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CHRISTOPHER DORNER: EX-LAPD OFFICER WANTED IN TRIPLE REVENGE MURDER

February 7, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

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A massive manhunt was under way Thursday for an ex-LAPD cop suspected of murdering at least two people and seeking to kill many others including police officers and their families on a vengeful rampage.Christopher Dorner — who posted what appeared to be his plan in a chilling online manifesto — was playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that had California cities from Los Angeles to San Diego on high alert, while officers guarded the homes of at least 40 people who could be on his hit list.

At an emotional press conference, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck cataloged the bloody trail that began Sunday with a double murder and continued Thursday — leaving one cop dead, two more wounded and two civilians shot by officers in a case of mistaken identity.

“Of course he knows what he’s doing,” Beck said of the suspect. “We trained him.”

Dorner — a 270-pound former Navy reservist who was tossed off the police force in 2008 — has an arsenal of weapons, including assault rifles, police said. Citizens were told to call 911 if they see his dark gray 2005 Nissan Titan truck, but warned not to approach him.

Dorner, 33, graduated from Southern Utah University in 2001 with a major in political and a minor in psychology. He also played football for at least two of those years, the university confirmed.

He was a lieutenant in the Navy Reserves from 2002 until this week, and earned a ribbon for rifle marksmanship and a medal for pistol expertise. He was honorably discharged.

He joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 2005 and was fired for making false statements in 2008.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck provides a briefing on the case of Christopher Dorner, the fired LAPD officer wanted in revenge slayings in Irvine, California.

In his 11,300-word blueprint for vengeance — a cached version of which was obtained by NBCLosAngeles.com — Dorner made it clear he is out for the blood of his perceived enemies and their loved ones.

“I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I’m terminating yours,” Dorner wrote in his rambling manifesto, addressing LAPD officials he blamed for ruining his career.

“Look your wives/husbands and surviving children directly in the face and tell them the truth as to why your children are dead.”

Police say Dorner began killing on Sunday.

Monica Quan, 28, and her fiancé, Keith Lawrence, 27, were fatally shot while parking their car at their apartment complex after a Super Bowl party. Quan is the daughter of retired LAPD Capt. Randy Quan, who represented Dorner at the internal review that led to his ouster.

On Wednesday, they say Dorner tried and failed to steal a boat in San Diego, Beck said. No one was hurt in that incident.

Hours later, he began targeting cops, they said.

At 1:25 a.m., in Chino, LAPD cops assigned to protect someone named in the manifesto came under fire. One cop suffered a graze wound to his head, “literally inches from killing him,” Beck said.

Twenty minutes later, in Riverside, he ambushed two cops stopped at a red light. One officer was killed and the other is in stable condition.

The attacks left cops on protection and search details across the region on edge — with tragic results.

At 5:15 a.m. in Torrance, police assigned to watch the home of a potential target got a report of a vehicle like Dorner’s in the area, and then spotted it driving with the lights off. Shots were fired and the two people in the vehicle were struck; both are expected to survive.

“Tragically we believe this was a case of mistaken identity by the officers,” Beck said.

Later in the day, dozens of cops surrounded a motel in San Diego where a man matching Dorner’s description was reported to be holed up. KNSD said police eventually confirmed the man inside was not the suspect.

“It’s extremely intense,” Sgt. Rudy Lopez said of the dragnet to capture the suspect before anyone else is killed.

“We’re trying to identify where he’s been, where he’s going. In this case, we are the targets. He’s brazen. He’s on a hunt to do whatever havoc he can.”

Dorner’s manifesto, titled “Last Resort,” is a road map of his rage over being tossed off the force. He claims that he was punished for accusing his field training officer of brutalizing a mentally disabled man.

“The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!!” he wrote.

Half of it chronicles the wrongs Dorner says he suffered, stretching all the way back to a racial slur used against him in the first grade. He portrays the LAPD as rife with racism, corruption and abuse.

There is a long passage in which he expresses support for an assault-weapons ban, and a plea that his brain be preserved for scientific research on the effects of depression.

The document also contains page after page of praise for friends, political figures, journalists and celebrities and opinions on issues of the day — from women in combat to the boycott of Chick-fil-A.

Mostly, though, he talks about his bloodthirsty plans. He claims his arsenal includes “Bushmaster firearms, Remington precision rifles” and silencers and boasts that his knowledge of police tactics will allow him to elude capture.

“I know I will be villified (sic) by the LAPD and the media,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name.”

Police chiefs giving press conferences in Riverside and in Los Angeles, when asked what message they have for the suspect, said they would urge him to stand down.

“I would tell him to turn himself in, said Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck. “This has gone far enough. No one else needs to die.”

Offering a similar message Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz said of the fugitive: “His grievances will not be further aired by further violence.”

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HADIYA PENDELTON:TEEN PERFORMER AT OBAMA INAUGURAL EVENTS SHOT DEAD

January 31, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Hadiya Pendelton, a teen who performed at events around President Barack Obama’s inauguration was shot to death in Chicago this week, and now her story has become part of the debate in Washington over gun violence nationwide.

The shooting death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton came up in a U.S. Senate hearing and a White House press briefing Wednesday.

“She was an honor student and a majorette,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois. Performing at inaugural events last week “was the highlight of her young, 15-year-old life,” he said.

Speaking at Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, Durbin mentioned Pendleton’s death as he argued that more must be done to stop gun crimes.

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“Yesterday, in a rainstorm after school, she raced to a shelter. A gunman came in and shot her dead,” he said. “Just a matter of days after the happiest day of her life, she’s gone.”

The park shelter where she was shot is just a mile from Obama’s home in Chicago.

White House spokesman Jay Carney described her death as a “terrible tragedy.”

“The president has more than once, when he talks about gun violence in America, referred not just to the horror of Newtown or Aurora or Virginia Tech or Oak Creek but to shootings on the corner in Chicago or other parts of the country,” Carney told reporters. “And this is just another example of the problem we need to deal with.”

2013 has gotten off to a deadly start in Chicago — Pendleton was the year’s 42nd murder victim. No arrests have been made in the case, police said Wednesday.

In 2012, 506 people were slain in the city.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel described Pendleton Wednesday as “what’s best in our city, a child going to school who takes a final exam, who had just been to the inaugural.”

“We have a responsibility to see a stop to this,” he said. “And all of us are responsible.”

Pendleton was shot just blocks away from her high school on the south side of Chicago, CNN affiliate WGN reported.

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Police told CNN affiliates that the teenager had no gang affiliation and likely was not the intended target.

“There has to be an end to it. It’s just too much. The children cannot go to school. They’re in fear,” Bonita O’Bannion, who lives in the area where the shooting occurred, told CNN affiliate WBBM.

Carney said the president and first lady’s thoughts and prayers are with Pendleton’s family.

“And as the president said, we will never be able to eradicate every act of evil in this country,” Carney said, “but if we can save even one child’s life, we have an obligation to try when it comes to the scourge of gun violence.”

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BRAZIL NIGHTCLUB FIRE CLAIMS 233 YOUNG LIVES

January 28, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Santa Maria, Brazil (CNN) — Guitarist Rodrigo Martins was preparing to launch into the sixth song of his band’s set when he saw embers fall.

The acoustic foam insulation on the ceiling of the KISS nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria was on fire, and it was beginning to spread.
The hot ash fell onto the stage and dance floor.

In front of him, a sea of people who moments earlier were dancing and singing along to the country-pop sounds of his band Gurizada Fandangueira began to realize something was wrong.

Suddenly, concert-goers were stampeding toward the club’s only exit, pushing and shoving each other trying to get out.Then, according to investigators and witnesses, somebody fell in the narrow, dark hallway that led to the windowless exit.
And then another person fell.And then another.

It was the last weekend of Brazil’s summer break for many of the students, and the KISS nightclub was packed early Sunday with young people, many of whom attended one of a number of universities and colleges in Santa Maria.

At least 231 people died and hundreds more were injured in the fire that authorities believe began about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when the band’s pyrotechnic show ignited insulation material.
Many apparently died from smoke inhalation. Others were trampled in the rush for the exits.
Of the dead, 101 were students at the Federal University of Santa Maria.
Another 120 remained hospitalized Monday morning, 79 in critical condition, authorities said.
About 2,000 people were inside the club when the fire broke out — double the maximum capacity of 1,000, said Guido de Melo, a state fire official.

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The roof collapsed in several parts of the building, trapping many inside. Firefighters found piles of bodies in the club’s bathroom.It looked, said state lawmaker Valderci Oliveira, “like a war zone.”

For others, escaping was complicated by the fact that guards initially stopped people from leaving, said a reporter from CNN affiliate Band News, echoing comments from the state fire official.
“Some guards thought at first that it was a fight, a huge fight that happened inside the club and closed the doors so that the people could not leave without paying their bills from the club,” the reporter, Glauber Fernandes, said.But Rodrigo Moura, a nightclub security guard, said the fire moved fast.”All of a sudden the fire just took off and was all around us. We tried to tell people to get out,” he said.

