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Best of Soul Train Episode 269 1978-79

Feb 28th, 2010 | By Staff Writer | Category: The Best of Soul Train

Caught another Best of Soul Train episode which featured Grammy Award winning Peabo Bryson headlining along with Stargard.
Pop-music and children are very familiar with Mr. Bryson through him hooking up with Disney in 1992 and 1993 and dropping two pop-culture hits. “Beauty and the Beast” was a duet with Céline Dion that won the [...]



Richard Wright 1908-1960

Feb 3rd, 2009 | By Staff Writer | Category: Black History Month, Headlines

Bigging up another important Black man in American History in honor of Black History Month.
Today we are gonna holla at Richard Wright, who is the author of the autobiographical “Black Boy,” which was the first book that I ever read from cover to cover in my entire life. I was fourteen years old, and [...]



Girl Shot Leaving West Side Party

Jan 4th, 2009 | By Staff Writer | Category: National and Local News

A 15 year old give was shot leaving a house party on the West side early Saturday morning per the Sting Ray news group.
The girl was leaving a home in the 1000 block of South Albany with friends around 2 a.m. when they saw a fight start outside, Chicago Police said.
The girl and her friends [...]



Newborn girl found abandoned in Uptown

Dec 24th, 2008 | By Staff Writer | Category: National and Local News

CHICAGO - A woman opened her apartment door to leave and almost tripped over a newborn girl that someone abandoned in an unheated hallway during the bitter cold Monday night in the North Side’s Uptown neighborhood.
At 8:35 p.m., the infant was discovered outside the woman’s apartment door, which is inside the vestibule of the building [...]



Four men rape lesbian, leave her naked in San Francisco Bay area

Dec 24th, 2008 | By Staff Writer | Category: National and Local News

FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday.
Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a [...]



Obama team, Congress fleshing out stimulus bill

Dec 20th, 2008 | By Staff Writer | Category: National and Local News

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—- President-elect Barack Obama’s team and congressional staff are scrambling to come up with details of a plan to pump up the droopy economy with $650 billion or more in government spending over the next few years.
The aides met in the basement of the Capitol on Friday to devise ways to pump [...]



Teens Parish In Car Accident

Dec 16th, 2008 | By Staff Writer | Category: National and Local News

CHICAGO - Arthur Cepulcha, 18, of the 8200 block of South Nashville Avenue in Burbank and Adam Skora, also 18, of the 5500 block of West 85th Street were killed about 9:30 p.m. in the 6600 block of West 107th Street. Cepulcha was driving, authorities said.
Four others were seriously hurt in the single-vehicle crash per the [...]



DJ Special Blend Top 40 Feb 1st 2008

Dec 14th, 2008 | By Staff Writer | Category: DJ Special Blend's Top 40

This is DJ Special Blend from Chicago. What’s up America and the world! I promise that I was just sitting down to make the chart template over, but once I saw it up in lights I had to fill in the blanks. You never catch me admitting this very often… but its been [...]



U-Hype XXXIX featuring Omega, Ready 45 and Robin Steel, Mecca

Dec 14th, 2008 | By Staff Writer | Category: Hip-Hop Podcast
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New U-Hype episode? Yea… a new U-Hype episode!
We head off the show tonight with my boy Omega droppin’ yet another bomb on us Chicago. He’s kickin’ it with his boy Cuban Link and they got the brand new heat. Don’t sleep on “This Is How We Roll” as it attacks the [...]