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Rapper DMX pleads not guilty to felony charges

PHOENIX–DMX rapped for reporters outside a Phoenix courtroom July 24 after pleading not guilty to felony charges of theft and identity theft. Then he plugged an album.

Blacks, Hispanics in unison

DALLAS–Don't believe the hype about the Black and Hispanic community at odds with each other, said representatives from at least two civil rights groups. A joint meeting, held at the Non Profit Community Center by the Dallas branches of the Southern

‘Fly-jock’ lands in town

Tom Joyner, the self-proclaimed “hardest working man in radio,” was in Chicago July 25 doing a V-103 radio station promotion at MacArthur’s Restaurant, 5412 W. Madison Ave., on the West Side. Dozens of people lined up at the popular soul

Bush OKs execution of Black GI

WASHINGTON - President Bush could have commuted the death sentence of Ronald A. Gray, a former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders. But Bush decided that Gray's crimes were so repugnant that execution was the only just punishment.

Violinist graduates to bigger, better things

Lee England Jr. is a man of many musical talents. He sings. He plays the bass, French horn, percussion, trumpet, keyboard and viola.

SCLC president: Dr. King left a plan for success

NEW ORLEANS–Charles Steele Jr., president of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s old organization, said the slain civil rights leader left behind a “business plan” for Black economic success. Opening the Southern Christian Leadership Conf

Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim sued over undelivered books

NEW YORK–A New York publisher is suing Foxy Brown and Lil’ Kim, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered.

Jazz great, Johnny Griffin dies in France

PARIS--Jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played with America’s greats from Thelonious Monk to Lionel Hampton but chose to live in France, died hours before a concert, his agent said Saturday. He was 80.

Joe Jackson turns 80

So what is a celebrity dad to do on the occasion of his 80th birthday? Throw a party at a swank downtown nightclub and arrive in a stretch limo with a swarm of young, female admirers Velcroed all over him? That is how Joe Jackson, father of the famous Jac

Details missing from Obama's Social Security plan

WASHINGTON–Barack Obama's bid to place a new Social Security tax on very high incomes is either a bold or foolhardy plan, depending on who critiques it.
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