(Street Life City News) Los Angeles Clippers  star point guard Chris Paul is the President of the NBA Players Union, but Lebron James is the best player. Less than an hour before the Miami Heat play the Charolette Bobcats, comments on Donald Sterling’s racist comments.

Speaking to the media, James stated that Sterling’s comments were “unacceptable” if they were in fact true. James then implied that Sterling needs to leave the NBA:

Basketball is huge, obviously the playoffs have been unbelievable, and I hate the fact that something like this has to come out when the playoffs have been unbelievable and the game of basketball continues to grow, but there is no room for Donald Sterling in our league. There is no room for him.

James admitted he would contemplate boycotting games if the President of the Miami Heat made similar comments. Adam Silver succeeded David Stern as NBA Commissioner less than three months ago and James stated that he would need to act quickly:

For a player, I just think…I put my…I can only imagine if a player came out and said something of that stature what would happen to us as players. So, I believe in Adam [Silver], I believe in the NBA and they have to do something and do something very fast and quickly before this really gets out of hand.

Clap for ‘em

Barack Obama To Have Chicago High School Named After Him

Via HuffingtonPost

President Barack Obama will have a new selective enrollment Chicago public high school named after him, his former chief of staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Thursday afternoon.

Barack Obama College Preparatory High School, Emanuel says, will be built on the city’s Near North Side using $60 million in tax-increment financing funds, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Fran Spielman and Lauren Fitzpatrick reported. The school will open in the fall of 2017 with a freshman class of 300 students and will ultimately serve 1,200 students, the mayor said.

The school will be located behind Skinner North Classical School on Chicago Park District property and will help meet what CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett described as a high demand for more of the highly competitive selective enrollment schools in the district, according to WBEZ. The district currently has just 10 citywide and many students who qualify for admission are turned away.

“We must seize every opportunity to ensure our students receive a world-class, 21st century education and that they are able to take advantage of the academic opportunities they have earned,” Emanuel said in a statement. “Year after year, too many of our students who have put in years of hard work are turned away because as a city we haven’t had the capacity to meet their capability and this important investment will help us fix that.”

A number of schools nationwide are already named after Obama, but this would mark the first in the president’s home state of Illinois.

The idea of young black children graduating from Barack Obama High School (or whatever they’re gonna call it) fills our African-American hearts with joy.

(Street Life City News) Lil Boosie, recently released from prison after a five year sentence, is rejoicing for the ending of another torture of his that was seldom known. In an interview with TMZ, the New Orleans rapper speaks on his near lethal relationship with codeine cough syrup drink “sizzurp”.

Sizzurp (also referred to as “lean”) is a drink concoction that involves codeine cough syrup. Back in 2011, Boosie was indicted for allegedly attempting to smuggle sizzurp into the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Boosie informed TMZ “Once you on, it’s hard to get off … it’s damn near impossible.”

While Boosie admits that the drink tastes like Kool Aid, he does reveal that it almost killed him approximately four times. Yesterday (April 23rd), a representative from a leading producer of codeine cough syrup, Actavis informed TMZ that the negative press over the years has influenced the company to stop production of the medication:

Given [recent media attention], Actavis has made the bold and unprecedented decision to cease all production and sales of its Promethazine Codeine product.

ANOTHER incredible teen gets the green light from a host of Ivy League schools. Our young brothas are winning!

Patrick Peoples Gets Accepted Into Seven Top Ivy League Schools

Thousands of students apply to Ivy League schools, but very few are accepted. Wilmington native Patrick Peoples has the distinct honor of getting into seven of them.

Via WECT reports:

Peoples is a senior at the Lyceum Academy of New Hanover High School and said he is thrilled to have been accepted to Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania.

“No one ever expects to get in,” Peoples admitted.

With acceptance rates as low as six percent, just getting into one Ivy League is a huge accomplishment.

“I just wanted to apply,” Peoples explained. “Maybe I’ll get into one, maybe just maybe.”

Patrick’s AP English teacher Catherine Edmonds says Peoples has earned his spot.

“He’s personable, he’s responsible, he has a complete and utter interest of what happens in the world, and he’s bound to make changes,” Edmonds said.

Change is what Peoples hopes to achieve with a degree in public policy and economics.

