The Nation Of Cosby Seeks Aid!

Cosby still fighting a win-less war.

Coming out of hiding, Bill Cosby decides to hand ring the accusers who went to the junk food media.

Cosby who admits to drugging women and having sex with them. He says that the sex was consensual. Cosby decides to save what's left of his falling career as America's "favorite dad".

Cosby decides to sue Tamera Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis and Angela Leslie.

Lawyer Monique Pressley says the women published false statements about the 78-year old entertainer. The suit says that the women made "malicious, opportunistic and false and defamatory accusations of sexual misconduct against him." His attorneys claim that these women "knowingly published false statements and accusations."

Cosby decides to fight back against the accusers. There's about 50 accusers.

The suit was filed in response to a defamation lawsuit brought against him by the accusers.

Gloria Allred represents a majority of Cosby's accusers. She was once a friend of the Cos.

Actress/model Janice Dickinson also knocked Cosby in a lawsuit. She believes he took advantage of her. She also broke her silence on the numerous issues Cosby threw towards her.

These accusations spanned throughout 30 years. Many of the accusers are pass the window of pressing charges.

What these accusers want is for Bill Cosby's legacy as the "moral figure" to go down in flames.

What they want is for Camille to understand that her husband was running the streets.

Cosby survived many tragedies in his time as entertainer. The death of his only son Ennis and the extortion attempt from another accuser happened when the heat wasn't on him. Ennis was murdered on California's busiest bypass Interstate 405 in 1997. Cosby was accused by Autumn Jackson. Jackson claimed Cosby was her father. Cosby had an affair with Shawn Upshaw and it may have produced a daughter. Jackson was sentenced to time in the iron college for extortion.

In 2015, all the networks that had Cosby-related shows were pulled. MTV networks (Nickelodeon, TVLand, Nick, Jr./Nick@Nite), TV One, BET, BounceTV, Ion, and others pulled the plug on the shows.

A Different World is the only Cosby themed show still on for the time being. The episodes featuring Cosby were pulled from lineup. That would be episodes in Season One with Lisa Bonet and Marissa Tomei.

Cosby was stripped of his honorary degrees. He lost his statues in his honor at HBUs. Drexel, Temple, U-Mass, Wilberforce, Central State, Clark Atlanta, Spellman, Morehouse,  Howard and Florida A&M put the brakes Cosby's donations and pulled his name from the campus.

Cosby is married. He has five children and three grandchildren. His only son was murdered. Cosby is an actor, comedian, movie producer, author,

The Wiz Live!

NBC is rolling out a big event for the holiday. The reboot of the famed Broadway show is coming back to the screens with an all-star African American cast. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, it will premiere on the network.

Will it be a hit or a flop?

The cast includes Shanice Williams, Ne-Yo, Amber Riley, Elijah Kelley, Common, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, David Alan Grier and Uzo Aduba.

It will premiere on the network on December 3rd.

It's been 40 years since The Wiz. The 1975 Broadway production won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical was an early example of Broadway's mainstream acceptance of works with an all-black cast.

The Broadway show is an urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of modern African-American culture.

Stephanie Mills, who once played Dorothy in The Wiz will make a guest star role as Aunt Em.

The musical inspired a motion picture film that featured Diana Ross, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne and Michael Jackson. It was viewed as a flop but remains a cult classic among the fans.

National Adoption Day!

Today is National Adoption Day.

A number of courts and communities in the United States come together to finalize thousands of children from foster care. More than 300 events are held each year on the Saturday before the Thanksgiving weekend.

In the U.S. and Puerto Rico, many American children in foster care will be adopted.

About 40,000 children could be adopted a year from foster care.

It was started by The Alliance for Children's Rice, Children's Action Network, the Freddie Mac Foundation and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

The Wendy's founder Dave Thomas grew up in a foster home and before he started one of the country's largest fast food restaurants, he devoted his life to community service.

He would create the foundation to help young children find homes.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the definition of marriage is bound by two loving couples. Now straight and gay couples across the United States will have an opportunity to adopt children.

My community has the Montgomery County Job and Family Services. The adoption home sits on 1921 North Main Street. It's been there for years. The adoption agency is devoted to help children find homes.

World News Today offers our support to National Adoption Day.

No child should not be without a home.

Allen Toussaint Passed Away!

The legendary Allen Toussaint passed away.

The world of jazz and blues loses another legend. The great blues player Allen Toussaint passed away of an apparent heart attack while performing in Madrid, Spain.

He was an American musician, songwriter/composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.

