Charity

This past Saturday radio station WJLB 98FM used the Northland Mall to host a Coats for Kids drive event but fights and gunfire shut down the fundraiser forcing rappers Bow Wow and Diggy Simmons to cancel their performance.

Here’s what Chevelle Potts from WJLB had to say:

“There were hundreds of people inside the mall to see several singers like Diggy Simmons and Bow Wow who were set to perform for the fundraiser, but the fighting broke out before they even took the stage. It was a lack of security, and we had to bring in the Southfield police.” Continue Reading…

In the months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, a charity run by hip-hop star Wyclef Jean spent a pittance of the money it took in on disaster relief and doled out millions in questionable contracts.

Yele Haiti’s raked in over $16 million in 2010, the most the charity had ever received. But less than a third of that went to emergency efforts, and $1 million was paid to a Florida firm that doesn’t seem to exist.

Jean’s charity, which he founded in 2005 with his cousin Jerry Duplessis, was already troubled when the earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. The NY Post reported in 2008 that it had never filed a required tax form detailing its spending with the IRS. Continue Reading…

Kool Keith is “Mr. Gerber” is now available on Itunes, Amazon, Spotify and all other digital music networks. All proceeds will be donated to charities that cater to dentistry for the kids…

Know why? So they don’t grow up still eating GERBER too mane!

Please support the cause!

Here is a true role model! It’s not about how you always conduct yourself as much as how you conduct yourself when it counts.

Braylon Edwards is sending 100 Cleveland high school students to college on his dime. This, even while he is currently unemployed.

In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their college tuition—a total value of $1 million—if they maintained grade point averages at 2.5 or higher and performed 15 hours of community service. The students lived up to their end of the bargain, and Edwards is a man of his word.

Edwards had this to say: Continue Reading…

Hi Jacky, I started a new blog. My goal and focus to to teach women to work together, their worth and help them understand their position as women. Thank you for the support you gave me with Cali Gold artist and I would love your support for my new foundation, Women Empowering Women. Much Love Jacky.

Hi Debra, I appreciate you as a reader and I wish you the best with your new foundation. I love women of all races, shapes and sizes, so if there’s anything that I can do for you with your “Women Empowering Women” foundation let me know.

Know why? Because I’m down with it. I think we should all especially concentrate on the teenager who is forced to become a woman overnight from being a single parent. Those girls need our help! Myself and HSK have love for you too, Debra.

Sincerely Yours,
~ Jacky

Women Empowering Women