A 3-D tribute to the late Michael Jackson was a highlight of this year’s Grammys. Singers such as Jennifer Hudson, Smoky Robinson and Usher paid tribute to the King of Pop.
Via: CharlotteObserver.com Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will be closed Monday because of concerns about icy roads in the morning, Superintendant Peter Gorman said Sunday evening. Monday will be a optional teacher workday for all employees, Gorman said. He said he would recommend Monday, Feb. 15, a scheduled teacher workday, as a makeup day. CMS spent Sunday checking […]
Beyonce, who already has claimed four golden gramophones (best female R&B vocal performance, best traditional R&B vocal performance, best R&B song and best contemporary R&B album) performed her hit single “If I Were A Boy:”
Via: CharlotteObserver.com Sleet and snow have left roadways across the Charlotte metro region treacherous Saturday morning, and little improvement in highway conditions is expected for the rest of the day. Heavy sleet moved across the Charlotte area before daybreak, falling on top of several inches of snow that fell hours earlier north and west of […]
Keri Hilson is ready to get her Grammy on and has already hit up the Smashbox style studio.
Via: grammy.com Nine-time GRAMMY winner Mary J. Blige and world-renowned pop tenor Andrea Bocelli will join forces and perform live together in a special fund-raising segment for Haiti relief on the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. This once-in-a-lifetime performance (audio and video) of the Simon & Garfunkel classic “Bridge Over Troubled Water” will be made available […]
Via: QCityMetro.com Eric Greene grew up in a Baltimore neighborhood that was so rough it was the subject of an HBO mini-series. Noah Stewart grew up in Harlem. They weren’t exposed to opera music as youths, yet there they were, onstage performing as Schaunard and Rodolfo in “La Bohème.” Greene and Stewart are main characters […]
VIA: BIOGRAPHY.COM Inventor and manufacturer, born in Canada. His African-American parents had fled from Kentucky to escape slavery. He showed an early talent for mechanical innovations, and in Ypsilanti, MI he devloped lubricators for steam engines (1870). In 1882 he moved to Detroit, where he perfected his lubricating cup, still widely used to provide a […]
Anyone born in the 60’s and 70’s knows something about the Black Panther Party. On February 17th, 1968, their leader Huey P. Newton was on trial for the shooting of some police officers. Back then the police in California and the United States Government were doing anything in their power to bring the party down. […]
Via: CharlotteObserver.com Heavy rain late Sunday and early Monday caused flooding that forced evacuations and rescues across the Charlotte metro region. No serious injuries were reported, but a number of roads and intersections remain closed this morning. The Rowan-Salisbury Schools are closed today, and the Cabarrus County Schools are opening on a two-hour delay, due […]
Via: NewsOne.com Scores of U.S. troops landed on the lawn of Haiti’s shattered presidential palace Tuesday to the cheers by quake victims eager for reinforcements in the sluggish global effort to bring food, water and shelter to the devastated country. Thousands more U.S. troops are on the way and the U.N. Security Council was expected […]
Via: bvnewswire.com Monique accepted her award…… “Everybody kept asking me do I know my speech, and I said, ‘No, I don’t know what I’m going to say because I don’t want people to think I just know I done won something,’ so no, I don’t know! When I tell you all I am in the […]