“I have a big passion for social justice,” Peoples said. “So when I see things that can be fixed or when I see people that don’t have the opportunity that I’ve had, it really makes me want to go up as far as I can and reach back and help people.”

Peoples is also editor in chief of his yearbook and heavily involved in Boy Scouts, student government and the Young Democrats.

In addition to the Ivy league schools, Peoples was also accepted to Duke University, Davidson College, the University of Chicago and was one of two New Hanover High School students to receive the Morehead-Cain Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Peoples is finishing up his college visits and will have to decide where he will study by May 1.

Patrick People recently met up with Kwasi Enin, who was accepted into all Ivy League schools. What an awesome accomplishment for this hard-working young man. Congrats!!!!

Really????

Fourth Graders Caught Selling Pot On Playground

Via NYDailyNews

Even fourth-graders are celebrating legalized weed in Colorado.

Four 10-year-olds were busted for buying and selling pot they stole from relatives, officials at Greeley-Evans School District 6 said after the pre-teens brought smokable and edible forms of the now-legal drug to Greeley’s Monfort Elementary School this week.

One boy sold the green, leafy buds to two other boys and a girl on Monday.

“He sold it to three other fourth graders on the school playground, which resulted in a profit to the young man of $11,” John Gates, director of safety and security for the district, told ABC News.

One of the buyers then brought a weed-laced treat on Tuesday in an effort to trade the edible for the pure pot.

Don’t think this is the type of education that parents want their kids to get.

Another student alerted school officials to the schoolyard dealings.

Both children apparently took the drugs from their respective grandparents. As of Jan. 1, pot is legal to buy in Colorado for adults over 21.

“This could not have happened had they secured their marijuana,” Gates said. “Nothing good’s going to come from having 10-year-olds find it, use it or take it to school.”

The kids are likely to be suspended for a “signifcant” amount of time, Gates told ABC.

Suspension is better than felony charges.

Much of Colorado’s experiment with legalized weed has been positive, including the estimated millions in tax dollars the state will collect from the sale of the drug.

But a founder of Smart Colorado, a group dedicated to exposing the negative effects the drug has on children, says it’s not all good.

“Pot is celebrated and glorified and promoted. Kids are watching adults and this is the way adults are behaving,” Gina Carbone told The Associated Press. “Here we have 4ths graders trying to make a buck off marijuana.”

Not for nothin’, but the parents who smoke legal bubba kush are the same ones who were smoking illegal bubba kush, so it’s hard to say that legalization influences kids anymore than they were already.

(Street Life City News) There are times in this cynical world of missing planes and growing national deficits that something truly extraordinary happens to restore our faith in humanity. Earlier this month, a kidnapped nine year old boy was released by his kidnapper after he kept singing one gospel song.

Nine-year-old Willie Myrick from Atlanta, Georgia was kidnapped earlier this month from his driveway and driven around for over three hours. During the three hour ordeal, Myrick sang Hezekiah Walker’s “Every Priase”. According to Myrick, he was eventually released following his singing demonstration and told to not tell anyone of what occurred.

Last Thursday (April 16th), community leaders at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church held a meeting to celebrate Myrick’s heroic ordeal. Walker appeared during the event to speak directly with the boy who used his song to save his own life.

Check out NBC’s 11Alive news coverage of Willie Myrick’s 3-hour kidnapping:

Woman Charged With Criminal Transmission Of HIV After Spitting On Cop

An out-of-control Florida woman reportedly known to “have diseases” will have her day in court after she spit on a police officer during an arrest.

via Huffington Post

Last Thursday, police arrested 53-year-old Lybette Dunn on charges of trespassing, and obstructing traffic by standing in the road. But after Dunn spit toward the front seat while sitting in the back of the police car, she was charge with criminal transmission of HIV, too, and reportedly put in jail.

Per the Broward County Police report:

“The spit struck the back of my neck, right side of my face, right arm, and throughout the interior of my vehicle. After dealing with the defendant through arrest [sic] defendant is known to have multiple diseases. This exposure was report [sic] to the on-duty supervisor, and this Deputy was treated for said exposure.”

HIV cannot be transmitted through saliva, which is why the sorts of offenses listed in the state HIV transmission statute include sexual acts that would involve the transmission of semen, or violent acts that would involve the transmission of blood.

