In the US, with a criminal justice system that has wrongly convicted people over and over again, I am outraged that we still use capital punishment. I studied criminology as an undergraduate student at Hampton University and some more as a graduate student at Morehead State University. The one thing that I continued to find [...]

Alexis Simpson is the 19-year-old Bowie State student who is accused of murdering her 18-year-old roommate, Dominique Frazier. According to various news reports Alexis and Dominique didn’t get along particularly well and after an argument that began over music, a physical altercation began. Those are all the details that I have to share at the [...]

Last Thursday we had Retaliation radio. The topic was: Should you leave the hood after you’ve made it. The topic was inspired by the shooting death of M-Bone, a member of Cali Swag District–the group who brought you “Teach Me How To Dougie.” Please listen to the show. It’s a good one. Thanks to Shaka [...]

I just read on a couple of blogs that Kanye recently admitted to contemplating suicide. I want to make a clarification that contemplating or thinking about suicide is not the act itself. Artists are emotional creatures by nature. We experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Things that a non-emotional person sees [...]

According to www.msnbc.com, a body recently found is likely to be missing teen, 17 year old, Chelsea King. Chelsea was a straight A student who’d gone missing 5 days prior.  John Albert Gardner, 30, was arrested on suspicion of rape and murder. To this I say, be as careful as you can when you see [...]

Though the cause of death of 32 year old actress, Brittany Murphy has not been confirmed, reports are surfacing that Brittany appeared to be rail thin in the weeks prior to her death (MSNBC). Magazines have gone so far as to say that the chose not to run photos of the actress because she didn’t [...]

Its being reported that actress Brittany Murphy, 32, died today after going into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived. Cedar Sinai hospital recorded the time of death at 10:04am. No information has been released on the cause of death. I remember Brittany from her great role in 8 Mile–she played alongside Eminem. She [...]

Gone too soon. After what police are saying was some kind of domestic dispute, Chris Henry has died as result of injuries sustained from falling out of a pick up truck. He was a receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. Let’s lift up his family up in prayer. **I know that we all go through stuff [...]

The above photo was captured from MSNBC. Girls as young as 12 are working in a prostitution ring to survive in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria. They do not use any protection, so most of the girls are infected with HIV. They work for pimps who provide protection to them.– MSNBC.COM It’s interesting that someone [...]

Leah is a young mom from the UK who is HIV+. She explains what it is like to have a child and how they’ve been treated. Support and Respect the worldwide fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS. Today is World AIDS Day!

Today is World AIDS Today and in honor of World AIDS Day we should all wear red in respect and support of those who have long been fighting for a cure for HIV/AIDS, for those who have lost their lives to AIDS, and for those who are living with HIV/AIDS today. People think that AIDS [...]

I recently came across a report out of the Guardian newspaper that says that US gunmakers are going after America’s youth in an attempt to bolster gun sales. Yeah, you read that right! GUNMAKERS going after OUR YOUTH! Shouldn’t there be a law somewhere against that? According to the article I read, youth will be [...]