The owners of the nightclub, meanwhile, pledged to cooperate with the investigation into the fire, according to a statement released by the law firm of Kummel & Kummel.
“We are open to all authorities and inspections,” said the statement, obtained by Globo TV.
The club’s license had expired in August and had not been renewed, a local fire official told Globo TV.The owners, however, said the nightclub was properly permitted and had been inspected by the fire marshal.

The band, Gurizada Fandangueira, was a popular attraction at KISS in part because of its pyrotechnic show, according to Billboard.com. It played at the nightclub about once a month, and was there Sunday to promote a new album.Martins, the guitarist, told Radio Gaucha the band had been on stage for about 20 minutes, finishing the fifth song of its set, when it set off its “sputnik” pyrotechnics — sparkler columns that shoot up in the air.”We used it all the time. …We never had this problem before,” he told the radio station late Sunday.

Martins said he first noticed a small ember, and then he looked up at the ceiling and saw the flames.A backstage hand attempted to put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher. “But, it didn’t work,” he said.Martins said as he and the other band members got off the stage, there were 20 to 30 people in front of him who were “being blocked by security.”People started pushing and shoving, and then they tripped over one another to the door.Martins said the band’s accordion player, 28-year-old Danilo Jacques, died in the fire. “I saw him, and then I lost him in the crowd.”

Esequiel Corte Real and his friends arrived late for the show and ended up with what they thought was one of the worst locations to watch — by the exit.
The same happened with Norton Basson and his friends, who were at the club to celebrate his 29th birthday.
They are alive, they believe, because of where they were — making them among the first to make it out alive.
After the fire started, the dark, narrow hallway that led to KISS nightclub’s exit was choked with smoke and people trying to find their way out.
Outside, Corte Real and his friends could hear the screams of people trying to escape.
He told Globo TV that he and his friends ran back in to the club to try to help.
They pulled out one body. Then two more.
“Somebody must be alive,” he said.
Basson and his friends, meanwhile, grabbed rocks, sticks and an axe they found at a nearby building and began trying to knock a hole in the side of the club to help those trapped inside. Others soon joined them with shovels and more axes.
Firefighters used the hole Basson and his friends created to get inside the club.
There, they were greeted by the eerie sounds of cell phones ringing in the pockets and purses of the dead. Many of the calls were from parents desperate to reach their children.

The missing
Later Sunday, family members wept as they searched for information outside a local gymnasium where bodies were taken for identification.
Inside, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff met with relatives as they waited on bleachers for word of their loved ones. She had been attending a regional summit in Chile, but cut short the trip and returned to Brazil early to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy.
“The Brazilian people are the ones who need me today,” she said. “I want to tell the people of Santa Maria in this time of sadness that we are all together.”
Ericmar Avila Dos Santos went from hospital to hospital Sunday, searching for his 23-year-old brother.
Hours earlier, he learned in a telephone call from a friend that his older brother was among those missing following the fire.
His family scanned lists, talked with police officials. They checked with friends, searched everywhere.
They finally found him — among hundreds of bodies laid out on body bags at a makeshift morgue at a local gym.
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“I was supposed to go with him. I didn’t feel like going out. He ended up there without me,” Avila Dos Santos said, openly sobbing over his brother’s coffin outside the gym.
On Monday, the first of Brazil’s three days of mourning, the three cemeteries in the city of 260,000 were packed with families readying to bury their dead.
Among them: Avila Dos Santos’ family.
“We did everything together. We were even studying the same major,” he said, remembering his brother. “Now that he’s gone, I’m lost. I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life.”

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ANOTHER GANG RAPE IN INDIA: YET THEY SAY THAT AFRICA IS THE DARKEST CONTINENT

January 14, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night.

Police have arrested all seven suspects, including the bus driver, after the alleged Friday night attack in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab state.

Just like a gang rape in New Delhi that sparked international outrage last month, the new attack occurred after the woman got on a bus.

The bus sped past her stop, police said. By that time, the woman was the only passenger.

The bus driver and his helper then took the married 29-year-old woman to an undisclosed address where five others joined the two men and raped her throughout the night, police said.

“They threatened me with a sharp edged weapon and did wrong things with me,” the victim told CNN’s sister station, CNN-IBN. “They kept me confined all through the night and forced me to do what they want.”

The next day, the suspects dropped her off at her village, where she informed her family and alerted police, according to authorities.

The alleged attack bears a similarity to a December 16 gang rape where attackers assaulted a woman after she boarded a bus. The men also brutally beat her and her male companion, robbed them of their belongings and later dumped them by the side of a road.

Both New Delhi and Gurdaspur are in northern India.

The Delhi incident triggered rallies nationwide and an uproar over the treatment of women.

The badly beaten 23-year-old woman was flown to Singapore for treatment after the attack.

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She died about two weeks later while undergoing treatment.

Five men were charged with murder, rape and kidnapping, and face the death penalty if convicted. A juvenile court is determining the age of a sixth suspect, who claims to be 17 and not old enough to be tried as an adult.

At the time, the government pledged stronger laws against sexual assaults.

The number of reported rapes in India — a country where a cultural stigma keeps many victims from reporting the crime — has increased drastically, from 2,487 in 1971 to 24,206 in 2011, according to official figures.

Most women in India have stories of sexual harassment and abuse on public transportation or on the streets, said Seema Sirohi, of the Indian Council on Global Relations.

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PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA: OIL TANKER EXPLDES

January 12, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

I just saw online that an oil tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, yesterday. Port arcourt is one of Nigerias leading oil producing regions.

This is sad news because further information from the event says the following there has been loss of life. These are the details: 2 killed, 8 injured, 11 vehicles, 4 motorcycles, 13 shops, 23 makeshift houses, 2 churches and 1 mosque razed, as fuel tanker XS 942 KJA fell and caught fire at Mbiama in Rivers State today.

Please keep the lost souls in your hearts and minds.

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VITTORIO MISSONI FEARED DEAD- ITALIAN FASHION HEIR, MISSING AFTER PLANE VANISHES

January 5, 2013 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

A small plane carrying six people, one of them Vittorio Missoni, a director of Italy’s famed Missoni fashion house, is missing off the coast of Venezuela, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol Torres said.

The search for the missing aircraft continued Saturday, an Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Missoni confirmed in a statement that Vittorio Missoni, son of fashion house founders Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, was on the plane with his wife.

“The small plane they were traveling on has disappeared. This is all the information currently available,” the company statement said.

Vittorio Missoni, 58, runs the company with his siblings, Luca and Angela.

The plane was carrying four Italian nationals who were on vacation, Reverol said in a statement Friday. The Venezuelan Interior Ministry identified the two other Italians as Guido Foresti and Elda Scalveuzi. A pilot and co-pilot also were on board.

The plane left Los Roques, an archipelago and resort, Friday morning bound for the international airport outside Caracas, about 90 miles away, Reverol said.

Italian authorities are in touch with their Venezuelan counterparts and the families of those missing, said a spokesman in the Italian Foreign Ministry’s media office.

The ministry called on the Venezuelan authorities to do all they can to locate the missing plane and those on board, he said.

Missoni, which boasts such celebrity clients as Katie Holmes, Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie, is a high-end fashion label known for its patterned knitwear and signature zigzag stripe.

The private company, based in Milan, has estimated annual sales of between $75 million and $100 million.

The brand, first created in 1953 as a knitwear workshop in Gallarte, Italy, has gone on to expand from apparel to housewares, a fragrance line and a chain of hotels.

Stefano Tonchi, editor-in-chief of W magazine, called the Missonis “one of the most important Italian fashion families,” crediting their move to Milan in the late 1960s with helping make the northern Italian city the fashion hub it is today.

Vittorio Missoni and his siblings took over the brand in 1996 with an eye toward marketing to a younger consumer.

The fashion house partnered with Target in 2011 to produce a more budget-friendly collection for the discount retailer, which prompted Target’s website to crash due to the high demand.

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RUTH THALIA SAYAS SANCHEZ, PERUVIAN REALITY TV SHOW CONTESTANT FOUND DEAD

September 26, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

A Peruvian reality show has become part of a real-life crime drama as authorities investigate the slaying of a contestant who appeared on the program.

Police found Ruth Thalia Sayas Sanchez’s body Saturday, more than two months after the 19-year-old’s on-air confession that she worked in a nightclub and twice accepted money for sex.

Investigators uncovered evidence of poison in her body and signs that she was strangled, Peruvian Attorney General Jose Pelaez told reporters.

Authorities accuse her ex-boyfriend of killing her because he felt he was entitled to some of the 15,000 soles ($5,700) she won on the show, according to police accounts reported by local media.

Sayas was the first contestant on “The Value of Truth,” which features participants answering tough questions about their personal lives in front of an audience and loved ones. Before appearing on the show, contestants are subjected to a polygraph test to verify their responses.

Pelaez said investigators were looking into the role the show could have played in Sayas’ death.

“The investigation will determine whether there is some degree of responsibility, even though it seems to me that it would be a responsibility that would not have a causal relation,” he told reporters.

The teen’s family has said the show did not cause her death.

