Judge Limits Jackson Siblings' Attendance at Wrongful Death Trial

Family is suing AEG Live because they hired, retained and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray

2013-04-30

Alan Duke CNN

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Just one of Michael Jackson's brothers and sisters can sit in the courtroom at one time in the family's wrongful death suit against AEG Live, a judge ordered Tuesday. Read the complete article

Q&A: Tyree Harris Talks His New Album ‘Financial Aid’

Local artist discusses institutional inequities of college and how they are hurting the future workforce

2013-04-25

Bruce Poinsette Of The Skanner News

Tyree Harris is releasing his second full length album “Financial Aid: The Trials and Tribulations of the 21st Century College Student.” Read the complete article

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BOOK REVIEW The Lace Wig Bible: How to Style, Care & Maintain Lace Wigs

An encyclopedic tome containing everything you need to know about maintaining a perfect faux-do but were afraid to ask

2013-04-25

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

Help has arrived for ladies languishing in the latter category in the person of beauty guru Morgan Gantt, a sister with her finger on the pulse when it comes to solving any sort of hair care nightmares. Read the complete article

Public Enemy Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Other inductions include Rush, Randy Newman, Heart, Albert King and Donna Summer

2013-04-19

CNN Staff

(CNN) -- Singer Harry Belafonte Jr., praised Public Enemy for changing "everything about the emerging urban musical force called rap." Read the complete article

Music Release for One of a Kind Drumline

The show features vocalist Edna Vazquez with bilingual band No Passengers

2013-04-17

Of The Skanner News

Vancouver Washington's own One of a Kind Drumline puts out their first CD on April 20, celebrating its first 10 years by throwing a release and scholarship fundraiser concert at Fort Vancouver High School Auditorium, 5700 East 18th Street Vancouver, from 8 to 9:15 p.m.  Read the complete article

Reebok Drops Rick Ross Over Date Rape Lyric

Company decided he hadn't shown an ‘appropriate level of remorse’

2013-04-11

Lawrence Crook III CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Hip-hop artist Rick Ross learned Thursday he'd been dumped by the sportswear company Reebok after the company decided he hadn't shown an "appropriate level of remorse" for using lyrics in one of his songs that seemed to allude to raping a woman. Read the complete article

BOOK REVIEW Sugar in the Blood: A Family's History of Slavery and Empire

Over the course of this centuries-spanning opus, we’re treated to a host of colorful characters passing time in and around the author’s ancestral plantation

2013-04-11

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

Although Andrea Stuart was born and raised in the Caribbean, she never knew much about her ethnic heritage growing up. As a curious adult, she started digging around in library archives and was able to trace part of her ancestry as far back as the 17th C. to a white plantation owner of a sugar plantation on Barbados. Read the complete article

LL Cool J's Proud of 'Accidental Racist'

Rapper’s lyrics say he’ll forgive the ‘iron chains’ if you don’t judge his gold chains

2013-04-09

CNN\'s Denise Quan contributed to this report

(CNN) -- LL Cool J's collaboration with Brad Paisley, "Accidental Racist," has kicked up a lot of dust, but the rapper seems to have expected as much. Read the complete article

BOOKS: ‘240 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap’

A socially-progressive guide chock full of common sense suggestions

2013-04-04

Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News

Donnell Tenner has written an opus offering a profusion of solutions. Entitled "240 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap: Action Points for Salvaging the Futures of Black and Latino Students," the book might best be described as a socially-progressive guide chock full of common sense suggestions. Read the complete article

AEG Live to Put Michael Jackson on Trial in His Own Death

Jackson’s doctor was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and is serving a prison sentence

2013-04-02

Alan Duke CNN

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's last concert promoter will defend itself in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the pop icon's family by arguing that Jackson was responsible for his own demise. Read the complete article