Articles Posted by Front Page News
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“Freeway” Ricky Ross
Ricky Donnell Ross, better known as “Freeway” Rick Ross, is one of those rare figures whose experience as a drug kingpin has led him to a life of rebuilding the community in which he once helped destroy. According to the Oakland Tribune” In the course of his rise, prosecutors estimate that Ross exported several tons […]
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Baltimore Will Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Possession Cases
BALTIMORE — Baltimore has both the highest murder rate among the nation’s big cities and one of the most broken relationships between its police and its citizenry. Only one out of four homicides were solved last year. And the city’s enforcement of marijuana laws has fallen almost exclusively on African-Americans. Given this dire set of […]
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Skipp Townsend
Skipp Townsend, Intervention Specialist, 2nd Call. 2nd Call is a community-based organization designed to assist in the personal development of individuals, who are at risk youth, ex-felons, parolees and others who society disregards. 2nd Call believes that by enlarging the scope of individual’s lives and working a coordinated strategy with education, employment, housing, health insurance, and […]
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Jermaine Dupri Promises To Share His Super Bowl Stage With Mothers Of Police Brutality Victims
Jermaine Dupri will use his platform for social justice during his Super Bowl Live events. The famed producer was accused of selling out when he agreed to curate a week of events leading up to the big game. Despite the backlash, the show will go on, and now Dupri says he plans to provide a […]
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Kennedy, King, Malcolm X relatives and scholars seek new assassination probes
Joined by relatives of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, a group of more than 60 authors and investigators have called for a new congressional investigation into the assassinations of the three men and President John F. Kennedy, saying that the four slayings were not resolved and “had a […]
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Marie Deary – Wealth Management Services
Marie Deary is the Founder of Wealth Management Financial Advisors Inc. Marie specializes in credit restoration, loan modification and packaging, debt consolidation, SBA loan packaging, foreclosure prevention & management, and keeping our personal finance ships afloat in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Merrill Lynch in the ongoing saga of the current financial crisis. Deary […]
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Dr. Mable John
Born in Louisiana to Mertis and Lillie John, Mable is the eldest of ten sisters and brothers. A former R&B vocalist, she is the sister of the late-great Little Willie John. When she embarked on her singing career, she received a bit of advice from her already famous brother. “Either be a star or pack […]
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Kalief Browder’s Suicide Brought Changes to Rikers. Now It Has Led to a $3 Million Settlement.
New York City has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Kalief Browder, the young Bronx man whose detention on Rikers Island became a symbol of the breakdown in criminal justice in New York and fueled the drive to ban solitary confinement for youths in the city’s […]
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Black kids on bikes threatened with gun, called slur after woman says her foot was run over
A group of young black cyclists participating in the ‘wheels up guns down’ MLK Day protest were threatened with a gun by a white man and called the n-word because a white woman claimed someone rode over her foot. A member of the human rights group Dream Defenders recorded the disturbing video of the exchange in Miami […]
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Thabiti Umoja
Thabiti has been an herbalist and Certified Iridologist for the past 20 years. Thabiti Umoja was born in Morgan City Louisiana and raised in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. In 1988, Thabiti was involved in a tragic car accident. As he was outside his vehicle attending his Volkswagen (which broke down), another car struck him moving […]
