Saturday, October 15, 2011

Propaganda Boyz Lil Homie

Lil Homie Born EddieSmiley
Represents the Cinnattio Ohio Market that hasnot been tapped for quite a while , .as far as il homie who came to Atlanta After The Death Of his Brother Dashaun Ware who was shot in year 2006 in a small town call Hamilton Ohio which is better known as lil Chicago . After the loss of his big brother he vowed he would make it in the music industry. Lil Homie is a music engineer student at Omnitech College In Atlanta Georgia. He is the first member of Propaganda
Eddie is a Writer & Producer as well as a Drummer. Homie has been playing drums sence he was 5 years old getting ran off the drums by the church deacons. starting in the church is where a lot of musicians get their first chance to test their talent. We all know how the industry can be and it not a place to be without God. Lil Homie has a passion for music and spends the majority of his time in studio making music. Homie's new album is due to be released in 2012 on New Years Day. Lil Homie also said Homie will be having a Listening Party On His Birthday Nov 11 , this is said to be a private event invitation only.
Eddie is the baby brother to the Smiley Family following in the footsteps of his Uncle Hosea Burnett who is a gospel singer and gospel runs deep in the Smiley family. Homie Also come's from A Slew of entertainers Comedian Rickey Smiley, DJ,Lincoln Ware,Gospel Artist Charles Fold , Les Brown. Homie has been around some of the greatest entertainers in the business but says he was to young thentruly the influence was there . When it comes to old school Cheryl The Pearl of the Sugarhill Gang was one of his moms favorite and he is looking to collab with some of the old school rappers. Music is universal he say and we need to have a sound that the old and young can both listen to, as well as the club banger for the young crowd. we need to have them for the old school , they cant move like us, Now Homie are you calling some of us old He responds with his big smile, and says no i am saying some of yall can't dance or wont dance the dances of today although you say you have done that and it just a rendition of what the old school use to do with a twist well the twist is what yall certain people who cant do & wont try the dance of today.There has got to be a medium for us all to enjoy music together as we have always done. Propaganda is a collaboration of artist with different styles we come together on some songs but we do our solo thing , we are a strong movement because we here to spread a message of music to the world, AI asks what kind of message are you spreading we are spreading what ever we feel needs to be heard we talk about reality situations that we see & some that we live.others are fantasy to leave
AI ask can you give us a sneak preview of your best song, well i cant reall say i have a favorite because as soon as i lay one down along come another right now my mind is filled with new music ther are some awesome producers out there and I plan on making music til i cant find a beat'.our music is selling now AI Asks? What about the other members of the group, well there is N.O "Robert Smith" of Alabama a solo artist with a new project GO HARD ,there is A.C of Atlanta & J.Street "Jamar Harris" of Hamilton Ohio who the second longest member of Propaganda the artist have been signed to Black Platinum Records with distribution through Island Def Jam Distribution management by Unruly South Entertainment Manager Tyrone Gullatt "De'Can Unruly South Music Management team rumors have it that Lil Homie will be doing collabs with lots of the old school, crew radio interviews & television Interviews & tours a are being locked in for the new & First Artist on Black Platinum 317 Records Manager Include The popular N.O of Black Platinum & Tha De"Con Of unruly South ENT. as well as some other big names that are in the background . The artist is scheduled for a full blown marketing campaign as so as the album is finished collabs have changed the album date the dated to 2012 because of all the new collabs which will include artist from Unruly South Entertainment Company.
Such as Young Shark, Zero T Boyz , Young Lava , Raymundo The Great, J Street & Akilah Brock
l . I personally cant wait to hear the black platinum sound that will come form these artist. Homie says he grew up listenin to some of the greatest and now i want a chance to work with them Al B Sure.
Sugar Hill Gang Furious five LLCool J. Keith Sweat , Patty Labelle, Whitney Huston, Brandy Mary J Blidge, Jayz, , Ciera, Kelly Rowland , Boyz 2 Men, Boyz N Da Hood , Naz, DMX , Fat Boyz,foxy brown Cheryl The Pearl , TLC, R Kelly, Outcast, UKG , Eminem ,the list goes on. well Homie we are listening
the Atlanta I Spy will be keeping the people informed on you next move.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Black People Lets Pull It Together. It's Our Time Stick Together!!!! Please

Georgia Remains Center of Death Penalty Controversy

MONDAY, 03 OCTOBER 2011 08:13

By George E. Curry, Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com –

Ray Charles sings about Georgia being on his mind. But, as Troy Davis was laid to rest last Saturday in Savannah, Georgia is also on the minds of distraught death penalty opponents who saw him executed on the basis of questionable evidence and despite an array of witnesses who had recanted their original testimony.

Georgia has been at the epicenter of the death penalty debate for almost four decades. It was a case from Georgia – Furman v. Georgia – that led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in 1972 that the death penalty was unconstitutional because it was being administered in an arbitrary and capricious manner.