“This television program has absolutely nothing to do with it,’ said Freddy Sanchez Rojas, Sayas’ uncle.

On Sunday, the president of Peru’s Radio and Television Advisory Council cited Sayas’ death as she called on media in the South American country to more closely monitor the contents of their programs.

“I think there is a marked tendency in our media to convert strong and difficult news into a show so everyone can see it. There is a concept of information and news that goes against the very people covered within the report,” President Rosa Maria Alfaro said.

Facing increased scrutiny, the show’s host has said the program is not responsible for her slaying.

Criticism of the show is unfair, host Beto Ortiz said.

“What they are doing is giving an alibi to the defenders of a soulless criminal, because they are taking away his responsibility by saying that television creates monsters,” he said.

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MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN, ‘GREEN MILE’ ACTOR, DEAD AT 54

September 3, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Michael Clarke Duncan, nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 1999 film “The Green Mile,” has died at age 54, according to a representative for his family.

Duncan “suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered,” a written statement from Joy Fehily said.

Clarke died at a Los Angeles hospital where he had been since having the heart attack more than seven weeks ago.

According to TMZ, it was Duncan’s girlfriend Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, a reality star and former contestant on “The Apprentice,” who had acted quickly and provided lifesaving efforts when he had the heart attack.

Most recently he was on the TV series, “The Finder,” on the Fox network.

His co-star Mercedes Masohn tweeted: “Today is a sad day. Michael Clark Duncan passed away this morning. Known for his moving performance in The Green Mile. RIP MCD. You’ll b missed.”

According to Entertainment Weekly, the TV series was canceled in May.

A towering and hulking figure, the 6-foot-5-inch Duncan also was known for his deep voice.

In 1998, he landed his first significant movie part, playing Bear in the film “Armageddon,” where a crew of drillers from a oil rig save the Earth from an asteroid.

A year later he was in the “The Green Mile” as John Coffey, a role that landed him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor.

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CHRIS LIGHTY, 50 CENT MANAGER, DEAD. DEATH CALLED SUICIDE

August 31, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty killed himself Thursday after a heated argument with his estranged wife in the Bronx, police sources told the Daily News.
Lighty — a longtime manager who worked with the likes of 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Diddy, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey — walked away from the argument after declaring “I’m tired of this,” before shooting himself in the head behind his South Riverdale home about 11:30 a.m., the sources said.
Cops found Lighty, 44, the founder and chief of Violator Management, lying faceup on the basement patio in a pool of blood with a 9-mm. pistol at his side, the sources said.
The shocking suicide followed a wild spat between Lighty and his 36-year-old wife, Veronica, who filed for divorce last year.
Moving trucks were at the home, as the veteran music manager prepared to move out of the three-story townhouse, sources said.
Law enforcement sources said Lighty’s wife of seven years told police he was facing financial woes that include a $5 million debt to the IRS. However, The Associated Press reported that Lighty paid off most of what he owed by selling a Manhattan apartment for $5.6 million in October.
Lighty still owed more than $330,000 in state and federal taxes, the AP reported. And in April, he was sued by City National Bank for not paying them after he had overdrawn his account by $53,584.
His 17-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son were in the W. 232nd St. home and left when the argument erupted. They were in a park nearby when Lighty, H who has three other children, stepped outside and pulled the trigger, sources said.
“It’s just devastating,” said Dan Charnas, author of “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop” who featured Lighty in the final chapters of his book. “He was the personification of hip hop’s growth into the world.”
Charnas recalled how the kid from the Bronx River Houses evolved into a successful businessman.
“He wasn’t on the straight and narrow,” the writer said, but “learned to restrain whatever demons he had. Maybe in the end his circumstances weakened his restraints.” Lighty — who was reportedly worth an estimated $30 million — helped launch the careers of several artists, including brokering a multimillion-dollar deal for 50 Cent.
Lighty pushed the Queens rapper to sign a deal with Glaceau Energy Brands when they unveiled their new product, Vitamin Water, in 2004.
The “In Da Club” rapper joined the campaign team, appearing in several ads for about three years.
When Coca-Cola bought Glaceau for $4.1 billion, 50 Cent cashed out his 10% stake in the company — which reportedly earned the rapper between $60 million and $100 million.

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Hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty was found dead outside his Bronx apartment Thursday.

Rumors swirled recently that the pair had a falling out, but Lighty took to his blog to clear the air.
In his final blog post on his website, ChrisLighty.com, he wrote that he was “BUSY TRYING TO STAY AHEAD OF THE RAT RACE WE CALL HIP HOP.”
Lighty said allegations that he and his brother were attacked by a member of 50 Cent’s crew were simply ridiculous.
The June 23 post, titled “chaos and mayhem . . . hip hop,” continued with an eerie message, apparently aimed at twisted stories involving his clients.
“YOU HAVE SEEN THE SENSELESS LOSSES THAT WE HAVE HAD IN HIP HOP … THE CHAOS AND MAYHEM WILL DESTROY HIP HOP.”
Lighty, who was born Darrel Lighty, was raised with five siblings by a single mother in the projects. He had his big break in the late 1980s, when Russell Simmons offered him a gig to work for his management company.
His career quickly catapulted after Lighty founded Violator Management, which merged last year with Primary Wave Talent Management to create Primary Violator.
In 2008, he was named one of Crain’s 40 under 40.
“When you’re growing up in the Reagan era, you really learn the value of a food stamp — and you never want to go back there,” he told Crain’s.
“On the entrepreneurial side, this is one of the biggest losses in hip hop,” said Datwon Thomas, executive editor of Vibe magazine.
Lighty had one arrest on his record, a pinch for weapons possession, a law enforcement source said.
As news of his sudden death spread Thursday, some of the industry’s brightest stars took to Twitter to share their condolences.
“In shock,” tweeted Sean (Diddy) Combs. “R.I.P. Chris Lighty.”
“Rest peacefully Chris Lighty, my prayers go out to family and loved ones! Dear God please have mercy,” tweeted songstress Rihanna.
“R.I.P. CHRIS LIGHTY THE MAN THAT SAVED MY LIFE,” Bronx rapper Fat Joe posted on Twitter. “I Would Be Nothing Without YOU!!! My Kids Appreciate YOU God Bless Chris Lighty.”
Nick Cannon posted: “I’m devastated right now. I can’t believe my big brother Chris Lighty is gone . . . He was a pioneer, a mentor, and a great friend.”
Outside Lighty’s home, some stars showed up to help finish removing boxes Lighty was packing to take away from the house.
Deejay Funkmaster Flex and rapper Busta Rhymes were seen outside helping load two UHaul trucks parked on the street.
“I am utterly, utterly devastated,” said hip-hop activist Harry Allen. “It feels unfair to us. He was our wealth. Chris was like the fruition of all that could be. He was loved.”

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DEATH TOLL UP TO 30 AS POLICE FIRES ON STRIKING MINERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

August 17, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Police opened fire to disperse thousands of machete-wielding workers taking part in a strike at a South African mine, killing more than 30, authorities said Friday.

South African police said more than 30 people died in the attack Thursday. The National Union of Mineworkers gave the number at 36.

The violence erupted when police shot at striking workers from competing unions armed with machetes and spears. The workers have gathered for a week to demand higher salaries in a dispute intensified by tensions between rival trade unions.

Before Thursday, at least 10 other people, including two police officers, had been hacked to death in the violence, according to mine owners Lonmin, the world’s third-largest platinum producer.

“We are shocked and dismayed at this senseless violence,” President Jacob Zuma said. “We believe there is enough space in our democratic order for any dispute to be resolved through dialogue without any breaches of the law or violence.”

Witnesses described the scene Thursday as chaotic, making it impossible to determine who started firing on whom first.

After the gunfire erupted, blood-stained bodies lay strewn all over a field in a police response reminiscent of the ugly days of apartheid rule, which ended in 1994.

South African police said its members fired when the “heavily armed group of illegal gatherers at Lonmin mine” ignored orders to disperse and fired back.

They attacked police using various weapons, the agency said in a statement.

“The police, in order to protect their own lives and in self defense, were forced to engage the group with force,” the statement said.

Production at the world’s third-largest platinum producer came to a halt as workers, mostly rock drillers, went on strike August 10 over a wage dispute. The miners, who earn between $300 and $500 a month, are demanding up to $1,500 a month.

Before Thursday’s bloodshed, the company had issued an ultimatum to the striking workers to return to work by Friday or face dismissal.

The violence is the latest mine attacks in the nation this year.

In January, at least three people were killed during a six-week strike at the world’s second-largest platinum mine, Impala Platinum.

In that incident, the violence was also blamed on union rivalry. The two implicated unions accused of trying to outdo each other in negotiating wages denied instigating the clashes.

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GRAPHIC: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE GUN DOWN STRIKING MINERS AFTER EXPLOSION

August 16, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Rising tensions at a South African platinum mine exploded Thursday in grisly violence as police opened fire on striking miners.

Blood-stained bodies lay strewn about a field in a police response reminiscent of the ugly days of apartheid.

