Blog Profile / Chocolate City
| URL : | http://www.chocolatecity.cc/blog/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Ethnicity & Race / African American | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1074 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4.5 | |
| Archived Since: | October 30, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Masterpiece
by Sarah E. Williams OpenSesameCards.com, @OpenSesameCards The Masterpiece by Sarah Williams, founder of Open Sesame Cancer Cards. Releasing the past & embracing what is…I am the master artist of this life..pulling out the paint brushes n pallets that create the picture of what I imagine. I am the master artist of this life. My canvas [...]Show More Summary
Angelina Jolie – Much love after undergoing double mastectomy
Angelina Jolie – Much love after undergoing double mastectomy Much love to all of our beautiful mothers, wives, sisters and daughters that have to make the tough and empowering decision to undergoing a preventive mastectomy. Today the beautiful and talented 37-year-old actress Angelina Jolie announced that on February 2, 2013 she made a very tough [...]Show More Summary
O.J. Simpson – Should his robbery, assault and kidnapping convictions be thrown out?
O.J. Simpson – Should his robbery, assault and kidnapping convictions be thrown out? After four years in prison, of what appeared to have been a pay-back for his non-conviction in the alleged killing of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday trying to get his robbery, assault [...]Show More Summary
WordPress Workshop – How to Build, Search Engine Optimize & Monetize WordPress Websites
Free WordPress Workshop – Learn how to Build WordPress website, Search Engine Optimize and Monetize the websites. WWClick.com, Inc. presents a FREE workshop in which Charles Mombo will lecture on WordPress installation, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & How to Monetize Your Website. When: May 25, 2013 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Where: Chicago Bee Library [...]Show More Summary
Randy Jackson jumps ship – Is ‘American Idol’ sinking?
Randy Jackson of American Idol judge jumps ship - Is 'American Idol' about to sink? On Thursday, Andy Jackson, the last of the original judges of "American Idol," announced that he's voting himself off the program at the end of this season. Along with Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul, the musician and producer was one [...]Show More Summary
Tax ‘Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ – Lauryn Hill Sentenced to Jail for tax evasion
Tax ‘Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ – Lauryn Hill Sentenced to Jail for tax evasion A judge in New Jersey on Monday sentenced hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill to three months in jail for tax evasion after she pleaded guilty last year to failing to pay taxes. According to court documents, Hill, 37-year-old and a mother of [...]Show More Summary
Guys Gone Wild
Dr. Yvonne Kendall is a regular political contributor to ChocolateCity.cc. She earned her doctorate at Stanford University and currently serves time as a professor at a state university in Texas Members of a certain significant segment of this nation’s populace has lost their minds. Reactionaries may send their jerking knee comments to Ann Coulter or [...]Show More Summary
Kiera Wilmot, 16, faces felony charges after science project exploded
Kiera Wilmot, 16-year-old, of Bartow High School in Florida faces felony charges over science project. Kiera Wilmot, 16-year-old, of Bartow High School in Florida was recently arrested, expelled from school and now faces felony charges over her science project. According to the police, Wilmot was charged with making, possessing or discharging a destructive device and [...]Show More Summary
African Immigrants shape Chicago’s business landscape – Want parity in immigration reform
by La Risa Lynch Almaz Yigizaw is the owner of Ethiopian Diamond Restaurant in Chicago. It’s lunch time and Ethiopian Diamond is jumping with customers even as construction crews hammer away doing renovations to the Edgewater restaurant. Owner Almaz Yigizaw credits the restaurant’s success to recreating her grandmother’s recipes that she remembers growing up in [...]Show More Summary
Joanne Chesimard aka Assata Shakur – FBI’s First Most Wanted Female Terrorist
Joanne Chesimard aka Assata Shakur - FBI First Most Wanted Female Terrorist Forty years after the allegedly killing of a New Jersey state trooper, Joanne Chesimard, a convicted fugitive has been named a Most Wanted Terrorist by the FBI. Chesimard also known as Assata Shakur is the first woman ever to make the FBI's Most [...]Show More Summary
Will Pres. Obama Grant Posthumous Pardon to John “Jack” Johnson – First Black World Boxing Champion?
