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Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is urging sponsors of football player Michael Vick to stop supporting the sports star after he was charged for operating an illegal dog-fighting operation.

Earlier this week openentrance.com reported that Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury for “conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and to sponsor a dog in animal fighting venture” on July 17.

Animal-loving Simmons has teamed up with civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton and People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) President Ingrid E. Newkirk to write a letter to Vick’s sponsors.

Since Vick’s controversy, Nike has announced it is dropping plans to release a special Nike Air Zoom Vick V football shoe.

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Ike Turner is set to perform September 2nd at the Big Muddy Blues Festival, but St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has turned down a request to make Sept. 2 “Ike Turner Day.”

Cathy Smentkowski, an aide to Slay, said that when the request “was brought to the mayor’s attention, he did not feel comfortable issuing it.” She declined to elaborate.

I’m guessing she didn’t elaborate so she could get back to the meeting room and finish laughing.

Could it have been the accusations of him abusing his ex-wife Tina that made the mayor feel uncomfortable? Or maybe it was because he spent 17-months in jail for a drug conviction back in 1990.  Or maybe Mayor Slay knew if he wanted to continue to be taken seriously as a politician he had to say no to this.

Scott M. Hanover, a manager at Thrill Entertainment Group, which represents Ike Turner, said it was a “shame” that Turner’s troubled history still follows him.”People are living in the past,” Hanover said. “They don’t know the man I know. This ain’t 1962.”

Now I know Ike is considered legendary in the music game to many, but I want to know who all was sitting in the room when somebody decided it would be a good idea to ask for Sept 2 to be ‘Ike Turner Day!’

Man I don’t know what to say after watching this. I love the message in it but I hate the visual delivery. This is done by one of the guys who helped bring buffonery and shuckin and jivivn’ to the forefront in rap with crunk. Did this set black people back 5 years or did we move forward with this song? Tell me what you think about this?

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Throwback Song-Bobby Brown-On Our
They called the ghostbusters and they in control

In 1916 Wheatley-Provident Hospital was founded. This was the first medical facility to serve the Black community of Kansas City, Missouri. Created in 1910, as the Perry Sanitarium and Training School for Nurses it was named after Dr. J. Edward Perry. The hospital, however, had become too small and outdated to fully serve the community’s needs. Through the efforts of many area civic groups, Wheatley-Provident was replaced by Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital.

Also on this date:

1967 More than one thousand persons attended the first Black Power Conference in Newark, New Jersey.

2002 Fred Gary Sr. is installed as the President of the Alabama state bar association making him the first Black person to hold this position.