Police have not released a death toll, but a South African Press Association reporter counted 18 corpses. It’s feared more could be dead.

Witnesses described the scene as chaotic, making it seemingly impossible to determine who started firing on whom first.

The South African Police Service, though, issued a statement late Thursday indicating its members trying to “disarm and disperse a heavily armed group of illegal gatherers at Lonmin mine” when they were fired upon.

“The South African Police Service was viciously attacked by the group, using a variety of weapons, including firearms,” the agency said. “The police, in order to protect their own lives and in self defense, were forced to engage the group with force.”

Taurai Maduna was one of several journalists at the mine in Marikana who was told the weeklong strike was going to end Thursday.

“We waited and waited,” he told CNN. “Police started moving into the crowd.”

He said the police brought in barbed wire to fence in the miners, who were believed to be armed with guns, machetes and sticks, CNN affiliate E-TV reported.

Police fired tear gas and then used a water cannon to disperse the strikers congregating atop a hill. The mine workers retaliated by firing at police, and a storm of gunfire lasted about three minutes, E-TV said.

“There was a lot of commotion,” Maduna said. “There was tear gas everywhere. I haven’t seen anything like this.”

The situation remained tense Thursday night after what was the deadliest day in almost a week of violence at the Markinana mines.

With the situation “still unfolding” at that time, “senior officials from the Independent Police Investigative Directorate” were managing the scene, according to the South African Police Service. The commissioner of the national police agency, Gen. Riah Phiyega, was among those at the site.

Production at the world’s third-largest platinum producer came to a halt as workers, mostly rock drillers, embarked on a wildcat wage strike last Friday over a wage dispute. The miners who earn between $300 and $500 a month are demanding up to $1,500 a month in salary.

The violence was believed sparked by a rivalry between unions that wield a lot of power and influence in South Africa.

A statement from Lonmin said 10 people had died before Thursday’s incident — eight mine workers and two policemen, who were reported to have been hacked to death.

Roger Phillimore, the chairman of Lonmin, said his company regretted the loss of life “in what is clearly a public order rather than labor relations associated matter.”

“We are treating the developments around police operations this afternoon with the utmost seriousness,” he said.

The company had issued an ultimatum to the striking workers: Return to work by Friday or face dismissal. That was before Thursday’s bloodshed.

“The violence that has occurred cannot be condoned and has no place in the way that labor relations and inter-union relations should be conducted,” said Mildred Oliphant, the minister of labor. “The loss of life has been particularly tragic and unnecessary.”

Earlier this year, at least three people were killed during a six-week strike at the world’s second-largest platinum mine, Impala Platinum.

That violence also was blamed on union rivalry, though the two implicated unions, accused of trying to outdo each other in negotiating wages, deny instigating the clashes.

Frans Baleni, head of the dominant National Union for Mineworkers, said Monday that members were under siege.

“Our members have been attacked, and that cannot be said to be clashes or rivalry, it is pure criminality,” he said.

The newer Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union also denied any blame.

In response to the latest violence, a statement posted on South African President Jacob Zuma’s website on Thursday night said Zuma “is alarmed and deeply saddened at the manner in which (the) dispute … has degenerated,” calling the deaths “tragic” and “senseless.”

The president urged union and business leaders to use “dialogue without any breaches of law or violence” to resolve the “situation before it deteriorates any further,” adding that government authorities have a role as well.

“I have instructed law enforcement agencies to do everything possible to bring the situation under control and to bring the perpetrators of violence to (justice),” Zuma said.

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15 DEAD, 50 WOUNDED IN BATMAN MOVIE SHOOTING IN COLORADO

July 20, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

A heavily armed gunman killed at least 14 people and wounded 50 more during an early Friday morning screening of the new Batman movie at an Aurora, Colorado, theater, police Chief Dan Oates told reporters.

Police arrested a man believed to be the shooter in a rear parking lot of the theater, Frank Fania, a police spokesman, told CNN. The suspect was not immediately identified, though Fania said he was believed to be in his early 20s.

“He did not resist. He did not put up a fight,” Fania said. Police seized a rifle and a handgun from the suspect, and another gun was found in the theater, he said.

Oates said there was no evidence of a second gunman, and FBI spokesman Jason Pack said it did not appear the incident was related to terrorism.

President Barack Obama issued a statement saying he and first lady Michelle Obama were “shocked and saddened” by the shooting and pledged the administration’s support for victims of the shooting.

“As we do when confronted by moments of darkness and challenge, we must now come together as one American family,” it said.

Chaos broke out during the showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Century Aurora 16 theater when the shooting began, police and witnesses said.

Witnesses told KUSA that the gunman kicked in an emergency exit door and threw a smoke bomb into the darkened theater before opening fire.

One movie-goer, who was not identified, told KUSA the gunman was wearing a gas mask.

Some people in the audience thought the thick smoke and gunfire was a special effect accompanying the movie, police and witnesses said.

“We just heard a pop, pop, pop, pop,” said Quentin Caldwell, who was attending the Batman showing in an adjacent theater.

Cell phone video taken by someone at the theater showed scores of people screaming and fleeing the building. Some had blood on their clothes.

One police officer carried a girl believed to be about 9 with gunshot wounds to her back out of the theater, a witness said. “She wasn’t moving.”

Authorities also have evacuated the suspect’s Aurora apartment building after “he made a statement about explosives” in his unit, Oates said.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents have searched the suspect’s car and went to his home to search for explosives, agency spokesman Tom Mangan said. They also are conducting emergency traces on the weapons used to see how they were obtained, he said.

Of the wounded, at least 20 were being treated at the University of Colorado Hospital, said spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery. All of the wounded suffered from gunshot wounds, which ranged from minor to critical, she said.

“They’re arriving by police, by ambulance. Some are walking in,” she said.

Ten people were killed in the theater and another four died at area hospitals, Oates said.

Hundreds of police officers descended on the theater, and the FBI has joined the investigation.

“We were calling for help from every police and fire agency,” Fania said.

Aurora, a Denver suburb, is about 13 miles from Littleton, Colorado — site of the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

In that incident, two teenage students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, armed themselves with guns and bombs and opened fire inside the high school. They killed 13 people and wounding 23 others before killing themselves.

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SAGE STALLONE, SYLVESTER STALLONE’S SON FOUND DEAD

July 14, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Sylvester Stallone’s 36-year-old son Sage Moonblood Stallone, who appeared with his father in Rocky V, was found dead in his Los Angeles home Friday.

“Sylvester Stallone is devastated and grief-stricken over the sudden loss of his son Sage Stallone,” says a rep for the actor. “His compassion and thoughts are with Sage’s mother, Sasha. Sage was a very talented and wonderful young man, his loss will be felt forever.”
Police officers were called to the house at 2:17 p.m. and discovered the body. There were no signs of foul play or forced entry.
“It sounds like a terrible tragedy. He was way too young to die,” LAPD Commander Andrew Smith tells PEOPLE.

He adds that reports that Sage died from a prescription overdose are premature.
“It could have been a heart attack or a stroke,” he says, adding the coroner’s office will likely spend several weeks on a toxicology report before it can reach any such conclusion.

Sage’s attorney George Braunstein tells PEOPLE that Sage’s housekeeper initially found him dead.
“(Sage) was full of life, a wonderful, loving person,” says Braunstein. “The last time I talked to him a few days ago he was saying he was getting married, he had a lot of things he was working on and seemed very enthusiastic. There was no indication there was any problem.”
Sage, who Sylvester, 66, had with ex-wife Sasha Czack, was best known for appearing alongside his father in Rocky V, playing son Robert Balboa. He also appeared with his dad in 1996′s Daylight.
The New York Post and TMZ first reported Sage’s death.

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HANS-KRISTIAN RAUSLING, SON OF SWEDISH BILLIONAIRE ARRESTED AFTER WIFE IS FOUND DEAD

July 11, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

The son of one of the world’s wealthiest men is under arrest in London after his American-born wife was found dead in their home this week, her death unexplained.

Police stumbled into the mystery Monday, when they arrested Hans Kristian Rausing on drug charges.

A search of his home in one of London’s most expensive neighborhoods turned up the body of his wife, Eva, spurring police to expand the charges against Rausing.

The case puts the multimillionaire couple squarely back in the headlines four years after they were arrested on charges of possessing cocaine and heroin, according to media reports at the time.

Eva Rausing had tried to smuggle a small amount of crack cocaine and heroin into the U.S. Embassy in London, according to media reports at the time. She and her husband were arrested when police found more drugs at their house.

The pair, however, avoided prosecution. Since then, they have kept a low profile, Forbes magazine said in its annual rich list report this year.

The son of Hans Rausing — who is worth an estimated $10 billion, thanks to the family’s connection to Swedish packaging giant Tetra Laval — Hans Kristian Rausing is now receiving medical treatment, police said Wednesday.

An autopsy Tuesday failed to determine the cause of Eva Rausing’s death, police said.

Police refused to name Rausing as the man who was arrested, but a source familiar with the investigation said the man in custody lived at the address where the body was found.

The source asked not to be named discussing an ongoing investigation.