Many of Toussaint's songs became familiar through versions by other musicians, including "Working in the Coal Mine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet", "Southern Nights", "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky", "I'll Take a Melody", "Get Out of My Life, Woman" and "Mother-in-Law".

Toussaint, 77, had been touring in Madrid, Clarence Toussaint said in the statement.

Artists in nearly every major genre recorded Toussaint's songs or collaborated with him, including the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Herb Alpert, Glenn Campbell, Robert Palmer and Alison Kraus and Elvis Costello.

His music, often by way of his house band The Meters, was also widely sampled by hip-hop artists such as Amerie, Public Enemy and N.W.A.

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Allen Toussaint at the 2012 Medal of Honor induction.

"I don't want y'all thinkin' 'this is just some old legend that passed away' naw," Questlove, founding member of the hip-hop group The Roots, wrote on Instagram. "This dude wrote some of your favorite music & you just didn't know it."

Toussaint's influence is woven through popular music and hip-hop, he wrote.

"At least 12 'Get Out My Life Woman' snares were like starch in hip hop's daily nutritional chart -- meaning so there you barely notice it," Questlove wrote.

British singer Billy Bragg also lamented Toussaint's death on Twitter.

"The man was a genius," he said.

Toussaint also was a well-regarded performer in his own right. His 2012 jazz album, "The Bright Mississippi," showcased "what an idiosyncratic, inventive instrumentalist he is," Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote at the time.

Toussaint opened a recording studio, Sea-Saint, in 1973 with partner Marshall Sehorn and operated his own record label.

Artists including Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Robert Palmer and Labelle recorded at the studio, according to Toussaint's biography for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 1998.

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed his studio in New Orleans, he relocated to New York, according to his biography, and began a resurgent career as a live performer that continued to his death.

"After his hometown was battered by Katrina and Allen was forced to evacuate, he did something even more important for his city: He went back," President Barack Obama said in 2012 in awarding Toussaint a National Medal of the Arts. "And since then, Allen has devoted his musical talent to lifting up and building up a city."

Paul Laurence Dunbar: American Dreamer!

Legendary Black playwright and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote some of the world's most famous poems and sonnets.

June 27, 1872 was the birth of American poet and playwright Paul Laurence Dunbar.

My community celebrates the life of a great poet. His legacy is a part of Dayton, Ohio. His home is on Summit Street (now named Paul Laurence Dunbar St.) a national monument.

Dayton, Ohio is where he grew up writing his best poems, plays and sonnets.

He grew up around the time Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to patent inventions.

He traveled overseas. He found love with  Alice Ruth Moore a fellow poet. He became one of the world's greatest poets of the late 19th and early 20th century. He found personal demons as well.

He would become involved in alcohol and depression. He would end up losing his life to TB (tuberculosis). He buried at the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton.

His home is part of the Dayton Aviation National Historical Park and is an Ohio designated state monument.

Born to parents who had been slaves in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar started to write as a child and was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper.

Much of his more popular work in his lifetime was written in the Negro dialect associated with the antebellum South. His work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading critic associated with the Harper's Weekly, and Dunbar was one of the first African-American writers to establish a national reputation. He wrote the lyrics for the musical comedy, In Dahomey (1903), the first all-African-American musical produced on Broadway; the musical also toured in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Dunbar also wrote in conventional English in other poetry and novels; since the late 20th century, scholars have become more interested in these other works.

Father Of The Year In Lockup After Leaving Daughter To Die In Hot Car!

Daddy dearest. Father in city lockup after leaving his child to die in a hot car. Wondering if the junk food media will realize that Marilyn Mosby will find ways to put this man in the iron college?

Father of the year.

Out of Baltimore, a father is now learning that parenthood is a 24/7 business. He somehow slept on the job. Literally this man got drunk on Father's Day and was partying while his 2-year old daughter was sitting in a vehicle with temperatures in the high 80s. That temperature in a car could rise to the 100s.

Wilbert Carter makes me sick. The 31 year old gives fathers a bad name. Especially since he's a Black man, he's already being criticized by them Black extremists who believe that THE BLACKS are unfit to be parents.

His daughter Leasia was left in the car for eight hours. The little girl would die because of heat stroke, and severe burns left on her body.

Carter was at the gas station guzzling up on a few 40 oz and lost track of his daughter. I guess he thought that if he was going to be on the road with a lick in his system, he would go to city lockup.

But unaware he brought his daughter. He was suppose to take her to his parents home.

Alas, he fucked up. Now he could face 30 years in the iron college for second degree murder.

World News Today send our condolences to the family of Leasia Carter.

Of course, cue the concern trolls.

