Jamaican musician Vybez Kartel freed from prison after 14 years
On July 31, 2024, Vybez Kartel became a free man again after he walked out of prison alongside his other three co-defendants. The Jamaican music star has been in jail since 2011 over the murder of Clive "Lizard" Williams for which they were found guilty by the Jury in a Jamaican court. Vybez Kartel's lawyers have for years argued that his conviction was based on circumstantial evidence on messages exchanged over his Blackberry phone with a discredited witness.
Janelle Mone (Singer, Rapper and Actress)
Full Name: Janelle Monáe Robinson
Profession: Singer, Rapper and Actress
Biography: Janelle Monáe is an American singer and actress whose career started with the release of her demo album The Audition in 2003. She has won the Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award in 2015 and has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards.
She rose to fame properly in 2007 with her EP titled Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase).
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Levenson's Email Wasn't Racist
Well, the pitchforks are already sharpened and the torches lit anyway, so rather than let them go to waste, why not drag another so-called racist before the court of public opinion and see how much ratings-grabbing, head-shaking and race-shaming we can squeeze out of it? After all, the media got so much gleeful, hand-wringing mileage out of Don Sterling and Michael Brown.
The only problem is that Atlanta Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson is no Donald Sterling.
Kendrick Lamar's Beef With Drake and J. Cole, Explained
Things weren’t always this tense between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. On March 25, the former shook the foundation with his uncredited verse on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That,” a cut included on the pair’s freshly released collaborative album “We Don’t Trust You.”
The internet immediately lit up: Lamar’s particularly fiery verse put his issues with other rappers in uncharacteristically plain terms, very clearly taking shots at Drake and J. Cole in response to their song “First Person Shooter,” included on last year’s “For All the Dogs.
Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan
Lions Gate From left to right: Tyler Perry ("Madea"), Alexis Jones ("Lucy"), Cassi Davis ("Aunt Bam"), Tony Grant ("Eric") and Jeffrey Lewis ("George") star in Lionsgate Home Entertainment's Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas.
Every week, we shine a light on a few big, worthy or just plain weird DVD releases.
A Madea Christmas
He built a multimedia empire by writing and directing homespun movies, plays and TV shows in which he frequently stars in drag as the sassy, preachy Mabel “Madea” Simmons.
Medicine: Ambulance Chasers | TIME
An ambulance chaser is a lawyer’s tout (hireling, doctor, nurse, policeman, friend, acquaintance) who persuades an injured person to hire the lawyer to sue for personal damages. The chaser’s enemy is the claim agent who tries to get the injured person to disclaim damages, or take at most a small money settlement. Insurance companies have such agents, and street car companies, railroads, taxicab systems. All cities have their claim agents and ambulance chasers.
Moonstruck (1987): 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades
There weren’t many great romantic comedies in the late 1980s, which made the appearance of Norman Jewison’s Moonstruck a small miracle, like the special, glowing, love-bestowing moon that figures in the movie’s plot. Cher plays Loretta Castorini, a 37-year-old widow who has dutifully agreed to marry a man who’s all wrong for her, Danny Aiello’s stolid Johnny Cammareri. When Johnny is called away to Sicily to tend to his dying mother, he sends Loretta on a mission to connect with his estranged brother.
Mother Teresa and the Kidney Stone
This week the Catholic News Service reported that the cause for the canonization of Mother Teresa could “cross its last hurdle” if the Vatican validated a cure reported by a priest in Guwahati, India, on Sept. 5, the 10th anniversary of the beloved nun’s death. The cure in question, originally reported by the Asian Catholic news agency UCA News, was described as “the disappearance of a half-inch kidney stone in his lower ureter.
National Affairs: CABINET PUDDING | TIME
On the fourth day of March, 1921, Woodrow Wilson, pathetic stood before the Capitol in the last act of his official life. Nearby, the saddened members of his Cabinet stood, saw their leader broken by struggle and paralysis; heard a man they did not admire take the oath of office of President of the U. S. Through their minds must have flashed memories of the glorious days of 1913, when the party of freckle-faced Jefferso and hard-cider Jackson came back to power.
National Affairs: EISENHOWER ON COMMUNISM
GREAT truths,” said Dwight Eisenhower last week at Milwaukee, “can, at times, be startlingly simple.” The great truth Ike had in mind: the opposition of Communism and freedom. Said Ike:
“Communism and freedom . . . signify two titanic ideas, two ways of life, two totally irreconcilable beliefs in the nature and destiny of man. The one—freedom—knows man as a creature of God, blessed with a free and individual destiny, governed by eternal moral and natural laws.