Eva Rausing had poured hundreds of thousand of pounds into a drug rehabilitation charity in the last few years of her life. She gave more than 500,000 pounds ($778,000) to Mentor, said the charity, which runs programs “to protect children from alcohol and drugs.”

Hans Kristian Rausing’s billionaire father was bought out of the Tetra Laval business founded by his own father.

Tetra Pak declined to comment on Eva Rausing’s death or her husband’s arrest because their branch of the family “divested its interests in Tetra Pak, and the Tetra Laval Group, in 1995.”

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USHER’S STEPSON DECLARED BRAIN DEAD AFTER SERIOUS ACCIDENT

July 9, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

I’ve always been an advocate for a law being passed which will prevent jet skis from getting too close to the shore, where many of these accidents occur. While on vacation, I’ve seen several innocent people come close to being hit by jet skis. Now this happens.

PICTURES: SEVERE FLOODING IN LAGOS,NIGERIA CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS

June 29, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Residents of Lagos State were, yesterday, enveloped by flood following heavy downpour that started Wednesday night.

A number of houses and roads were submerged by the flood caused by the rain that lasted several hours.

Sections of Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway were cut off on both sides by the flood, leading to a gridlock.

Lagos yesterday — : Rescue bid almost turned tragic in Shogunle as flood sweeps Lagos

Many road users were forced to return home or seek alternative routes, while others remained at the spot, waiting for the flood to abate.

A portion of Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road by Mobil Filling Station was submerged, as were some

areas in Mafoluku, Oshodi.

Many residents could not make it to their offices and business places yesterday as most areas in the state were heavily flooded.

Vanguard learnt that in some areas, many property were swept away and some major roads in the state were blocked.

Some of the worst hit areas include: Popo Igunnu, Jimoh and Ago-Hausa Streets, all in Okokomaiko, Iba Local Council Development Area; Jakande in Oto-Awori Local Council Development Area; Sango, Igi avenue, GRA Ikeja, Gbolahan Bankole Street in Igando LCDA, Aboru; Ipaja-Ayobo, Shogunle, Apapa, among others.

Aiyepe Street in Itire, Canal Pepple Road, Shomolu, Agbado-Ijaiye, Ikola, Agbado-Okeodo LCDA, Akintan, Cele, Bakery Bus Stop, all in Ejigbo LCDA; Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation , NNPC at Ejigbo LCDA had its fence destroyed during the downpour.

Disaster on bridge linking Lagos and Ogun

The bridge linking Lagos and Ogun states at Ayobo, in Ayobo/Ipaja Local Council Development Area, was submerged.

Six adults and a child were reportedly carried away by the flood while they attempted to cross from Ogun to Lagos State.

At Okokomaiko, over 500 pupils of Fazil Omar Ahmadiya public Nursery and Primary School 1, 11 and 111, were sent home by the Headmaster after the entire school premises was flooded.

A pupil of the school, Chukwuemeka Amadi said that one of the headmistresses of the three schools, Mrs. Asa sent them home because the entire premises including the classrooms had all been submerged in flood.

On Jimoh Street, the flood destroyed property of the residents leaving many to bail out

water from their living rooms.

Mr. Sam Adebowale, a resident of the area, said that the water destroyed their property because their living rooms were submerged by the flood.

Adebowale lamented that the damage was due to the fact that the drainage canals servicing the area were not cleared by the state government before the commencement of the rain.

At Jakande in Okokomaiko, residents groaned as they were left stranded for hours because the commercial vehicles and Motor cycle operators popularly called Okada plying the routes refused to ply the flooded road.

One of the drivers, Mr. Fatai Olawale, said they could not ply the road because the over 10 kilometre road had been flooded.

Vanguard gathered that motorists who summoned the courage to convey passengers got stranded as their vehicles broke down on the road.

At the Aboru area of Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area, not less than 50

houses were said to have been flooded.

At Alabede area, many residents managed to wade through the flood successfully as buses and motorcycles refused to convey them beyond that area.

At the time of this report, residents of Isheri-Olofin, Egbe-Idimu LCDA were still wallowing in the flood and calling for the state government’s attention.

The flooding of the area, which they said started since seven years ago, got worse recently with the diversion of a drainage channel to the area by the Chinese Construction Company, CCECC, during the construction of the LASU-Iba Road. They claimed that they had sent series of letters to the authorities over their plight to no avail.

The neighbouring communities in Ogun State were also affected. Some of the residents had their properties swept away.

Residents who lamented the situation said it took them hours to even leave their homes for work in the morning.

Monarch cries out

The Alado of Abule Ado in Oriade Local Council Development Area, yesterday, cried out over the inability of his people to either move out or return to their homes.

The Oba said: “This is to inform the state government that Abule Ado bridge has collapsed over night. We have been cut off completely.

Our students, market women, workers and others cannot go out or come in. An urgent intervention is needed.”

One confirmed dead as fence collapses in Bariga

One person was confirmed dead when the fence of a building at 34/40 Shogbamu Street collapsed on another building at 2 Community Street Ita–Baale, Bariga Lagos.

The unfortunate incident which occurred at about 1am during the heavy rain, killed a 22-year-old male whose name was given as Ahmed Shotuminu.

It was a pathetic sight at the scene of the incident when Vanguardvisited as the people wore gloomy looks. The remains of the deceased, who was said to have recently graduated from a furniture making workshop was being prepared for burial.

A resident who gave his name as Seyi Odubanjo, narrated that the fence collapsed at about 1am when the rain was falling heavily, adding that the victim and his younger brother were in the house when suddenly the fence crashed into their apartment.

“The two of them stay in the boy’s quarter of the main building and were both fast asleep when the fence collapsed. But Ahmed was not as lucky as his brother who escaped with minor injury.

“The bricks fell on him and he died instantly, I was sleeping in my house which is opposite their apartment when a call came in that building has collapsed on them and I should come and assist. I quickly rushed to the scene but we could only see his leg while the rest of his body was covered in rubbles.”

Fresh warning

Meantime, the Lagos State Government has again warned residents to be prepared for heavy rainfall accompanied with severe windstorm within the next two weeks, which has been envisaged to be the peak period of this year’s rainy season.

The alert was given by Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello, while monitoring state of the environment during the rains in the state.

The commissioner urged residents living along low line areas of Eti-Osa, Badiya, Amukoko, Makoko, Iwaya, Ajegunle, Owode, Agiliti among others to vacate those areas during this period, and move upland as the intense rains would be accompanied with windstorm.

In case of emergency, residents were implored to take full advantage of Drainage Engineers and Drainage Maintenance officers posted to all the 57 local Government Council Areas of the state, and relate with them effectively to solve their drainage challenges.

Bello, explained that the officers are readily available to provide relief and solutions to all flooding challenges in each Local Government area of the state.

Lagos urges motorists to be cautious

The Lagos State Government has also appealed to all road users especially motorists to observe and obey road traffic signs and other traffic rules and regulations in the state.

Commissioner for Transportation, Comrade Kayode Opeifa who gave the advice said that motorists needed to be more safety conscious, drive with care and ensure that their vehicles are road worthy before putting them on the road especially during the rainy season.

He urged them to ensure that their windscreen wipers were in proper working order and that their tyres were also in good condition before embarking on any journey.

Opeifa reaffirmed the commitment of the state government to safety of lives and property and implored all drivers to avail themselves the opportunity of attending any of the five driving institutes established by the government for re-certification and also to enhance professionalism.

The commissioner noted that officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) would be on hand to assist motorists, while the personnel of Vehicle Inspection office (VIO) had been directed to intensify efforts and ensure non road worthy vehicles were not on the roads.

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NORA EPHRON, NOVELIST,FILMMAKER, SCREENWRITER, DEAD AT 71

June 27, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Novelist, filmmaker and screenwriter Nora Ephron has died after a battle with leukemia, her publisher said Tuesday. She was 71.

“She brought an awful lot of people a tremendous amount of joy. She will be sorely missed,” said the statement from Alfred A. Knopf.

Ephron’s romantic comedies included the box office hits “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle,” both of which earned her screenwriting Oscar nominations.

She was also nominated for an Oscar for writing “Silkwood,” the story of anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood.

Ephron, known for creating strong female characters in her stories, wrote and directed “Julie & Julia,” which earned Meryl Streep a best actress Oscar nomination in 2010.

Ephron’s parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were also screenwriters, with “Carousel,” “Desk Set” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business” on their resumes.

“They were funny and they believed that everything was copy,” Ephron said in a CNN interview in 2009. “They believed that anything in life could be turned into a story, which is really the first rule of humor.”

Ephron’s life was particularly central to her father’s memoir, “We Thought We Could Do Anything.”

Humor was important for surviving her childhood, she said.

“I don’t think you can get through almost anything without humor,” she said.

She married screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi in 1987, eight years after she divorced investigative reporter Carl Bernstein.

The destruction of her marriage to Bernstein was the basis of her book and movie “Heartburn.”

“And I feel bad for the people who don’t at some point understand that there’s something funny in even the worst things that can happen to you,” Ephron said.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the stories Ephron set in his city are classics.