Baltimore the city where police officers were indicted in the murder of Freddie Gray. Where a few days of rioting led to property damage, partisan blame and the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The agitators went with cameras in tow to Baltimore to catch rioters loot the liquor store while a few miles down the protesters were being ignored and the calls for reform weren't heard.

Leasia Carter was defenseless. Dad didn't bother taking his daughter out of a hot vehicle.

Marilyn Mosby the state prosecutor for the city of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and police commissioner Anthony Batts were taking some heat from the agitators because the knee jerkers weren't satisfied with the results.

Baltimore indicted six cops and they are innocent until proven guilty. According to the racist right, Freddie Gray caused his injuries. He shouldn't take off running. He was a dope pusher. He put up a fight. And yet there's no camera evidence leaked showing him doing anything. The only video shown was the blood curling screams of a man who looked like he got slammed near a brick fence.

In the case of Wilbert Carter, he's guilty until proven innocent. They don't care. As long as he's Black, he's guilty.

I am guessing that Carter is already facing non-stop torture. Not only from his family, but the guilt of being a reckless father will stick with him for the rest of his life.

Viola Davis: I'm Natural So Why Would They Want Me To Wear A Wig?

Annalise Keating showing the natural side.

How To Get Away With Murder is co-produced by Peter Nowalk and Shonda Rhimes and it features Broadway's famed Viola Davis. The ABC drama is a go for second season.

HTGAWM for short is one highly praised drama. I'm a fan of the series.

Viola plays the role of Annalise Keating as a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with four of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot.

One of the most famous scenes was Annalise taking off her wig, her eyelashes and wiping off the makeup and showing the natural side of her. It was ad lib and it was Viola's idea.

Kerry Washington, Viola Davis and Ellen Pompeo.

She wanted to do this as a reminder to women that beauty is inner deep.

There was something for me that I didn’t buy about Annalise in private. It felt like who she was in private had to be diametrically opposed to who she was in public. And so in order to do that, I felt like I had to physically take the wig off. I mean, I have no eyebrows. I have eyelashes that I put on, and there was something extremely vulnerable about that act -- and I know it seems like a very simple act at the end of the day -- but for me, that simple act really surmounted to something very powerful in the end, because what it was was someone being very, very private in public, which is absolutely the cornerstone of what we do as artists.

That episode was epic.

Rhimes have gotten fans talking about controversial seasons of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.

She promises fans that they will be even better.

A lot of talk coming from the killing of Meredith Grey's husband Derrick Shepard (played by Patrick Dempsey). Fans weren't happy about the decision to write off Dempsey's character.

Louis Johnson Passed Away!

Louis Johnson was a great performer. He passed away.

If you've heard of the songs "I'll Be Good To You", "Ain't We Funkin' Now" and "Strawberry Letter 22" and "Stomp", you have to give credit to The Brothers Johnson.

The 1970s group consist of brothers Louis and George Johnson. They were known as Lightin and Thunder Thumbs.

Well today it's confirmed by the family that Louis had passed away.

It was confirmed that he passed away on Thursday. Conditions are unknown but it was released today of his passing.

World News Today send our condolences to the family of Louis Johnson.

Wikipedia has an explanation about this.

Johnson was best known for his group The Brothers Johnson and his session playing on several hit albums of the 1970s and 1980s including the "best selling album of all time" Thriller.

His signature sound was from the Music Man StingRay bass which Leo Fender especially made for him to first use and promote, and form his slapping technique

Guitarist/vocalist George and bassist/vocalist Louis formed the band Johnson Three Plus One with older brother Tommy and their cousin Alex Weir while attending school in Los Angeles, California.

When they became professionals, the band backed such touring R&B acts as Bobby Womack and the Supremes. George and Louis Johnson later joined Billy Preston's band and wrote Music in My Life and The Kids and Me for him before leaving his group in 1973. In 1976, The Brothers covered the Beatles' song, Hey Jude, for the ephemeral musical documentary All This and World War II.

Quincy Jones hired them to play on his LP Mellow Madness, and recorded four of their songs, including Is It Love That We're Missing? and Just a Taste of Me.

After touring with various artists including Bobby Womack and Billy Preston, they were hired by Quincy Jones for a tour in Japan and produced their debut album Look Out For #1, released in March 1976 (#9 US) Their Right on Time album was released in May 1977 and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 200. Blam!! came out in August 1978 and reached number 7 on the Billboard 200.

Two of the duo's songs were featured on the soundtrack of the 1976 film Mother, Jugs & Speed. The instrumental track Thunder Thumbs and Lightnin' Licks refers to the brothers' nicknames. Get the Funk Out Ma Face was cowritten with Quincy Jones.

