Around the Web: Hip-Hop Undergoes a Renovation, Beyonce, Homeless Kids, & Terry Jones

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Hip-Hop Undergoes a Renovation Tenants at the Bronx apartment building where DJ Kool Herc hosted the world's first hip-hop party finally have an excuse to boogie down. A city-based housing group has bought the debt on 1520 Sedgwick Avenue and promised to renovate the dilapidated Morris Heights building, known as the birthplace of hip-hop, elected officials announced yesterday. (News One)

Beyonce and Neighbor "Work It Out" Reportedly, Beyonce Knowles has just ended a legal war with a guy who claimed the singer "invaded his neighborhood" for a video shoot. (Hello Beautiful)

The Blind Side of the Economic Crisis In the United States, there is a problem that is affecting an estimated one million homeless school children. To understand the magnitude of that number, think about this, there are nearly 40 million African Americans in the U.S. And when you drill down the numbers of those homeless kids, nearly half of them are black. (The Loop 21)

How Florida Pastor Terry Jones Found an Audience for Hate Before he was the internationally condemned "Burn a Koran Day" pastor, drawing a crush of media to sleepy Gainesville, Florida; Terry Jones was just your average, amateur cult leader. (The Grio)

 

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