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Little People Want Ban on Use of "Midget"

The group Little People of America called Sunday for the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word... more

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NY Congressman Blasts Michael Jackson

A New York congressman says in a YouTube video that Michael Jackson was a ``pervert.''

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Lord Hector Diono is an unsigned American music composer and song writer originally from the nation's capital Washington D.C. who currently resides in Decatur Georgia. Lord Hector Diono is also the former front man to the 1990's rap band Kore Houze Tribe who's title credits include the single: One Way Out and LP realease: L.I.F.E. on Hector's then
indie label Mob Hit Records, ATL. He has since been credited with 3 EP releases on itunes and amazon.com entitled "Who is Mikey Sharkfin?", " Til the End", and "Scarecrow" with a hit single is gradually being recognized around the world entiled "I Was Your Man".

Lord Hector Diono was younger when he met and fell head over hills for a California native that later became the mother of his only child. In a foul chain of events exactly two years and a half after the birth of their child, Hector became a single father raising his daughter by himself with very little help from family after his daughter's mother became addicted to crack cocaine subsequently stalling his music career. Hector wrote this song while braiding his then 7 year old daughter's hair in the studio in between vocal recording breaks. "I was your man" is an epic true urban love story told like no other rapper as ever told a story before laced with live guitar tracks performed by Jon Bobbit from the 1990's Rock band Eracsim, track produced by Andreas Hush Stasonopolis for Dead Zone Publishing/DarkTown Music Group available on itunes now! and soundtrack.mtv.com/lordhectordiono © 2007 MTV Networks. Hector is now bieng credited with yet another release, now on his new indie label, Darktown Music Group entitled "Scarecrow", this release is available at http://www.lordhectordiono.com/ and http://soundtrack.mtv.com/ Hector has been noted by http://www.google.com/ as having over 20,000 hits per month on his name search and activities and it looks like he's not slowing down anytime soon. You are invited to contact Lord Hector Diono directly at hoodwatchmedia@gmail.com to recieve links, wallpapers, and ringtone information and all the latest updates from the unsigned American talent, you are also welcome to send your tour requests and casting calls to hoodwatchmedia aswell. Check out some of what makes this guy so entertaining.Lord Hector Diono is an unsigned American music composer and song writer originally from the nation's capital Washington D.C.... more

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Free beats [video]

Two days after Obama won, a beatboxer called Shock took a mic and an amp outside, sat in the middle of New York city in front of a... more

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Was There Another Kid Rock Before Kid Rock?

The year was 1986 when Lord Hector Diono began using local guitar players in the D.C. area to play on his demos, some to this day... more

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Preparing Senate Run, Rep. Carolyn Maloney Loses Democrats’ Embrace

"Ms. Maloney finds herself very much alone these days. Defying the wishes of Democratic leaders, she plans to announce a... more

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A-Rod Leads Yanks to 7th Straight Win

Alex Rodriguez hit a tiebreaking homer, Andy Pettitte pitched seven strong innings and the New York Yankees beat the Seattle... more

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$231 Million Set Aside for Madoff Victims

A group funded by the securities industry has set aside $231 million to cover claims by Bernard Madoff's burned investors.

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Gas Station Robbers Caught When They Ran Out of Gas

State police say two Pennsylvania men robbed an upstate New York gas station and might have gotten away if they'd remembered... more

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Boy Offering Free Hugs

Need a hug? A 12-year-old boy is here for you.

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A Somber Night at the Apollo: A Celebration of Michael Jackson

It all started with a family: call them Joe and Kate plus — actually, don’t; because unlike people for whom a journalist needs to make a far-reaching comparison in order to create relevance to her audience’s lives, this international supernova needs no such thing. Today, hundreds of fans gathered at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York to celebrate the life of Michael Jackson.

“Michael!” “Jackson!” “Michael!” “Jackson! ”The crowd bellows back and forth. The lights from the legendary theater glean over the audience of hundreds, yet it’s only supplementary to the light the crowd emits as it gives its best rendition of the “Thriller” choreography. Men, women and kids from different backgrounds, neighborhoods and even countries have come to be a part of the festivities.

Jean Deler made his way to the theater around 10 P.M. Earlier, he had a feeling something big was going to happen today, but he didn’t know it would be this big, “I was in disbelief. I thought they were just joking around. I had the 9/11 disbelief,” said Deler.

For Antoinette Powell, her attendance was a family affair— dancing with her mother and her kids, all of them belting Jackson’s lyrics. “ I remember I was in elementary school and my babysitter took me to see where he was filming “Bad.” I saw him waving as he was going into his limo and I know he was waving at me; nobody could tell me any differently.” “No,” said her mother, Cassilda Powell, “What he was trying to tell you was, ‘Tell your Mama I’ll be there in a minute.’”

Crowds huddle around as a woman in a blue MTA uniform perched a boom box on top of her head “Beat It” starts blaring from its speakers and fans keep up the dancing. Off to the side, there’s another huddle around 13-year-old Soumaila Traore. After a couple pops, locks and a brief moonwalk he coyly backs off. “Why’d you stop?” said a man two decades his senior, “It’s up to y’all now, we can’t do that anymore.”

Merely looking at the crowd lends itself to the generational impact Jackson has had. Traore said he felt compelled to come out—past his bedtime— to represent and support Jackson’s legacy. Even though he was not even born when Jackson’s greatest hits debuted, and the fact that there is a sea of NeYos, Justin Timberlakes and Ushers, he simply says, “I’m a fan.”

Vikki Taylor felt the same way: “When you grow up with Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 you know how great they are.” But it wasn’t until a turning moment when Taylor truly saw Jackson as a superstar in his own right. His performance at the Motown 25th anniversary cemented his status in her mind; his talent and sparkling glove blinded her: “It blew me away.”

Though the music blares, people sing, cameras click and candles burn, a certain heaviness settled on members of the crowd. “I celebrated my grandbaby’s graduation today; I didn’t expect my day to end like this,” said Cassilda. “I was crying so bad; I was on the phone and my friend said ‘Why you crying? You didn’t know him, he wouldn’t be crying at your funeral.’ But that’s not the point,” she said wiping the tears from her face as she relived the moments

Reina Allen, 24, could not hold her tears though her friend tried to help dance off the pain. She knew Jackson a little bit better than the rest. A close family member served as a body guard for Jackson, and Allen recalled a much different Michael than who was projected on TV screens, “He was such a decent person,” she said. Despite Jackson’s physical death, she echoes what so many have said: Jackson’s music has a life of its own and the man from Neverland has truly achieved immortality.It all started with a family: call them Joe and Kate plus — actually, don’t; because unlike people for whom a... more