“The loss of Nora Ephron is a devastating one for New York City’s arts and cultural community,” Mayor Bloomberg said in a statement. “From her earliest days at New York City’s newspapers to her biggest Hollywood successes, Nora always loved a good New York story, and she could tell them like no one else.”

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ALLYSON FELIX, JENEBA TARMOH, DEAD HEAT AT OLYMPIC TRIALS: COIN TOSS MAY DECIDE WINNER

June 25, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Bobby Kersee is struggling to make heads or tails of USA Track and Field’s new procedures designed to help break the third-place tie between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh in the women’s 100 meters at the Olympic trials.

Heads or tails just might be what decides it.

The scenarios involve either a coin toss or a runoff to determine the third and final spot on the team for the London Games.

If both athletes choose the same option, it will determine the tiebreaker. If the athletes disagree, the tiebreaker will be a runoff. If both athletes decline a preference, the tiebreaker will be a coin toss.

Confusing? Kersee certainly thinks so.

The coach told The Associated Press the sprinters won’t make any kind of decision until after they complete the 200 later this week. The final is Saturday.

Kersee wants them to fully focus on the task at hand and not worry about a possible runoff — or a coin flip.

“Nine times out of 10, most athletes aren’t going to want to flip a coin,” Kersee said. “Would you go to the Super Bowl and after two overtimes or what have you, have the referees take both coaches to the middle of the field and say, ‘We’re going to flip to see who wins the Super Bowl?’ I don’t see that.”

The national track governing body said they want the matter decided by next Sunday when the trials end. Kersee said he will wait until 11:59 p.m. if he has to, just to ensure more rest for the sprinters.

He’s fearful of a quick turnaround between the 200 final — should both make it — and another round of the 100. That could be a lot to ask of his athletes.

“I’m asking them to focus on the 200 meters, go through drug testing and hopefully they’ll both make the team in the 200 meters,” Kersee said. “Then we’ll meet as a group, we’ll meet with USA Track and Field. I will be in the room on the meeting, but I will have no decision-making power. I’m going to be listening, but let the athletes decide. Let the managers decide what they want to do — I want the best for the athletes.”

Kersee said earlier in the day he’s in favor a runoff to break the tie. Only, he wanted the race held later, maybe even a few weeks later, on a track somewhere to be determined.

To decide anything right now, the coach said, isn’t fair to Felix and Tarmoh, especially because they are both running the 200 that begins Thursday.

Felix and Tarmoh finished in a dead heat in the 100 on Sunday, each leaning across the finish line in 11.068 seconds. They’re looking to join Carmelita Jeter and Tianna Madison on the team.

With no protocol in place at the time of the tie, the organization had to meet to come up with a plan, which was approved by the United States Olympic Committee.

And one of the options was a coin flip, with the rules as to how the coin will be tossed explicitly spelled out. For instance, it says, “the USATF representative shall bend his or her index finger at a 90-degree angle to his or her thumb, allowing the coin to rest on his or her thumb.”

Being the coach of both, Kersee knows he has a conflict of interest in this situation. But he insisted he’s only concerned with one thing: Doing right by his runners.

“You don’t have to bother us about this now,” he said. “You can wait until later.”

Originally, Tarmoh was declared the third-place finisher and the official scoring said she had edged training partner Felix by 0.0001 seconds. But the results were reviewed, and after a lengthy delay, the dead heat was announced.

In swimming, ties are settled with swim-offs between the two deadlocked opponents. Track has tiebreaking procedures for many of its events, as well, but this is a special case for which there is no written solution — a tie for the last spot on the Olympic team.

The USATF said in a release that two cameras are used to determine photo-finishes, one on the outside of the track and another on the inside.

In Saturday’s race, the image from the outside camera was inconclusive for determining the finish because both runners’ arms obscured their torsos.

The torso position is used to determine the finish.

The image from the inside camera, shot at 3,000 frames per second, was analyzed by timers and referees, who declared the tie.

Should the sprinters settle the matter with a runoff, Kersee said he won’t be at the track for the race.

Sure, he will warm up Felix and Tarmoh. And yes, he will give them some last-minute advice.

But then he will head for the exit.

“I’ll go on a long walk,” Kersee said. “When I come back, I’ll get the news on who did what.”

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BRAZILIAN TODDLER WAKES UP AT HIS FUNERAL

June 25, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

I quickly browsed this story last week, but didn’t pay much attention to it because I thought that it was not true. It is real though. I’ve seen it a couple of more times and this time it held my attention.

ENUGU, NIGERIA, BECOMES HAVEN FOR FRESH GANGLAND (CULT) VIOLENCE

June 20, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

When I was growing up in Enugu, Nigeria, violent gangs existed, but deadly clashes were no where near as rampant as they are now. Gangs would occassionally clash, which would result in beatings, stabbings and rare shootings. If someone died, it was usually an accident. Now, murder seems to be the goal of every single clash.

The serene atmosphere in the coal city Enugu has been shattered in the past few days with an upsurge in cult (gang) related killings that has turned the once lovely city into a haven of gangland violence. New reports show that the cultists now kill, maim and destroy at will. Within the past week, three young men have been cut down in their prime, including the son of a well known owner of Gabby Pharmacy in the Achara layout area of the city.

It was revealed that even family men now sponsor some of these gang members to attck and kill their adversaries. No day passes without a corpse been seen in Enugu and its surrounding areas. More news to come.

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RODNEY KING DEAD AT 47

June 17, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday, authorities and his fiancee said. He was 47.

Police in Rialto, California, received a 911 call from King’s fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, about 5:25 a.m., said Capt. Randy DeAnda. Responding officers found King at the bottom of the pool, removed him and attempted to revive him. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital, DeAnda said.

There were no preliminary signs of foul play, he said, and no obvious injuries on King’s body. Police are conducting a drowning investigation, DeAnda said, and King’s body would be autopsied.

“His fiancee heard him in the rear yard,” he said, and found King in the pool when she went outside.

Kelly was a juror in King’s lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in 1994.

King’s beating after a high-speed car chase and its aftermath forever changed Los Angeles, its police department and the dialogue on race in America.

King was 25 and on parole after a robbery conviction in April 1991. In an interview in 2011, he recalled he had been drinking and was headed home from a friend’s house when he saw a police car following him and panicked, thinking he would be sent back to prison. So he attempted to flee.

“I had a job to go to that Monday, and I knew I was on parole, and I knew I wasn’t supposed to be drinking, and I’m like ‘Oh, my God,’” he told CNN.

He realized he couldn’t outrun the police, but looked for a public place to stop. “I saw all those apartments over there, so I said, ‘I’m gonna stop right there,’” he said. “‘If it goes down, somebody will see it.’”

An amateur cameraman caught the scene as four white police officers struck King more than 50 times with their wooden batons and used a stun gun on him.

King said as the officers beat him, they yelled, “We are going to kill you, n***er,” although the officers denied using racial slurs.

The video shows King cowering on the ground and attempting to crawl away as he is surrounded by a crowd of police officers. Four of them used their nightsticks to strike him.

King was beaten nearly to death. Three surgeons operated on him for five hours.

The video of the beating appeared on national television two days later, focusing attention on the issue of racially-motivated police brutality.

“We finally caught the Loch Ness Monster with a camcorder,” King attorney Milton Grimes said.

Four LAPD officers — Theodore Briseno, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind and Sgt. Stacey Koon — were indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force by a police officer.

But following a three-month trial in the predominantly white Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, three of the officers were acquitted of all charges. The jury, which had all white members, deadlocked on one charge of excessive force against Powell, and a mistrial was declared on that charge.

Powell’s attorney, Michael Stone, said earlier this year the unedited video worked against King and helped prove the officers’ case.

“Most of the nation only saw a few snippets where it’s the most violent,” Stone said. “They didn’t see (King) get up and run at Powell.”

But African-Americans in Los Angeles exploded in outrage. Rioters ran through the streets — looting businesses, torching buildings and attacking those who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The violence was responsible for more than 50 deaths and $1 billion in property damage.

On the third day of rioting, King emerged from seclusion to make a plea: “People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?”

The violence ceased, but the debate did not.

Nearly a year later, the four officers stood trial in federal court on civil rights charges. Two African-Americans were picked for the jury, and King testified. He hedged, however, on whether police used racial slurs during the beating. He told CNN in 2011 that slurs were used, but said he vacillated on the stand because his mother had told him to avoid talking about race.

Koon and Powell were found guilty and sentenced to 30 months in prison. Briseno and Wind were acquitted.

“It was like … I just hope we just get one,” King said. “I hope we just get one on that. If we get one, we’re good. So to get the two, I was really happy.”

King also sued the city of Los Angeles.

“Half of them had no sympathy whatsoever,” Kelly, his fiancee, told CNN earlier this year about her fellow jurors. “… They just didn’t care. Like, ‘He broke the law. He deserved what he got.’ I told them they were crazy. It was about justice for what happened to him. No one deserves to get beat like that.”

The other jurors came around, and King was awarded $3.8 million in damages.

