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Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 72 *Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE Don’t agonize, organize. – Florynce Kennedy CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS  May 21: Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 72. Actor Mr. T is 61. Rapper Havoc of Mobb Deep is 39. BLACK HISTORY May 21, 1881: Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as U.S. senator from Mississippi. He was the first black man to serve a full term in the senate, and the first person born into slavery to preside over the senate. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)

After hitting fans with "Ball" last year, T.I. nabs Lil Wayne for his latest single, "Wit Me." In the single's video, the duo head the police on a high speed through Miami, before hopping on a yacht with a slew of bikini-clad women.

Mayhem is the word of the day when it comes to the video that TMZ has posted of Rapper, The Game, outside of Lure…

As many feared, the divorce between Porsha Williams and Kordell Stewart seems to be getting nasty. And this is a prime example of it.…

*VH1’s Kim Osorio of “Gossip Game” was a bit surprised about the comments she received from about she and her co-stars about their looks. But who would be? After all, they are on reality television. “One of the criticisms I heard about our show a lot of times was the way we look,” Kim told Sister 2 Sister. “I feel like I just look like a regular person, but when you’re on TV, people expect you to be extra glamorous and you have to dress a certain way, and it’s all about image and style.” Many of the reality shows embrace women who are quite well off already. But “Gossip Game” is whole different thing, featuring working women with real jobs. So Kim is totally taken aback by the people who feel the show is not realistic enough. “I’ve heard people critique how we look as a cast… ‘Oh, they’re not skinny enough to be on TV. They’re not pretty enough to be on TV…’ I just think that does a disservice to all of the stuff we’ve heard in the past about what people want from reality TV,” said Kim, who’s heard the many complaints about the images of women on other reality shows. “’We’re tired of seeing these housewives and women who are dating people and that’s how they earned their way on TV.’ Well, if you’re tired of it, then don’t knock down the fact that we’re a show of women who may not be a size 2,” she said. She added that she received a Twitter message from someone suggesting she get collagen injections in her lips. Wow.

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. At least 37 people were reported killed. The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, south of the city. Block after block of the community lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside. The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister. Authorities expected the death toll to rise as emergency crews moved deeper into the hardest-hit areas. At least 60 people were reported hurt, including more than a dozen children. Rescuers mounted a desperate rescue effort at the school, pulling children from heaps of debris and carrying them to a triage center. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin deployed 80 National Guard members to assist with search-and-rescue operations and activated extra highway patrol officers. Fallin also spoke with President Barack Obama, who offered the nation’s help and gave Fallin a direct line to his office. Many land lines to stricken areas were down and cellphone traffic was congested. The storm was so massive that it will take time to establish communications between rescuers and state officials, the governor said. In video of the storm, the dark funnel cloud could be seen marching slowly across the green landscape. As it churned through the community, the twister scattered shards of wood, pieces of insulation, awnings, shingles and glass all over the streets. Volunteers and first responders raced to search the debris for survivors. At Plaza Towers Elementary School, the storm tore off the roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal. Several children were pulled alive from the rubble. Rescue workers passed the survivors down a human chain to the triage center in the parking lot. James Rushing, who lives across the street from the school, heard reports of the approaching tornado and ran to the school, where his 5-year-old foster son, Aiden, attends classes. Rushing believed he would be safer there. “About two minutes after I got there, the school started coming apart,” he said. The students were placed in the restroom. Oklahoma City Police Capt. Dexter Nelson said downed power lines and open gas lines posed a risk in the aftermath of the system. Monday’s powerful tornado loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999. The weather service estimated that the storm that Monday’s tornado was at least a half-mile wide. The 1999 storm had winds clocked at 300 mph. Kelsey Angle, a weather service meteorologist in Kansas City, Mo., said it’s unusual for two such powerful tornadoes to track roughly the same path. Monday’s devastation in Oklahoma came almost exactly two years after an enormous twister ripped through the city of Joplin, Mo., killing 158 people and injuring hundreds more. That May 22, 2011, tornado was the deadliest in the United States since modern tornado record keeping began in 1950, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Before Joplin, the deadliest modern tornado was June 1953 in Flint, Mich., when 116 people died. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

According to The New York Times, A tornado described by the National Weather Service as “large and deadly” touched down south of Oklahoma City Monday afternoon…