Author: DJ Special Blend from Chicago
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Continuing the countdown to Countdown to U-Hype eXtra Large with U-HypeVIII featuring an interview with my boy Lil’ Matic straight outta Philly. This show was posted exactly three years ago this week. This was the first episode that used that Scarface quote, “You need people like me… “ The funny thing is that this show […]
Lil’ Wayne gave $200,000 to help rebuild his Louisiana childhood playground which was destroyed by hurricane Katrina. This is nothing new for the eight time Grammy nominee, who has been helping to clean up his home town since the day the tragedy struck. Dude is doing a good job setting an example for the shorties […]
GARY – Two bodies were found in a sport-utility vehicle that belongs to a couple who had gone missing after celebrating their wedding anniversary Jan. 10 in a restaurant in Gary, Ind., police said this evening. A construction worker was driving by a small creek near Chase and 33rd Streets at about 4 p.m. Monday […]
The Chicago Suntimes reported that the family of 16 month old Benjamin Kingan was all set to bury him, when the Lake County coroner determined Benjamin was the victim of a homicide. The funeral was canceled after an autopsy by the Lake County coroner determined Benjamin was the victim of a homicide — allegedly fatally […]
Ain’t no story behind it. I’m just saying that I wanna hit that. Oh yes, she’s in the news this week due to her role in Seven Pounds, hosting Saturday Night Live and the part she is gonna play in the inauguration this week. She’s talented, gorgeous and probably really smart and a great person. […]
Latino Hip-Hop superstar B-Real is set to drop a solo CD on February 24, 2009 per HipHopGlaxy.com. B-Real is the lead vocalist from Hip-Hop honored Cypress Hill. Cypress Hill has sold more than 17 million albums worldwide, including more than 11 million records in the U.S. alone. The group has garnered 15 multi-platinum, platinum and […]
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [Applause]
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.