In later years, King had several more run-ins with the law, including a 90-day jail stint in 1996 for a hit-and-run involving his wife at the time. On the 20th anniversary of the beating in 2011, he was pulled over and ticketed for a minor traffic violation.

“The trouble that (people) see me in is a part of my life that I’m working on,” he said in 2011. “I’ll always have an issue when it comes to alcohol. My dad was an alcoholic. The addiction part is in my blood. What I’ve learned to do is arrest my addiction — arrest it myself, so I don’t get arrested.”

In 2008, King appeared on the VH1 reality show “Celebrity Rehab.” He also released a memoir, “The Riot Within,” in which he describes his difficult upbringing and his reflections on the beating and its aftermath.

The ranks of Los Angeles police are much more diverse than they were at the time of King’s beating. Changes have also been made — some compelled by the courts — in the way certain neighborhoods are patrolled and how complaints are handled.

King said earlier this year he has forgiven the officers who beat him.

“Yes, I’ve forgiven them, because I’ve been forgiven many times,” he said. “My country’s been good to me … This country is my house, it’s the only home I know, so I have to be able to forgive — for the future, for the younger generation coming behind me, so … they can understand it and if a situation like that happened again, they could deal with it a lot easier.”

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SHOOTING AT APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR AUBURN UNIVERSITY, 3 DEAD, 3 WOUNDED

June 10, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL 1 Comment

Three people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting during a party at an apartment complex near Auburn University, Alabama authorities said Sunday. Among the dead were two Auburn students who had been on the football team.

A manhunt was underway Sunday for suspected gunman, identified by police as Desmonte Leonard, 22, of Montgomery, Ala.

The dead were Edward Christian, 20, a football player who was out this season due to injuries; Ladarious Phillips, 20, a former football player; and Demario Pitts, 20, of Auburn.

The shooting happened late Saturday night at the University Heights apartments, a large complex near campus where many of Auburn University’s students and athletes live. Leonard is suspected of pulling a gun after a fight broke out, shooting six before fleeing, Auburn Police Chief Tommy Dawson said at a news conference on Sunday.

When police arrived, Christian was found dead on the sidewalk. Phillips and Pitts were transported to the hospital, where they later died.

Among the three wounded is John Robertson, 20, who is fighting for his life after being shot in the head, Dawson said at a news conference on Sunday afternoon. Xavier Moss, 19, was released from the hospital and Eric Mack, 20, was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Police believe Leonard drove away from the scene in a white Chevrolet Caprice, which was later found abandoned.

“I don’t believe it was targeted. It was a fight and someone got carried away,” Dawson said of the shooting. “I don’t like the word random when it comes to shootings, but it was a fight that obviously got out of hand.”

AP Photo/Auburn Police Division

This undated photo provided by the Auburn Police Division shows Desmonte Leonard, 22, of Montgomery, Ala., the suspect wanted for fatally shooting three people, including two former Auburn University football players, and wounding another three people during a party at an apartment complex near the school.

Asked about connections to the football team, Dawson said, “The only connection to the football team is that they are the victims of a brutal shooting. Sometimes the young men get a bad rap, I feel, but they’re the victims today.”

Courtesy of Auburn University

Ladarious Phillips, an Auburn University student and former football player, was among those killed at a shooting near the university.

“This is a sad, sad day for everyone associated with the entire Auburn family. I am devastated by the passing of three young men, including two that I personally knew in Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips and my heart goes out to their families,” Auburn coach Coach Gene Chizik said in a statement. “My thoughts and prayers are with their families and all of the victims involved in this tragic incident. Nobody should ever have to endure such unimaginable grief, and we will love and support the victims’ families during this terribly difficult time. We have a lot of people on our football team that are hurting right now and we’re going to do everything we can to help them get through this.”

Turquorius Vines, 23, told The Associated Press he was at the pool party Saturday evening with one of his friends, Pitts. He said he and Pitts were approached by two other men who started arguing with them over a woman.

Courtesy of Auburn University

Auburn University student Edward Christian was among those killed at a party near the university on Saturday night. He had played football but was out due to a back injury.

Vines said he punched one of the men, while Pitts hit both of the men over the head with a bottle. Either one or both of the two men then started shooting, he said. He said his friend was shot and killed, while two others also were hit by gunfire. Vines said he had never before seen the men who he had been arguing with.

“It’s like I lost a lung,” Vines said. “I don’t know how I’m going to survive this.”

Mack, the wounded player, is a junior offensive lineman from St. Matthews, S.C. He played in five games last season. Chizik said Mack was expected to make a full recovery.

Courtesy of Auburn University

Auburn University football player Eric Mack was among the three wounded at a party Saturday night.

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CHURCH EXPLOSION IN JOS, NIGERIA: 5 KILLED AND 48 INJURED

June 10, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Jos, Nigeria (CNN) – At least five people were killed in a car bomb blast that leveled a church in Jos, Nigeria, during services Sunday.

The attack injured at least 48 people, hospital officials said.

Witnesses said a suicide car bomber drove toward several churches in the area before plowing into the Christ Chosen Church of God.

Bruised and bloodied parishioners emerged from the rubble after the blast.

There appeared to be a large number of casualties, including children.

Young people set up checkpoints nearby after an angry crowd drove security officers away from the church.

Many questioned how the car made it past government security checkpoints and into the area.

A March car bomb attack outside a Catholic church in Jos killed six people, according to officials.

In December, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in several northern states following a series of Christmas Day attacks on churches.

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CHURCH BOMBED IN BAUCHI STATE, NIGERIA BY SUICIDE BOMBER: BREAKING NEWS

June 3, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Not again. When will insanity stop? We can’t keep killing each other. News coming indicates that a bomb has been detonated at a Church in Bauchi,Bauchi State, Nigeria. According to the report, a car loaded with a bomb sped into Harvest Church, Bauchi while church service was in progress and exploded. It is reported that over eleven people have so far been confirmed dead,while several were injured

There was also a suspected suicide bomber among the dead.

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FIRST TUPAC SHAKUR NOW MARILYN MONROE, GOING ON TOUR HOLOGRAM STYLE

June 3, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Move over, Tupac, Marilyn Monroe is stealing your spotlight! Watch video of Tupac Shakur’s hologram performance on stage with Snoop Dog below…

The blonde icon is set to become the next celebrity hologram to have her very own concert tour — despite being dead for decades.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” starlet, who died in 1962, will be headlining a “live” musical, tentatively titled “Virtual Marilyn Live — A Musical Celebration of the Birth of the Pop Icon” via hologram.

Using the same technology that brought Tupac Shakur back to life at this year’s Coachella music festival, the tour plans to reach audiences that may not be familiar with the Hollywood bombshell. Becky Altringer, managing director of the company that is putting the concert together, tells The Hollywood Reporter that the tour is designed to create a whole new world for Marilyn fans and to launch her as “a performer, spokesperson, cultural pundit and computer avatar.”

Other deceased celebrities who have been rumored to come “back to life” via hologram tours include Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes from TLC and the legendary Bob Marley. Both rumors have been shot down by both former band members and family members of the deceased celebrities, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen to others. Some names that could have massively successful hologram tours include Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, and even Elvis Presley.

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NIGERIAN CARGO PLANE CRASHES IN ACCRA, GHANA

June 3, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

A Nigerian cargo plane attempting to take off from the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana crashed on Saturday night, killing 10 people and injuring an unspecified number of others.

The plane smashed through the airport’s fence before slamming into cars and a bus loaded with passengers on a nearby street, officials said. The crash happened in an area near the Kotoka International Airport, which is located near newly built high-rise buildings, hotels and the country’s Defence Ministry.

Witnesses claim that the plane crashed through the fence that runs around the airport before hitting the bus, the Associated Press reports. At least 10 people were killed in the crash, all in vehicles on the road struck by the plane, said Billy Anaglate, spokesman for the Ghana Fire Service. Ambulances took the injured to nearby hospitals. An official at the airport’s control tower declined to comment when reached Saturday night, saying no one was available to discuss the crash. Police officials also refused to immediately comment. Police and soldiers quickly cordoned off the neighborhood where the plane crashed.

Local television showed images of the plane lying across a road with its tail damaged as the flight crew escaped were able to receive help from emergency responders. Witnesses claim that the plane belonged to Allied Air Cargo. The name and symbols on the aircraft matched those of a Nigerian air freight company based out of Lagos.

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BOXER JOHNNY TAPIA DEAD AT 45: ESCAPED DEATH 4 TIMES

May 29, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

My love affair with boxing run’s so deep and this is why my heart breaks when true warriors die. These warriors are so rare in our lives. Unfortunately, many of these men lead very troubled lives. Johnny Tapia was no exception. He was such a great fighter. Read the story below:

(CNN) — The crazy life of Johnny Tapia — a five-time world champion boxer who once wrote that he had been “raised to fight to the death” — ended this week at age 45.

“A family member came home, found him deceased and called us,” Officer Robert Gibbs, an Albuquerque, New Mexico, police spokesman, said Monday.

Tapia’s body was found Sunday night at his home in Albuquerque. Foul play is not suspected; an autopsy and toxicology tests will be carried out, Gibbs said.