Will Pres. Obama Grant Posthumous Pardon to John “Jack” Johnson - First Black World Boxing Champion? It’s been 100 years since he was racially convicted and imprisoned. The convictions ruined his life. John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion was wrongfully convicted, imprisoned, humiliated and literally destroyed by bogus and [...]Show More Summary
President Obama Phoned ‘black and gay’ Jason Collins to express support
President Barack Obama phoned NBA's Jason Collins. NBC is reporting that President Barack Obama phoned NBA's Jason Collins on Monday to express his support and acknowledge that he was impressed by Collins’ courage. Collins, 34-year-old came out today by stating, “I’m a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I’m black and I’m gay.” Collins made history by becoming [...]Show More Summary
Jason Collins: I’m a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I’m black and I’m gay.
Jason Collins: I’m a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I’m black and I’m gay. Jason Collins, 34-year-old and a 12-year basketball veteran, has come out as the first openly gay male athlete still active in a major American team sport. In the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated, Collins writes, “I’m a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I’m black [...]Show More Summary
Jason Terry resets Celtics’ clock with 9 point in overtime
Jason Terry resets Celtics' clock with 9 point in overtime. New York Knicks’ J.R. Smith's elbow to the face of Jason Terry appears to have been a contributing factor to Terry scoring the Celtics’ last 9 points in overtime, delivering a 97-90 OT victory at the Garden. Terry and his fellow teammates denied the Knicks [...]Show More Summary
Zabba Designs – Trendy African Style Fashion, Dresses, Purses, and Clothing
Zabba Designs' Yellow Ankara and Chiffon African Dress. Photo Credit: Zabba Designs, LLC. A recent analytical survey conducted across the main base of African models and in-vogue designer lovers indicated that 83% of women and well over 75% of females are pretty concerned about the way they look, appear and how others see them. More [...]Show More Summary
Have It Your Damn Way – Burger King to deliver in Chicago, LA, and San Francisco
by Charles Mombo Have It Your Damn Way - Burger King to deliver in Chicago, LA, and San Francisco Early last year Miami-based chain Burger King rolled out delivery in Washington, D.C., Houston, Miami and New York. This week, the chain announced that it is expanding its delivery services to three new metropolitan areas – [...]Show More Summary
Chicago gangs – Should they be treated as terrorists?
by Charles Mombo Chicago gangs – Should they be treated as terrorists? With so much violence and few questions answeredChicago can only wish for a day without gang-related shooting. Although Chicago is one of the cities with the toughest gun laws in the nation, it appears to clamp down only on responsible law-abiding citizens while [...]Show More Summary
Will.I.Am allegedly plagiarized “Rebound” beats – Denies it was deliberate
Will.I.Am allegedly plagiarized “Rebound” beats - Denies it was deliberate. Will.I.Am is seen with his felloe band members of the Black Eyed Peas. Photo credit: blackeyedpeas.com/ DJs Arty and Mat Zo had previously accused Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.I.Am of copyright infringement by plagiarizing the beats of “Rebound,” originally recorded by them and using it [...]Show More Summary
Are wedding bells in the air for John Legend and Chrissy Teigen?
Are wedding bells in the air for John Legend and Chrissy Teigen? It is no secret that John Legend, the multi-talented artist and his beautiful lady model Chrissy Teigen are engaged. What isn't known is how soon they will get married. Well, we do know that Teigen purchased a wedding gown; and, as a matter [...]Show More Summary
Rihanna – First Artist in Billboard’s 20-year History With Ten #1’s
With her song "Stay," Rihanna becomes the first artist in Billboard’s 20-year history with ten #1’s Congratulations to Rihanna for a job well done with her song "Stay”. With “Stay,”featuring Mikky Ekko,'Ree-ree' has become the first artist in the 20-year history of Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart to have 10 No. 1 hits. A [...]Show More Summary