Their popular album Light Up The Night was released in March 1980 and rose to #5 on the Billboard 200. It was number 46 on the "Top 100 LPs of 1980" list in Rolling Stone Magazine. The brothers self-produced the subsequent album, Winners; released in July 1981, it only reached #48 on the Billboard 200.

Among their most popular songs are I'll Be Good to You (Billboard Hot 100 #3 in 1976), Strawberry Letter 23 (Hot 100 #5 in 1977, originally recorded by Shuggie Otis), Ain't We Funkin' Now (1978), and Stomp! (Hot 100 #7 and Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1 in 1980). Their styles include funk, and R&B ballads. Each album also included at least one instrumental cut that would either be considered lite jazz (Tomorrow 1976, Q 1977, Smilin' On Ya 1980, Tokyo 1984) or Funk (Thunder Thumbs &Lightning Licks 1976, Brother Man 1976, Mista Cool 1978, Celebrations 1980).

Barack Obama Joins Twitter!

@POTUS 

It seems like the curtain is pulled over again. President Barack Obama jumps onto Twitter. So all that coming from the official Barack Obama Twitter and Facebook accounts were done by his staffers.

Even the signed by "B.O." It was done by staffers.

So who thought he had the time to jump onto Twitter?

The Secret Service clears the way for the president to create an account. Of course, he introduces himself to the Twitter world.

Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account.

— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015

I mean when he has he ever been able to promoting himself?

Who was sending those mailers, email shouts and videos? I thought it was done by him.

Do you actually believe that?

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States is a very busy guy. I mean he running a country of 322 million people. He controls the nation's military. He is the leader of the free world. He had to be a father 24/7, a husband, a man who has to promote a vision for the country.

Despite his critics attacking him constantly over the most trivial things, Barack manages to brush off the noise and keep it moving forward.

He signs legislation into law. Why would I believe that he jumps onto Twitter and post "I am eating cereal and watching Sportscenter" on the social media?

He doesn't get enough time to jump onto the social media. With all the things going on. I mean the president works 24/7 and doesn't really get a break.

So what did the president do when he was on Twitter?

He tells the public that he made an executive order on police requesting military style weaponry.

The president believes that the police using military arsenal gives communities a sense of distrust towards them.

He traveled to Camden, NJ to talk about the need for police reform, transportation reform (in wake of neighboring Philadelphia and the tragic train crash) and empowerment.

Soon we will address the racist and threaten messages sent to the president.

Rapper Chinx Passed Away!

Chinx (left) was gunned down. French Montana (right) was shocked and sadden by the lost of his friend.

A rapper who is affiliated with French Montana was gunned down over the weekend.

World News Today send our condolences to the family Chinx.

Born Lionel Pickens he was best known for collaborations with French and many other rappers was shot and killed in Jamaica, Queens, New York. He was in a car when he was caught off guard by the gunfire from an unknown assailant.

Chinx (Drugz) was the rapper who made the song "I'm A Coke Boy" with French Montana, Rick Ross and Sean "Puffy" Combs.

French Montana is an artist who appears on Interscope Records and is affiliated with Bad Boy Records and Maybach Music Group launched Coke Boyz Music and signed Chinx in 2012.

NYPD is looking into connections.

BREAKING: B.B. King Passes Away!

The news is confirmed that Blues legend B.B. King has passed away. He was interned into hospice a few weeks ago. He was suffering from heart failure and type II diabetes.


His family and management team have confirmed that he passed away tonight.

The remaining tours were cancelled upon hearing the Blues legend was admitted to the hospital.

No word from the White House yet, but expect it.

World News Today send our condolences to the family of B.B. King.

Brief summary from Wikipedia.

 B.B. King (born Riley B. King) was an American blues musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time (previously ranked No. 3 in the 2003 edition of the same list), and he was ranked No. 17 in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time".

According to Edward M. Komara, King "introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed."

King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. King was also inducted into 2014 class of the R&B Music Hall of Fame. He is considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of Blues", and one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and Freddie King).

Godfather of Soul and the King of the Blues.

King is also known for performing tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing at 250–300 concerts per year until his seventies. In 1956 it was noted that he appeared at 342 shows. King continued to appear at 100 shows a year through the end of his career.

Over the years, King has developed one of the world's most identifiable guitar styles. He borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others, integrating his precise and complex vocal-like string bends and his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable components of rock guitarists' vocabulary. His economy and phrasing has been a model for thousands of players.

King has mixed blues, jazz, swing, mainstream pop and jump into a unique sound. In King's words,

"When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille."