Digitimes, the often unreliable source for gadget scoops, is reporting that Google will take on the Amazon Kindle in the ongoing tablet Armageddon. STORY: Kindle Fire Tablet Just Another Killer On The Loose! The Taiwanese site claims that the Google-made tablet will outsell and undercut Amazon’s already affordable $199 Kindle Fire with an even lower price. […]

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by Russell Simmons Two weeks ago, I went back to my old neighborhood of Hollis, Queens, to support the launch of the pilot program of The national Peacekeepers, an initiative that seeks to deter crime and violence by introducing a strong presence of community men into unstable neighborhoods to make their streets safe for women, […]

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The Godfather of Hip-Hop,Russell Simmons, wants to launch a corps of citizen peacekeepers in Trenton in response to last month’s gang rape of a 7-year-old girl. The co-founder of Def Jam Records, in conjunction with Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer, aims to provide the city with a way to help itself in the wake of the […]

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by Russell Simmons My heart and thoughts go out to the families who have been hurt in the unfortunate raping of a 7 year-old girl in Trenton, NJ last week.  Although I’m a supporter, I’ve decided not to attend the peace rally this Saturday, April 10th in Trenton.   There has been a lot of misinformation […]

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My heart and thoughts go out to the families who have been hurt in the unfortunate raping of a 7 year-old girl in Trenton, NJ last week.  Although I’m a supporter, I’ve decided not to attend the peace rally this Saturday, April 10th in Trenton.   There has been a lot of misinformation spread regarding those […]

I AM A PEACEKEEPER. This was the rallying cry heard throughout the neighborhoods of Hollis and Jamaica, Queens today as hundreds of people rockin’ bright orange jackets took the streets to kick off the amazing new anti-violence campaign, PEACEKEEPERS. The Peacekeeper initiative deters crime and violence by introducing a strong presence of community men into […]

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I AM A PEACEKEEPER. This was the rallying cry heard throughout the neighborhoods of Hollis and Jamaica, Queens today as hundreds of people rockin’ bright orange jackets took the streets to kick off the amazing new anti-violence campaign, PEACEKEEPERS. The Peacekeeper initiative deters crime and violence by introducing a strong presence of community men into […]

If you are in NYC, join Russell and many other stars tonight in Harlem to strike out the violence!

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I first met Emmanual Jal at the 2009 United Nations Peace Keeping Concert in NYC,  a Sudanese hip hop artist who as child soldier in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and at 8 years old was given an AK-47 and forced to fight in Sudan’s brutal civil war that raged from 1983 and 2005. […]