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UPDATE: At least 51 killed as tornado tears through Oklahoma
NBC News: At least 51 people have died after a monster tornado roared through...
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19 Things Every HBCU Grad Knows: Because you learn quickly that it’s nothing like A Different World. At all.
Which were the most true for you?...
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“Got caught up in the moment, thank goodness Khyati is okay.”
- Miguel
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Dwyane Wade grants girl’s wish, shows up at her senior prom
(Photo via NBCMiami.com)
Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade granted a South Florida...
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Powerball jackpot soars to $600 million
(Photo: Erik S. Lesser / EPA)
If you have two bucks and a dream, Powerball has a game for you.
The...
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George Michael was airlifted to a hospital yesterday after he was involved in a car crash. Michael suffered a head injury, though his...
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Did this HuffPost reporter just try to come for @bellhooks?
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From The Rachel Maddow Show:
A look at the U.S. budget deficit by year.
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Leno’s ‘Pumpcast’ singing couple insists it wasn’t staged
(Photo: TODAY)
Monifa and Will Sims became Internet sensations after “The Tonight...
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To celebrate becoming the 12th state to legalize gay marriage, the city of Minneapolis lit the I-35W bridge with rainbow colored lights last...
President Obama to Morehouse: “Be the Best Husband to Your Wife, or Your Boyfriend, or Your Partner”
President Obama delivered an incredible speech to Morehouse men. A speech that was inclusive, realistic and inspiring.
Happy Birthday, Grace “No Man Can Turn Down This P***y” Jones
Today the performance art icon turns 65. As Grace Jones once said, “Feeling like a woman, looking like a man…” — Grace was gender-bending before it was popular, especially for a black female artist from Jamaica.
Check out one of Grace’s classic moments below… seriously, Strangé needed her own spin-off!
Donna Summer Passed Away One Year Ago Today
It has been exactly one year since Donna Summer became the queen of disco heaven. Donna is truly missed and her songs are still on heavy rotation on my playlist.
I love the picture above — anyone who perfects the hand-to-face pose is a true icon! Check out the Lady of the Night emoting to “Love to Love You Baby.”
Twenty Years Ago the No. 1 Album in the Country Was…
This week in 1993, the soundtrack of the Bodyguard would start its final three weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album would rock number one for the last three weeks of May, totaling 20 weeks at the top of the chart.
Side note: Was I the only one mesmerized by Whitney’s array of headpieces in the film? The bejeweled waterfall really needs to make a comeback!
Best performance of “I Have Nothing” below. Sing, Whitney …
‘Clay Cane Live,’ Episode 70: ‘Scandal,’ Stop and Frisk and More
Mark Corece, Damion West and J’Nara Corbin were all in the studio — we talked stop and frisk, Scandal and our always animated Love Above the Groin segment. Thanks to all of our listeners and callers for helping us rock 70 shows!
Click on the red button below to listen.
Twenty Years Ago Today the No. 1 Song in the Country Was …
Remember how the first single from a Janet Jackson album always included a long-form video with Damita teasing her dancers with a tape? ”That’s the Way Loves Goes” was the last video with this storyline and the song was a huge hit. On May 15, 1993 the song hit number one, making it her sixth chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100. The song rocked number one for eight weeks and earned Janet a Grammy for Best R&B song in 1994.
By the way, what is up with Jennifer Lopez’s accent? Did René tell her, “We need more Latina!”
Here’s to a classic!
Thirty Years Ago Today the No. 1 Song in the Country Was …
Michael Jackson ruled the world in 1983 and exactly thirty years ago he scored his fifth no. 1 with “Beat It.” The red leather jacket, the iconic dance moves (choreographed by the late, great Michael Peters who won a Tony for Best Choreography for Dreamgirls), the curl in the front — MJ was king.
Check out the most famous performance of the song where he debuted the Moonwalk — at Motown 25.
“I Should’ve Known You’d Know Where to Find the Boys and the Booze!”
Tell it like it is, Joan!
These 11-Year-Olds Are Metal As F***
There is a metal band in Brooklyn called Unlocking The Truth that is made up of three 11-year-olds. They make every band in the nu-metal scene look like total garbage. Not that that was difficult.
These kids have some seriously dope metally riffs and breakdowns. Not sure when they have time to come up with those in between doing homework and…I don’t know, what do 11-year-olds do these days? We have no idea. Play Pokemon?
Yo, little dudes. Wanna play the next show we put on? Offer is on the table. One catch: You gotta show us how to beat this last level on Bioshock Infinite.
Click Read More to see their videos.
20 Years Ago the No. 1 Dance Song in the Country Was …
“Show Me Love” by Robin S.! Exactly 20 years ago, the club hit peaked at number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Play Chart.
Don’t you just love the video? A ’90s kind of gal in a hot red dress — clearly sexually frustrated — trying to keep her virtue in the club, but by the end … she found someone to show her love! Plus, you can’t forget Robin’s bouquet of hair with one track flowing down the side of her face like a melted vinyl record. Oh! And the drag queens lip-synching for their lives - shout out to my old neighbor who yelled at the trade, “Those is men! And don’t act like you knew ‘cause you already said they was fine!”
Listen to Last Night’s ‘Clay Cane Live’ with Christina Crawford
Christina Crawford is the adopted daughter of the late, great Joan Crawford who became an international sensation with her book Mommie Dearest. Starting today, the documentary Surviving Mommie Dearest is playing at the Snapple Theater Center in Manhattan - click here to buy tickets. I only hope those iconic hats above are presented in the show!
Last night Ms. Crawford was a guest on Clay Cane Live (it took everything in me to not call her Tina, Dahling…). Click on the red button below to listen. Plus, we talk Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, the Mister Cee controversy and more.
The Hip-Hop Closet and the Shaming of Mister Cee
Check out my latest article for theGrio.com on the Mister Cee controversy.
“If Cee is gay, bisexual or doesn’t believe in labels, I know many like him: A 46 year-old black man who didn’t grow up with the affirmations of today, plus the restraints of hip-hop. Twenty years older than Frank Ocean, over a decade older than Jason Collins; Cee and many in his generation do not possess the tools to identify under the LGBTQ umbrella. Mister Cee is imprinted to be closeted.”
Click here for the full article.
“Become the Image of Your Own Imagination…”
Check out RuPaul in 1993, breaking down some knowledge to Arsenio Hall.
Best quote: “When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you can ever do.”
