woman on a Chicago train was turned into police by his mom, after she recognized surveillance photos released by authorities.

Deshawn Isabelle is charged as an adult with robbery and sexual assault, according to Chicago ABC affiliate WLS-TV.

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• Three Americans who were on Mount Everest at the time have been confirmed dead  
• Avalanches were triggered by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that ripped through Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh
• Up to 3,300 people have died in the disaster across the Himalayas with scores still unaccounted for in the…

As an associate professor and a director for Temple University, Ama Mazama has seen the amount of racism that black youth have to suffer through in school. She states that this is one of the biggest reasons that more black children are being home-schooled as opposed to going to public schools. She says that while there are a large number of white students who are home-schooled, it is for very different reasons. Mazama conducted a survey of 74…

Ervin Leon Edwards (Video still via The Advocate)

Recent video footage obtained of the last moments of Ervin Leon Edwards’ life seems to contradict police reports about what happened.

Edwards died on November 26, 2013 lying facedown in a West Baton Rouge Parish Jail cell after officers used force, including a taser, to restrain him, reports The Advocate.…

7.8 Magnitude Nepal Earthquake Kills At Least 2,200 (Video/Pics)

Following Dave Chappelle's performance at the Fillmore in Detroit on Thursday, April 23, lots of fans are demanding a refund.

TMZ reports that the comedian told very few jokes. Instead his rambling set was filled with slurred speech and sitting in…

Cuba’s Center of Molecular Immunology and New York’s Roswell Park Cancer Institute, have signed an agreement to export to the United States, a therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer developed here.

“The agreement will allow us to limit ourselves to clinical trials of the vaccine when we get to New York,” said Candace Johnson, the director of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute .

Johnson was part of a trade…

The US Senate confirmed Loretta Lynch as the nation's first black female attorney general Thursday, installing an aggressive counter-terrorism prosecutor as the top law enforcement official for President Barack Obama's final 21 months in office.