New Edition Miniseries to Air in January on BET

Elijah Kelley, Luke James, Algee Smith, Keith Powers, Bryshere Y. Gray, and Woody McClain star in The New Edition Story miniseries.

BET will host the 3-night miniseries chronicling the ups and downs of legendary music group New Edition from their humble beginnings in Boston to individual solo success and everything in between. 

 

New Edition Back in the Day... 

Summertime is Almost Over...

                                      Happy Back to School Time !

Kids are going back to school and parents all over the country are sighing in relief that the summer season is finally over!

 

                           

 

Parents, what are you going to do for yourself, now that school is back in session?

Passionate Speech Given at this Year's BET Awards

Jesse Williams accepted the Humanitarian Award during the 2016 BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

BET CEO Debra Lee presented his award “for his continued efforts and steadfast commitment to furthering social change.”

34 year-old Williams, who plays Dr. Jackson Avery on ABC's "Grey’s Anatomy", has been working tirelessly to give a voice to the voiceless in the Black Lives Matter movement. In October 2014, he joined protests in Ferguson, Missouri to protest the shooting of Michael Brown. He was also an actor and executive producer of Stay Woke, a documentary about the movement that premiered in May. He has written extensively on Black Lives Matter and met with President Obama earlier this year to
discuss his humanitarian work.

See his speech below:

After inspiring the crowd, Williams continued his message backstage.

"People are getting more comfortable being political,” Williams told reporters. “We live here, we pay taxes, we should be able to talk about it. Just because I can dunk or act doesn't mean I have to shut the hell up about issues that actually impact me and my people." “We cannot allow the society to separate, to extract from the black community, the best and brightest in a particular genre of expression that makes money for white corporations, and then separate us from the rest of the people. People out here are suffering. People out here are poor and abandoned and unsupported, and just because we get to be here tonight doesn't mean that we've made it.”

 

 

I May Be a Little Late on This One Folks...

Was I asleep for the last few months? This recent internet craze just passed me by!
Two charming young high school students started the trend of the Running Man Challenge
( #RunningManChallenge) and it was picked up by some college ball players at the University of Maryland.  It's about fizzled out by now, but let's see if we can get it going again!!!

My BOOOOOOO! Give me a call BOO!!!!

 

Camp Superstars DeKalb County Parks and Recreation Summer 2016

   We Say Good-Bye to 

The Canceled Shows of 2015 

SlideshowIn Memoriam: Shows We Lost in 2015

Mother Convicted and Sentenced to Life in Prison in the 

Death of Her 5-Year-Old Daughter

 

Jhessye Shockley. at age 5, was killed in 2011

A Glendale, Arizona mother convicted of killing her daughter in 2011 was sentenced to life in prison without parole earlier this year. Jhessye Shockley, who prosecutors said was beaten, neglected and confined to a closet before being dumped in a trash bin in 2011. Click Here and Click Here  to Read the Earlier stories from 2011.

Emotions ran high during the sentencing, as witnesses, many of them relatives, spoke before the court, calling mother, Jerice Hunter a "baby killer" and telling her "burn in hell" and "You will pay this time."

"I know I've been made out to be a horrible person and a monster of a mother," said Hunter during her sentencing. "I've been convicted of a horrible crime, which I most definitely did not commit."
Hunter's daughter, 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley, went missing in October 2011. Detectives never found her body, despite a massive search. But the jury believed there was enough evidence to prove Hunter beat, starved and killed Jhessye.

                                                
                                                              Jerice Hunter

"You know that you did this to her," said Hunter's cousin Lisa Vance, as she addressed Hunter during today's sentencing. “You managed to pull the wool over all our eyes until you completed your task of killing baby Jhessye. To top it off you thought you were actually going to get away with it. Hah. Guess what. The last laugh is on you. I hope you burn in hell for what you did to baby Jhessye."

Hunter was found guilty of the murder in April 2015. During the trial, prosecutors said Hunter killed Jhessye, stuffed her body in a suitcase and dropped it in a dumpster. Hunter's defense attorney had said there's no proof that Jhessye is dead. Officers conducted an extensive search of Jhessye's neighborhood and spent 96 days combing a Phoenix area landfill that failed to yield the remains or anything associated with the little girl.

One homicide detective who worked for years on Jhessye's disappearance said the case still haunts him today.