Featured Blog Posts – August 2014 Archive (40)

Joan Rivers Passes Away At 81. Investigation Launched Into Clinic Where She Was Having Throat Surgery When She Stopped Breathing *UPDATE* Video Added

• Legion of notables shows up at New York's Temple Emanu-El to remember the legend, who died at 81 on Thursday
• Among the crowds: Kathy Griffin, Whoopie Goldberg, Howard Stern 
  
  
• In her…

BREAKING NEWS: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have FINALLY got married after nine years together

• Angelina didn't tell her actor father Jon Voight about the wedding
• The couple married at their $60 million Chateau in Nice, France
• There…

 

A police sketch of the suspect. (NYPD)

A man pretending to be a taxi driver picked up a woman and her three kids early Sunday morning and drove them to a secluded location behind a Forest Hills building, where he attempted to sexually assault the woman. According to the NYPD, the suspect picked up the family at 207th Street in Manhattan around 2:45 a.m., and, claiming to be a cab driver, took them to 7900 Queens Boulevard. The children…

Living reggae legend John Holt collapses onstage in UK

Veteran Jamaican reggae singer John Holt died in a London hospital on Sunday. He was 69.

Copeland Forbes, Holt’s manager since 2006, confirmed the entertainer’s passing.

“John died at 2:40 am English time. His [John’s] nephew informed of his death,” Forbes told OBSERVER ONLINE.…

The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards aired Sunday night, August 24th. The big winner on the evening was Beyonce. The superstar singer took home three awards, includingBest Video with a Social Message for "Pretty Hurts."

Miley Cyrus won Video…

Lauryn Hill decides to release a sketch of a track that's been sitting in her vault entitled"Black…

The NY City Subway IS safe: De Blasio holds press conference to insist that there is no terror threat after Iraqi PM's claims that ISIS will launch strike {VIDEO+PICS}

An Islamic State group video released Sunday purports to show extremists beheading a dozen Syrian soldiers and ends with a militant claiming to have killed U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, the latest slaughter proudly broadcast by the group on the…

Moment Michael Brown was shot dead 'caught on audio recording': FBI handed potentially damning tape of ELEVEN rounds being fired - including final volley of 'kill shots'

• English teacher Jennifer Sexton quit her job at Hollis Middle School just days after allegedly having sex with the boy for the first time in April
• Police say in June they discovered Sexton with the boy in a Mississippi motel room
• The…

NY model missing after she left home she shared with boyfriend because she 'just wanted to get away,' but mysteriously left her cell phone at home

• Ataui Deng, 22, went missing from Manhattan 10 days ago and was found alive on Monday at an area hospital
  
  
• She worked for Trump Model Management and appeared in Vogue Germany;  walked the catwalk for Zac Posen
• Her boyfriend,…

*Did you know that “Black on Black” crime actually dropped from a high of 94% in the 1990s to 91.3% in 2012? Of course you didn’t, seeing as mainstream media has a real fixation on ignoring this fact.

Here’s something else we betcha didn’t know. “White on White” crime actually went up during this time span.

Of course if you are a listener of Fox News, not only are blacks…

Oprah did the famed Ice Bucket Challenge on Friday, and duh, it was amazing. Check out her scream! That's how you know it was real. (Props to Gayle King for doing the honors, too.)

WATCH:…

SELF-PROPELLED SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE (SSPS) VESSEL 

The Guyana government says it will do whatever is required to deal with the illegal drugs trade here after the authorities discovered a submersible vessel allegedly being used by drug smugglers in the North West region of the country.

“We will spend whatever is necessary; I can’t say that we will spend unlimited amounts. We have…

Two shot as gunfire rings out in Ferguson on NINTH night of violence: Gas mask-clad reporters look on as cops fire tear gas at protesters armed with Molotov cocktails in scenes resembling a war zone

• Evidence released by St Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch
• Includes Darren Wilson's testimony after shooting Michael…

• Heather Mack, 19, has claimed she is pregnant and police are investigating whether this made the relationship with her mother, Sheila von Weise Mack, worsened 
  
  
• She claims her pregnancy is ectopic and she needs to return to the US for treatment. Police have not revealed the results of…

Meet Sheri Pierre, a model, dancer, and makeup artist from New York City. Sheri has a seven year background of dance, and was a part of the great, Alvin Ailey's, summer intensive program. Through dance Sheri also discovered her love for the art of makeup. Her fellow dancers would ask her backstage to assist them with their makeup after she did her own. Since then she has worked for MAC makeup line and has done many fashion shows and events as a…