After declaring a moratorium on executions, many states rushed to overhaul their capital punishment statues to comply with the new Supreme Court’s standard. In 1976 – Gregg v. Georgia – the court approved the modified death penalty statues of Georgia, along with those of Florida and Texas, while rejecting the approach adopted by North Carolina and Louisiana that required all people convicted of murder to be executed.

But it was the case of Troy Anthony Davis, an African-American from Savannah, that became Exhibit A in the re-energized movement to permanently outlaw the death penalty. His plight drew international attention as well as support from such unlikely sources as former President Jimmy Carter, conservative former U.S. Representative Bob Barr [R-GA] and former FBI director William Sessions.

Davis was convicted of murdering Mark MacPhail, an off-duty Savannah policeman moonlighting as a security guard. According to prosecutors, McPhail rushed to the aid of a homeless man who was being pistol-whipped by Davis. However, no gun was ever found, there was no DNA test linking Davis to the crime and more than a half-dozen witnesses have recanted or changed their original testimony.

One of the witnesses, Antoine Williams, signed an affidavit saying, “…After the officers talked to me, they gave me a statement to sign and told me to sign it. I signed it. I did not read it because I cannot read.”

When it comes to the death penalty, race matters.

In 1990, a U.S. General Accounting Office report concluded, “In 82% of studies [reviewed], the race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e., those who murdered whites were found more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.”

According to the Death Penalty Information Center (PDF), 76 percent of the murder victims in cases that resulted in executions were White, although only 50 percent of murder victims are White. Of defendants executed for murdering someone of the opposite race, 17 were White – including Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed in Texas the same night as Troy Davis for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas – and 254 were Black.

A study of 2,000 potential death penalty cases in Georgia led by Professor David Baldus of theUniversity of Iowa found that the odds of receiving the death penalty in Georgia were 4.3 times greater if the defendant killed a White person than if he had killed an African-American. A report prepared for the American Bar Association found the multiplier was 4.4 in North Carolina and 5.5 in Mississippi.

While race matters, it’s not the only thing that matters.

A 2007 investigation by the Cincinnati Enquirer found that judges on the U.S. court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which covers Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, voted consistently along party lines. Judge Nathaniel Jones, who retired from the circuit, told the Enquirer: “It’s a roll of the dice. When I look at a lineup of a panel in this kind of case, you can almost go to the bank on what the result is going to be.”

And the numbers support that view.

The newspaper figures show that federal judges appointed by George H.W. Bush voted 50-4 against granting inmates’ capital murder appeals. Appointees of George W. Bush voted 34-5 against granting such appeals. Reagan judges voted 39-13 against the requests. By contrast, Carter appointees voted 31-4 in favor of granting inmates’ appeals. Bill Clinton’s appointees were not as firm, voting 75-32 in favor of the appeals.

“Statistics like these do not prove that judges’ decisions are influenced by their political leanings, but the stark contrast in outcomes strongly suggests that judgments in death penalty cases are subjective and influenced by other factors that interject a high degree of arbitrariness into the process,” concluded a report by the Death Penalty Information Center titled, “Struck by Lightning: The Continuing Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty.”

Still other factors also determine the fate of murder suspects.

“The system is too fraught with variables to survive,” observed H. Lee Sarokin, a retired federal appeals court judge. “Whether or not one receives the death penalty depends upon the discretion of the prosecutor who initiates the proceeding, the competence of counsel who represents the defendant, the race of the victim, the race of the defendant, the make-up of the jury, the attitude of the judge, and the attitude and make-up of the appellate courts that review the verdict.”

The next execution in Georgia is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 12, exactly two weeks after Troy Davis was put to death in Jackson, Georgia. Both Angela Sizemore, the victim in that case, and Marcus Ray Johnson, the man convicted of murdering her, are White.

Don’t expect any all-night vigils in support of Johnson. Do not look for any signs proclaiming, “I am Marcus Johnson.” And don’t expect protests in Paris or anywhere else proclaiming Johnson’s innocence.

According to a summary of the case filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in the early morning hours of March 24, 1994 Johnson met Sizemore at Fundamentals, a west Albany bar. Sizemore had attended a memorial for an acquaintance the previous day and had been drinking so heavily that the bartender stopped serving her. Witnesses said Johnson was deeply upset that another woman had spurned his advances early in the evening.

A court filing said, “The bar owner and its security officer (who both knew Johnson) testified that they saw Johnson and Ms. Sizemore kissing and behaving amorously.” The couple left the bar around 2:30 a.m.

“In a statement, Johnson said he and the victim had sex in the vacant lot and he ‘kind of lost it.’ According to Johnson, the victim became angry because he did not want to ‘snuggle’ after sex and he punched her in the face…”

That’s not all he did.

“Johnson sexually assaulted Sizemore with the limb of a pecan tree, which was shoved into her vagina until it tore through the back wall of her vagina into her rectum,” the court filing recounted. “…Jackson also cut and stabbed Sizemore 41 times with a small, dull knife.”

