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• California Supreme Court Refuses Halt For Same
  Sex Marriage
• Hit The Floor Gets Seond Season
• Three Florida Cases
• Chicago School Closings And The Joyce Foundation
  The Obama Connection
• Feds Watchin How They Tune In When We Get Turnt
  Up
• Knock, Knock- A Poem By Paradise Gray For Trayvon
• Phil Ade Philluminati R.O.S.E.
• Lil Wayne Tour Passport Part 6
• Wells Fargo Donates 300 Million
• Jay Z Explains His Beef With Timbaland

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California Supreme Court Refuses Halt For Same
Sex Marriage

• In a terse, one-sentence ruling Monday,
  the California Supreme Court refused to halt the
  same-sex marriages taking place in counties
  across the state.
• Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
  Protect Marriage, the group that sponsored
  Proposition 8 which eliminated marriage
  equality rights from the California Constitution
  had no standing to challenge U.S. District
  Court Judge Vaughn Williams ruling that the
  initiative violated the federal Constitutions
  equal protection clause. State officials,
  including governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and
  Jerry Brown and State Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris
  had declined to defend the proposition in court.
• Protect Marriage appealed to Californias high
  court, arguing that Williams ruling applied only
  to the two counties in which the plaintiffs who
  brought the federal suit against Prop. 8 reside.
  The group asked the court to halt same-sex unions
  in other parts of the state until its appeal is
  heard, which now appears will occur sometime next
  month.
• On Monday, the court curtly declined to issue
  such a stay, ruling The request for an
  immediate stay or injunctive relief is denied.
  The justices gave no reason for their decision.
• California Atty. Gen. Harris argued to that
  Protect Marriage is asking the states high court
  to unconstitutionally interfere with a federal
  court order.
• In Washington, Chad Griffin, president of the
  Human Rights Campaign and organizer of the
  federal suit against Prop. 8, said Our opponents
  have failed in a desperate attempt to deny
  happiness and protections to lesbian and gay
  couples and their children and no amount of legal
  wrangling is going to undo that joy. Marriage
  equality has returned to the Golden State.

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Hit The Floor Gets Seond Season
The cable network has renewed the scripted drama,
centered on a group of professional basketball
dancers, for a sophomore run, it was announced
Monday. According to VH1, Hit the Floor is the
highest-rated freshman scripted cable series
among the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49
demographic, where it averages a 1.2 rating. The
series draws an average of 1.9 million total
viewers. We always knew that Hit the Floor was a
strong project from the beginning and we are
thrilled that so many of our viewers agree with
us, said Jill Holmes, VH1s senior vp West
Coast production and development. With creator
James LaRosa at the helm, everyone in front of
and behind the camera has created a compelling,
addictive series with high-energy dance numbers,
and we cant wait to continue the storyline
thats made it the No. 1 cable show in its time
period among adults. Hit the Floor follows
fictional basketball team the Los Angeles Devils,
whose players share the fame, money, sex and
power with their dancers, the Devil Girls. Hit
the Floor stars Dean Cain, Kimberly Elise,
Charlotte Ross, Taylour Paige, Logan Browning,
Valery Ortiz, Katherine Bailess, Jonathan
McDaniel, McKinley Freeman, Rob Riley and Don
Stark.
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Three Florida Cases
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Chicago School Closings And The Joyce Foundation
The Obama Connection

• Chicago School Closings And The Joyce Foundation
  The Obama Connection by Steve Horn
• The Windy City is is undergoing a tumultuous
  historical moment, with the uprising of the
  Chicago Teachers Union occurring alongside the
  ongoing restructuring and privatization of the
  Chicago Public Schools system.
• Most recently, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel oversaw
  the closing of 50 public schools, many of which
  will be replaced by charter schools. A bulk of
  the 550 laid-off teachers will be replaced by
  Teach for America contractors, many of whom teach
  in charter schools.
• Statewide enrollment in charter schools has
  surged from 6,152 students in 2000 to 54,054 this
  school year with most of them in Chicago
  according to the Illinois State Board of
  Education, an April Chicago Tribune editorial
  explained. The first charter school in Illinois
  opened in 1996. Now there are 132 campuses
  operating under 58 charters.
• A thus-far underreported story of the retooling
  of CPS concerns a foundation close the epicenter
  of it all the Joyce Foundation.

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Feds Watchin How They Tune In When We Get Turnt
Up

• Many people across the country are upset over the
  outcome of the George Zimmerman trial for the
  murder of Trayvon Martin. And rightly so. The
  trial was a miscarriage of so called justice if
  Ive ever seen one. However, the fact that we
  cant sleep on. is that for the past two weeks
  the whole hood has been on trial.
• From the day that the George Zimmerman trial
  began, most of the focus of the media was not on
  the death of an innocent 17 year old Black kid,
  but on how Black folks in Sanford, Florida and
  hoods across America were gonna react if
  Zimmerman was found not guilty.
• While people in this country claimed to be on a
  nightly verdict watch, in reality, they were on
  a 24/7 riot watch. What is interesting is that
  the tactics the Feds used to monitor black rage
  in Sanford were the same ones that they have,
  historically, used over and over again when they
  think that there is the possibility of urban
  unrest. The preemptive strike against the hood
  has gone on for decades.

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Knock, Knock- A Poem By Paradise Gray For Trayvon

• Knock knock, whos there?
• George Zimmerman,
• George Zimmerman who?
• George Zimmerman who got away with murder!
• Who was profiled for his skin color and the way
  he dressed?
• Who Had the nerve to wear a hoodie in the rain no
  less.
• Who was riding? Who was walking?
• Who called what on who? Who was just on the phone
  talking?
• Who was scared?
• Who was brave?
• Who is the master?
• Who was the slave?
• Who is the man?
• Who is the boy?
• Who, plays with guns?
• Who, plays with toys?
• Who is privileged? Who is poor?
• Who left the crib armed?
• Who was just going to the store?

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Phil Ade Philluminati R.O.S.E.

• Phil Ade Philluminati R.O.S.E.
• Check the video!

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Lil Wayne Tour Passport Part 6

• Check the video!

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Wells Fargo Donates 300 Million

• San Francisco based bank Wells Fargo beat
  seven-year winner Wal-Mart after giving over
  300million to charity.
• The USs fourth largest bank jumped ahead of
  Wal-Mart in 2012 after they spent almost 50 per
  cent more than the year before, according to a
  new survey of 100 companies by the Chronicle of
  Philanthropy.
• Wells Fargo gave away 315.8 million in cash last
  year, increasing its giving to support a new
  program that provides down-payment assistance to
  home buyers in neighborhoods with high
  foreclosure rates.
• The company donated 47.9 per cent more than they
  did in 2011, giving them the push they needed to
  jump ahead of big givers, Wall-Mart. Wal-Mart has
  led U.S. corporate giving for the last seven
  years. Their donations were down 9 per cent from
  2011 at 311.6 million.
• This does not include the sum of money they have
  agreed to give to settle federal civil
  charges.They will pay 6.6million for charges
  saying that the bank failed to inform investors
  about the risks tied to mortgages it sold.

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Jay Z Explains His Beef With Timbaland

•  Jay Z Explains His Beef With Timbaland
• Check the video!