REGGAE DANCEHALL STAR VYBZ KARTEL FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER

March 14, 2014

Dancehall star Vybz Kartel (real name Adidja Palmer) has been found guilty of murder. Via The Jamaica Gleaner Palmer and three of his four co-accused have been found guilty of the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams marking the end to a keenly watched trial that has lasted for 65 days.  The eleven-member jury began deliberating at 3:45 p.m.  Initially, the eleven-member jury deliberated for 1 hour and 53 minutes before returning a 10-1 verdict.  They were sent back to reconsider because the verdict […]

UK EVENT: ‘WHAT MEN WANT FROM WOMEN IN RELATIONSHIPS SEMINAR’…..

March 13, 2014

[Thanks Melissa] *Crying with laughter* “award winning relationship expert” *blank stare* – When did Des O’Connor win an award for his relationship advice??? Are we talking about the same Des O’Connor who once advised black women to: “Sit by the toilets in a night club if you want to find a good black man” Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. And I see DJs  Buppy C (Talk about a blast from the past. I haven’t heard or seen his name for years)  and Mistri are both on the […]

UK POLITICS: LABOUR BLACK NETWORK TO BE LAUNCHED IN LONDON

March 13, 2014

Via The Afro News The Labour Black Network will be launched in London on 25th March 2014. The event to be held at the Wilson Room, Portcullis House, from 18:00 to 20:00, will be hosted by Diane Abbott, Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. It will be attended by the current Black Labour MPs. David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham will address participants. The Labour Black Network is a newly emerging membership organisation to support African and Caribbean […]

UK TV: THIS MORNING – “I THOUGHT ONLY PEOPLE IN AFRICA GOT HIV”

March 12, 2014

Peter Schofield and Holly Willoughby talk to Rachel Dilley, a mother-of-three who says she never dreamed she was at risk of HIV – because ‘only African people could get it’. “Growing up the only thing I’d seen was an advert on TV in Africa of African people dying of AIDS and I thought it was a disease you caught in that COUNTRY,  and that only they caught it. I didn’t realise that you know a white person had ever had it.” Is […]

PRESIDENT OF FRANCE HIRES EXPERT IN ‘GANGSTA RAP’ TO HELP WRITE HIS SPEECHES

March 12, 2014

This is just pure unadulterated FOOLISHNESS. I have seen and heard it all now. Via The Daily Mail The president of France is to try to turn around his abysmal approval ratings by hiring an expert in gangsta rap music to write his speeches. Francois Hollande has appointed Pierre-Yves Bocquet to help him spice up his speeches, which are widely considered to be boring. A graduate of France’s top school for civil servants, Mr Bocquet is well qualified for the role. But […]

UK NEWS: JOURDAN DUNN ANNOUNCED AS THE FACE OF NEW ‘NEXT’ VENTURE

March 10, 2014

I don’t usually pay much attention to developments in the world of fashion but it’s Jourdan Dunn. High Street retailer NEXT has announced that black British model Jourdan Dunn is the face of their new venture LABEL which will launch on Thursday. LABEL will sell brands including Warehouse, Adidas, Converse, Oasis, Hobbs, L K Bennett, and Glamourous. If Jourdan had not been discovered shopping in Primark all those years ago I wonder what she would be doing now. Congratulations Jourdan.

BBC LONDON – DOTUN ADEBAYO SHOW: ARE BLACK MEN DISPROPORTIONATELY INVOLVED IN NIGHTCLUB VIOLENCE?

March 10, 2014

Dotun Adebayo asks are young black men disproportionately involved in nightclub violence? Guests include Mr. Play, DJ Spoony and Sara Myers. Last night’s discussion is in response to Afia Asha’s controversial Facebook post that blamed young black men for the violence in south London nightclubs. Afia who is the bar managing director for the Brixton Fridge Bar wrote: “Unless and until young black people (18-35) learn to conduct themselves in a civil manner then the night time economy will be closed or severely […]

UK TV: BIG REUNION STARS DAMAGE SET TO APPEAR IN ‘FLY ON THE WALL’ TV SERIES

March 9, 2014

Digital Spy reports that hit R&B group Damage (minus Coree Richards) will star in their own fly on the wall television series. Jade Jones, Andrez Harriett, Noel Simpson and Rahsaan J Bromfield – will be followed by cameras as they try to continue their musical comeback. Damage apparently also want to use the TV show to give viewers a glimpse inside their private lives, and to ‘give people who don’t get a chance to come into this industry a foot up’. ‘It’s […]