Johnson’s trial lasted from March 23 to April 7, 1998. He was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and rape. He was sentenced to death on the malice murder charge, life imprisonment for rape and 20 years for aggravated battery.

In an unusual twist, the prosecutor was Gregory W. Edwards, who later became the first Black District Attorney in Dougherty County, and the presiding judge was another African-American, Willie Earl Lockette, now the Chief Judge on Dougherty Superior Court in Albany.

As of January, 3,251 persons were on death row. There were 103 in Georgia, including Troy Davis and Marcus Johnson. Nationally, 42 percent of those on death row are Black, although African-Americans make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population. Latinos represent 12 percent of those awaiting execution.

The American Bar Association (ABA) called for a moratorium on all executions in 1997, a resolution that remains in effect.

“Two decades after Gregg, it is apparent that the efforts to forge a fair capital punishment jurisprudence have failed,” the ABA resolution stated. “Today, administration of the death penalty, far from being fair and consistent, is instead a haphazard maze of unfair practices with no internal consistency.”

Even Ray Charles can see that.

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Waka Flacka Flame Punched In Face Hold Up Waka Get's Revenge

Waka Flocka Gets Punched In The Face Then Runs Away? [VIDEO]

Written by Shamika Sanders on October 3, 2011 9:12 am

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More video footage has surfaced from Waka Flocka’s Bowling for Charity event, this time showing him getting punched in the face…TWICE! Waka, who is standing alone, (where are his body guards?) was approached by several men when one swung on him. Waka attempted to fight back when another man punched him. Waka then ran away. Luckily the punches didn’t look too hard!

Waka Flocka Caught On Video Fighting

Stand Gospel Concert Coming To Atlanta

The STAND Campaign, which was founded in 2007 by Cory Condrey, raises awareness of Jesus Christ through love and evangelism. Starting with a Sunday church service, the campaign has grown into multiple rallies, gatherings and evangelistic outreachTens of thousands are expected to turn out for an evangelistic rally featuring a line-up of African-American Christian speakers and Gospel music performers at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta Saturday.

An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 are expected to attend the admission-free event, Stand 2010, a Georgia Dome spokeperson told The Christian Post. The rally is part of The Stand Campaign which seeks to raise awareness of Jesus Christ through love andevangelism. The campaign was founded in 2007 by Christian radio personality Cory "CoCo Brother" Condrey who will co-host the Atlanta rally alongside his wife. Participants will be called to take a stand as "one body" as they listen to performances from Gospel artists including Jason Upton,Israel Houghton, Donnie McClurkin, Vicki Yohe, and Bryon Cage.Speakers will include Dr. Bernice King, Bishop Paul S. Morton and Pastor Jamal Bryant. One of the main scheduled speakers, Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in Atlanta, may skip the event after lawsuits that accuse the minister of sexual coercion were recently filed. Four young men from Long's congregation have taken legal action against the minister whom they claim used his spiritual authority to coerce them in to sexual relationships. Like us on Facebook

Long has denied the allegations. Last week, his attorneys filed an official response to the suit filed by Jamal Parris, stating, "Bishop Long denies that he engaged in any sexual conduct with plaintiff Jamal Parris or any other spiritual sons."

New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Monday responded to the allegations against its head pastor by admitting that he took the four men on trips but saying it could neither confirm nor deny the allegations.

Art Franklin, a spokesman for Long, has confirmed that Long will appear Saturday while Condrey has told radio listeners that the Atlanta minister may not show up, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

The Atlanta event comes after the Stand Campaign held a series of Jesus Rallies across the nation. The latest evangelistic rally was held in Washington D.C. in August.

Stand 2010 will be held 6:00-10:00 p.m at the Georgia Dome. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.

Free tickets to the rally can be downloaded at the event's website: www.thestandcampaign.com.

Performers Include Canton Jones http://youtu.be/4Afs0CRxaOg

Tens of thousands are expected to turn out for an evangelistic rally featuring a line-up of African-American Christian speakers and Gospel music performers at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta Saturday.

Participants will be called to take a stand as "one body" as they listen to performances from Gospel artists including Jason Upton,Israel Houghton, Donnie McClurkin, Vicki Yohe, and Bryon Cage.

Speakers will include Dr. Bernice King, Bishop Paul S. Morton and Pastor Jamal Bryant.

One of the main scheduled speakers, Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in Atlanta, may skip the event after lawsuits that accuse the minister of sexual coercion were recently filed.

Four young men from Long's congregation have taken legal action against the minister whom they claim used his spiritual authority to coerce them in to sexual relationships.

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The Atlanta event comes after the Stand Campaign held a series of Jesus Rallies across the nation. The latest evangelistic rally was held in Washington D.C. in August.

Stand 2010 will be held 6:00-10:00 p.m at the Georgia Dome. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.

Free tickets to the rally can be downloaded at the event's website: www.thestandcampaign.com.

Performers Include Canton Jones http://youtu.be/4Afs0CRxaOg