But this is not the first time individuals have faced severe criminal punishment for allegedly HIV-infected spit. In Texas, a man is serving a 35-year prison sentence after his saliva was deemed a deadly weapon. And an HIV-positive man in Michigan faced a bio-terrorism charge for allegedly biting a neighbor, although the charge was later dropped.

Of all the disrespectful things someone could do to another person, spitting on them HAS to be the most disgusting.

THIS is the answer to all the violence that plagues America???

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Signs Safe Carry Protection Act

Via HuffingtonPost

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed a sweeping gun rights bill on Wednesday.

House Bill 60, also known as The Safe Carry Protection Act, will allow licensed gun owners to carry their firearms into public places, including bars, nightclubs, schools, churches and government buildings.

“People who follow the rules can protect themselves and their families from people who don’t follow the rules,” Deal said, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. “The Second Amendment should never be an afterthought. It should reside at the forefronts of our minds.”

The National Rifle Association has praised the bill as “the most comprehensive pro-gun reform legislation introduced in recent state history” and called it a “historic victory for the second amendment.” Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun control organization started by former Rep. Gabrille Giffords (D-Ariz.), fought to defeat the bill, calling it “the most extreme gun bill in America.”

Colin Goddard, a survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting who now works with the advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety, called the bill “unprecedented.”

“The Stand Your Ground expansion is truly a new type of Stand Your Ground as we know it,” Goddard said of the measure, which some critics dubbed the “guns everywhere” bill. “To expand it in such a way to remove all carrying or possession offenses is really unprecedented.”

No wonder people don’t fucc with Republicans.

Do you think this bill will actually help protect people?

Congrats Keke!!!

Keke Palmer Lands New Talk Show On BET

Keke Palmer is hoping her legion of young fans will support her latest endeavor – hosting her own talk show on BET.

Via The Grio reports:

The Keke Palmer Project is the current name of the network’s newest daily talk show aimed at the millennial generation – and with Palmer at the helm, the 20-year-old actress/singer is poised to become the youngest talk show host in TV history.

The show is scheduled to start airing during a four-week test run that will produce shows Monday through Friday beginning in July, Deadline reports.

Palmer will invite celebrities to join her for sit-down interviews while the show will also include various segments on topics ranging from pop culture to social issues.

The show will be produced by Telepictures and Mathis Productions, a company owned by Judge Greg Mathis.

Palmer’s show joins BET’s other black-female-run syndicated talk shows like The Wendy Williams Show and The Queen Latifah Show. Telepictures’ own panel talk show The Real is also set to join the Viacom-owned network line-up this fall.

Over the years, Palmer has built a stellar resume which boasts roles in films and shows like Akeelah and the Bee and True Jackson, VP.

She is a a four-time BET Awards nominee, an award winner of the network’s Young Stars award and currently stars in Showtime’s drama Masters of Sex.

Will you be tuning in to watch Palmer show us her talk show chops?

This sounds like a nightmare.

NYC Woman Sues After $250K Hair Implants Leave Her Bald

Some poor unfortunate lady lost all her hair after trying to thicken up what she had!

According to NY Post reports:

A Manhattan woman is suing claiming an implant procedure left her permanently bald.

Deborah Betesh, 56, forked over $250,000 for the too-good-to-be-true treatment from a Midtown company called Microdot, she says in her $15 million Manhattan civil suit.

When the procedure, which required surgically implanting hair into her scalp, left bald patches instead of the promised head of healthy hair, a Microdot staffer tried to weave more hair into Betesh’s remaining strands, the suit says.
That too fell out.

The company employee who performed the medical procedure was only licensed in cosmetology, the suit says.

Betesh, who lives in Murray Hill, eventually had to buy a “permanent artificial wig for several thousands of dollars,” according to court papers.

She underwent the treatments from April 2012 to April 2014 after Microdot pledged to give her “the hair of her dreams,” the suit says.

“Not only would Microdot technique exactly match the color and texture of her natural hair, it would allow her to among other things, wash her hair, use a curling iron or even put it in a ponytail,” the company pledged to Betesh, according to court papers.

The treatment has a history of unhappy customers. The Better Business Bureau has received 10 complaints in the past three years for “problems with product/service.”

Hey, on the bright side nobody will ever refer to her as a “nappyheaded ho.” But seriously, how didn’t she do the research ahead of time to discover all they were working with was a cosmetology license?