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When two armed thugs walked into a New Bedford, Massachusetts grocer store ready to rob the joint, they likely weren’t betting on an elderly woman to repel their plot with fruit-pelting barrage! But, according to myfoxboston, that is exactly what happened. On Friday, 80-year-old Otilia Martins witnessed the two robbers demanding cash from the register […]

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BOSTON-Nine students were expelled from Dean College in Massachusetts after a video was posted on  WorldStarHipHop.com of one student brutally beating another over what he believed were stolen sneakers. In the video one students confronts another than repeatedly punches him and then takes his sneakers while his friends laugh and record the beating. CBS Boston […]

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BOSTON-Kevin Hogan, an English teacher at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden has been placed on leave after investigators from Fox 25 Boston confronted him about gay pornographic movies he starred in. Hogan who performed under the name Hytch Cawke  was also a coach and the chair of the school’s English department. Fox 25 […]

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BOSTON-A group of friends are suing a Boston bar, Peggy O’Neil’s for discriminating against them due to their skin color. The men, Cape Verdean a Hispanic and an African American claim that they were denied entry in to the bar they were going to to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The Huffington Post Reports: Later that […]

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BOSTON – The National Urban League will host its annual conference this year in Boston, a city that carries a racially tense history stemming back to the 1970s, in which a court ruled that Black and white students would have to attend schools in different neighborhoods. The ugly race reality in Boston has stained its […]

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BOSTON – According to reports on Twitter and on Boston Hip Hop forums Boston Emcee, Akrobartik has had a heart attack and is in a coma. Akrobatik, real name Jared Bridgeman is from the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and has had his music featured on “The Wire” and the video game “NBA Live” and has […]

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BOSTON — A recent article in The Boston Globe discusses the city’s rising number of African-American playwrights, actors, and performances that are hitting the stage at an increasing rate. ALSO READ: HelloBeautiful.com’s 25 Women To Know BOSTONGLOBE.COM REPORTS: When “Broke-ology’’ opened last week at Lyric Stage Company, with an all-black cast performing a work by […]