In his autobiography, “Mi Vida Loca: The Crazy Life of Johnny Tapia,” the fighter says that his father was murdered before he was born and that he was eight when he saw his mother murdered.

“She got stabbed 22 times with an ice pick and raped,” he told “In This Corner With James Smith” in a 2004 interview.

Relatives raised him and he followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, who had himself been a boxer.

“I was raised as a pit bull,” he wrote in the book, which was co-authored by Bettina Gilois. “Raised to fight to the death.”

Tapia started boxing at age 9 and had his first amateur fight at 11. In 1988, he began is professional career, which was interrupted by bouts outside the ring with substance abuse followed by treatment in rehab centers.

“Four times I was declared dead. Four times they wanted to pull life support. And many more times I came close to dying.

“But I have lived and had it all. I have been wealthy and lost it all. I have been famous and infamous. Five times I was a world champion. You tell me. Am I lucky or unlucky?”

In 1990, he had just won a $1 million commercial for Pepsi when he “tested dirty and got kicked out,” losing his boxing license, said his wife and manager, Teresa Tapia, in the same 2004 interview.

“That’s when I met him,” she said. “He was at his lowest, he was living on the streets. He did everything illegal that he could to make money. That was his life.”

Fed up, she said, she locked him in her apartment, whose windows were covered with bars, and refused to let him out for six weeks while he broke free of the drugs’ grip.

“All my goal is to see Johnny reach this ripe old age,” she said. “I mean, I’ll take him until 80 or 90 years old.”

Tapia claimed two Golden Gloves awards in addition to professional titles in several weight classes.

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DONNA SUMMER DISCO DIVA DEAD AT 63

May 17, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL 1 Comment

Legendary disco diva Donna Summer has died, a spokesman confirmed to TheWrap.

The “Hot Stuff” and “Last Dance” singer was 63.

No cause of death was given, but TMZ reports Summer had been battling cancer.

In a statement, Summer’s family praise the singer’s religious faith.

“While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy,” the statement reads. “Words truly can’t express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time.”

Bing: Listen to Donna Summer’s biggest hits

Summer’s soaring mezzo-soprano voice and catchy lyrics provided the soundtrack to the 1970s, making it nearly impossible to think of many of that decade’s cultural touchstones, be they bellbottoms or disco balls, without calling to mind her hit singles.

Among the hits that helped cement Summer’s legacy were “She Works Hard for the Money,” “Bad Girls” and “Dim All the Lights.” She would earn five Grammy awards and 17 nominations over the course of her career.

In a 2003 interview with The New York Times, Summer said she felt that her propulsive, candy-coated dance numbers captured the national zeitgeist of the 1970s and helped people turn the page on the chaotic social upheaval of the previous decade.

“In that period people were in a dance mood,” Summer said. “They wanted to be lifted up, they wanted to have fun, they didn’t want to think.”

Photos: In Memoriam: Donna Summer

”You were coming out of the Vietnam war, the 60′s , the protest era, and I was coming out of it as well,” she added. ”I think people were just in a different mindset. When dance music came out, with that beat and that movement, it was a switch.”

Yet while Summer may have downplayed her political significance, one group who embraced her music was the gay community. Emboldened by the Stonewall Riots, Summer’s anthems of empowerment struck a chord with a group that was beginning to agitate for greater political rights and freedoms.

That relationship endured throughout her career, but it did undergo significant strain after reports surfaced that Summer made anti-gay remarks about AIDS victims in the mid-1980s and called the disease divine retribution.

She claimed that she never made the statements and would later sue New York magazine in 1991 for libel when it reprinted the allegations.

In a 1989 letter to an AIDS activist group, Summer wrote, “I was unknowingly protected by those around me from the bad press and hate letters. … If I have caused you pain, forgive me.”

Though Summer and disco were nearly interchangeable, she proved herself to be a musical chameleon, one who survived the end of the Studio 54 era and continued to produce chart-topping songs into the 1980s and beyond.

Over the ensuing three decades, Summer branched into new genres, such as new wave, with her 1980 album “The Wanderer”; swing on her poorly received 1991 album “Mistaken Identity”; and gospel with her 1994 holiday album “Christmas Spirit.”

The singer is survived by her husband, singer and producer Bruce Sudano; their daughters, Brooklyn and Amanda; and Summer’s daughter, Mimi, from a previous marriage.

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CHUCK BROWN DIES: THE GODFATHER OF GO-GO WAS 75

May 17, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

Pulled from the Washington Post By Chris Richards,

Chuck Brown, the gravelly voiced bandleader who capitalized on funk’s percussive pulse to create go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 75.The death, from complications from sepsis, was confirmed by his manager, Tom Goldfogle.Mr. Brown had been hospitalized for pneumonia.

Known as the “Godfather of Go-Go,” the performer, singer, guitarist and songwriter developed his commanding brand of funk in the mid-1970s to compete with the dominance of disco.

Like a DJ blending records, Mr. Brown used nonstop percussion to stitch songs together and keep the crowd on the dance floor, resulting in marathon performances that went deep into the night. Mr. Brown said the style got its name because “the music just goes and goes.”

In addition to being go-go’s principal architect, Mr. Brown remained the genre’s most charismatic figure. On stage, his spirited call-and-response routines became a hallmark of the music, reinforcing a sense of community that allowed the scene to thrive. As go-go became a point of pride for black Washingtonians, Mr. Brown became one of the city’s most recognizable figures.

“No single type of music has been more identified with Washington than go-go, and no one has loomed so large within it as Chuck Brown,” former Washington Post pop music critic Richard Harrington wrote in 2001.

Mr. Brown’s creation, however, failed to have the same impact outside of the Beltway. The birth of go-go doubled as the high-water mark of Mr. Brown’s national career. With his group the Soul Searchers, his signature hit “Bustin’ Loose” not only minted the go-go sound, it spent four weeks atop the R&B singles chart in 1978.

“Bustin’ Loose” was “the one record I had so much confidence in,” Mr. Brown told The Post in 2001. “I messed with it for two years, wrote a hundred lines of lyrics and only ended up using two lines. . . . It was the only time in my career that I felt like it’s going to be a hit.”

It was Mr. Brown’s biggest single, but throughout the 1980s “We Need Some Money,” “Go-Go Swing” and “Run Joe” became local anthems, reinforced by radio support and the grueling performance schedule that put Mr. Brown on area stages six nights a week.

While rap music exploded across the country, go-go dominated young black Washington, with groups including Trouble Funk, Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited (also known as E.U.) following in Mr. Brown’s footsteps.

Mr. Brown performed less frequently in his final years but still took the stage regularly. He would often comment on his golden years in rhyme.

“I’m not retired because I’m not tired. I’m still getting hired, and I’m still inspired,” he said in 2006. “As long as I can walk up on that stage, I want to make people happy. I want to make people dance.”

Charles Louis Brown was born in Gaston, N.C., on Aug. 22, 1936. He never knew his father, Albert Louis Moody, a Marine. He took the surname of his mother, Lyla Louise Brown, a housekeeper who raised her several children in poverty.

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MARY KENNEDY, WIFE OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr., IS DEAD

May 16, 2012 By NGO OKAFOR BLACK MALE MODEL Leave a Comment

(CNN) – Mary Kennedy, from whom Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed for divorce in 2010, is dead, an employee of the Westchester County, New York, medical examiner’s office said Wednesday.

The employee, who declined to give his name, told CNN he would provide no further details about the manner and cause of death.

The family released a statement saying, “We deeply regret the death of our beloved sister Mary, whose radiant and creative spirit will be sorely missed by those who loved her. Our heart goes out to her children who she loved without reservation.”

The Bedford Police Department earlier confirmed they were investigating a possible unattended death at an address owned by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Authorities found a deceased individual inside “an out building” on the property, police said in a statement.

Regarding her marital status at the time of her death, Mary Kennedy wasn’t divorced from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., her family attorney, Kerry A. Lawrence, told CNN.

Details of the couple’s private lives were exposed after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed for divorce in Westchester County on May 12, 2010.

The next evening, according to police records, Bedford police responded to a 911 call. When police arrived at the Kennedy residence they found the couple in an argument over taking their four children to a carnival at St. Patrick’s School.

According to a “domestic incident” report filed by the officer on the scene, “Mr. Kennedy stated that his wife was intoxicated and was acting irrational so he took the children to the carnival to remove them from the situation.”

No one was injured, the report said.

Two days later, Mary Kennedy was arrested for driving while intoxicated. At the time, Bedford Police Lt. Jeff Dickans told CNN that Mary Kennedy was arrested around 9:15 p.m. on May 15, 2010. Dickans said that a Bedford police officer saw Kennedy’s 2004 Volvo swerving onto the curb of Greenwich Road in Bedford and asked her to pull over.

Kennedy had slurred speech, and a blood-alcohol content above 0.08 percent, the legal limit in New York. She was charged with driving while intoxicated.

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Craig Warga/New York Daily News

Hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty was found dead outside his Bronx apartment Thursday.

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