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Chris Brown is currently on a strenuous press run in support his recently released album, X and he found himself in a Houston nightclub over the weekend. Naturally, when you have the #2 album in the country, you’re around the world in 80 days, but Breezy got a little bit of unwanted attention as a […]

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Joe Sample, one of Jazz music’s most celebrated and legendary pianists, died last Friday as announced by his family on Facebook. He was 75. Sample’s talent for melody and grooves would help expand the boundaries of Jazz and inspired artists of other genres as well.

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Parents will go to extreme lengths to help their children, but this is too far. A Houston dad got arrested last Thursday (June 19) for helping his 14-year-old daughter beat up her classmate.

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Between the close quarters, stale food, and tiny bathrooms, it’s easy to get stressed on an airplane. But no matter how bad it gets, that doesn’t make it okay to threaten to kill somebody because they asked you to turn your phone off.

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The family of Michael Blair, a 26-year-old schizophrenic who was gunned down by police officers last November after they answered a 911 call, is still searching for answers. Their demand for justice has prompted them to release a video of the incident which shows the officers shooting Blair after he apparently lunged at them with […]

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While all eyes are currently on the lean epidemic and how it’s affecting the urban community, a drifting eye needs to shift over to the dead man’s last meal of embalming fluid.

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A 42-year-old Houston middle school teacher faces federal charges for giving one of her students a birthday lap dance.  Felicia A. Smith had no comment when she walked out of a courtroom last Thursday (April 25).

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In Harris County, Texas, a mother is grieving the loss of her 17-year-old son after he was shot and killed by a father who discovered him in his daughter’s bedroom early Thursday morning. The family of Johran McCormick believes that man overreacted, and desperately want an explanation behind the tragic event.

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Bun B and Scarface aren’t the only socially revered Hip-Hop figures in Houston. They paved the way for plenty of notable rappers to make headway after them, especially Slim Thug, who was recently honored with his own day; “Thugga Day,” on February 25.

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Nipsey Hussle will let it be known that he’s a Westsider for life, as if his booming Crenshaw campaign wasn’t enough evidence to convince the general public otherwise.

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If Hip-Hop had an official elder statesman, Bernard “Bun B” Freeman would arguably be the top choice without any second guessing.

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A pair of Black dance instructors traveling with one of their white students got a rude awakening from Houston police over the weekend.