In an age when the leading female hip-hop artist has crossed over to be a pop cultural icon, it may be hard to grasp the significance of one Ramona Scott, aka Ms. Melodie, the old school rapper whodied Tuesday. The Flatbush-born artist only had one album, which didn't sell many units. She wasn't a sex starlet like Lil' Kim or a transcendent performer like Queen Latifah.
But in the mid 1980s, when there were only a few female rappers of consistent note not named Salt, Pepper, Lyte or Roxanne Shanté, you can’t help but think of Melodie now as her own kind of hip-hop pioneer who often gets lost in the shuffle. Read More...
Explore More Over a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested after blocking traffic outside Rep. Dan Goldman’s Brooklyn office Wednesday while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza — just one day after the congressman voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her use of what he called a “hurtful antisemitic trope.”
The large group — who cheered “let Gaza live” and “cease-fire now” — camped out in front of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Democrat’s 9th Street and 5th Avenue office in Park Slope just before 6:30 p. Read More...
Much like his earlier debate comments about not saying Trump’s name, Christie pointedly attacked DeSantis for being afraid to answer directly whether Trump is fit to serve another term in the Oval Office.
“He’s afraid to answer. Either you’re afraid or you’re not listening,” Christie said.
He continued, saying, “This is the problem with my three colleagues. They’re afraid to offend. Let me tell you something, if you’re afraid to offend Donald Trump then what are you going to do when you sit across from [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping], you sit across from the Ayatollah, you sit across from [Russian President Vladimir] Putin? Read More...
