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Rick Ross showed his idol Dr. Dre a good time during his trip to Miami this week. The West Coast vet flew into town to hit the studio with the Maybach Music boss, but also made time to celebrate. "Got Dr. Dre in Miami all week..my Bday party @ Club Amnesia Hosted by @iamdiddy Sunday will be like never before," tweeted Rozay, who earlier received a call from Dre. DJ Khaled hinted at what's to come. "I told yall the game was going change well hre's a gift," he wrote. "stay tuned!"

Comedian Chris Rock has credited the recent pairing of Jay-Z and Kanye West with their platinum-selling "Watch the Throne," joint album for fueling plans to hook-up with estranged stand-up comic Dave Chappelle for a standup tour.

Halle Berry has been interviewed by officials from Los Angeles' Child Protective Services over allegations her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry endangered the welfare of their three-year-old daughter.

Vanessa Bryant, the former wife of the Kobe Bryant has once again turned down a huge sum of money to appear on "Basketball Wives," the reality TV series that follows the lives of women married to basketball players.

Jada Pinkett-Smith is launching a new TV talent show with Simon Cowell. The pair will judge the world's best DJs.

Viola Davis (The Help) appears to be in a fighting mood regarding her upcoming battle with Meryl Streep at the Oscars in February 2012. Streep is favored to take home the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in 'The Iron Lady,' but Davis has generated a healthy fanbase of her own-ahead of the ceremony in Los Angeles.

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"UNSOLVED & MYSTERIOUS" (CASES INVOLVING AFRICAN AMERICANS)

Feb. 28, 1983 in St Louis:

26 years ago two men went into an abandoned building at 5635 Clemens Avenue scavenging for copper. Amid filth and debris, the two men stumbled on the body of a girl about 9 years old (African American). She had been murdered, raped and decapitated. Her hands were tied behind her back with a red-and-white nylon rope. She was wearing only a dirty yellow orlon sweater with the label cut out. She had two layers of red nail polish on her fingernails.

The girl had medium-to-dark skin, was about 4 feet 10 inches and weighed about 70 pounds. Her body showed no signs of previous abuse - no bruises, scars or broken bones, and she appeared to be well-nourished. Because there was no blood at the scene, police suspect Jane Doe was murdered and decapitated somewhere else and dumped into the basement of the building.

The child's body lay in the city morgue for several months. Jane Doe was finally buried Dec. 2, 1983, in a pauper's grave on the southern side of Washington Park Cemetery. Four mud-covered gravediggers carried her small, white casket adorned with a single spray of pink, white and yellow flowers. The ceremony lasted five minutes. Months later, a group of schoolchildren raised money to buy Jane Doe a tombstone.

The first African-American head of homicide, Leroy Adkins, now 71, was a year on the job at the time of Jane Doe's murder. Wanting to dispel the belief among many of the city's black residents that the police department cared more about white victims than black ones, Adkins immersed himself in the case. He organized meetings in the black community, urging residents to help. He wrote letters to the St. Louis American, Ebony and Jet magazines.

Adkins' tired eyes reflect the frustration and resignation that come from this infuriating case. The nightmares are gone, but harrowing memories linger. Jane Doe, he says, enters his mind when he's reading the paper, watching television, in the quiet-time moments before sleep.

His wife, Glenda, knows the case nearly as well as her husband. For years she's been the sounding board for her husband's unanswered questions.

"There's just so much wonderment in this story," she says. "You wonder why no one is missing a child of this age. Where is the family? What about her schoolmates? Her friends? How could no one report her as missing?"

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A studious and popular Brooklyn teenager left her apartment to walk down the street to meet a friend, and then pick up an application for a summer job. She never showed up to meet her friend or get the application, and four days later, her body was found strangled and stuffed into a garbage bag.

Friends and family call Chanel Petro-Nixon the "perfect" kid. She got straight A's, went to church every Sunday, and lit up a room with her smile.

Pamela Hester-Jones has been on the sidewalks of Albany Park, asking questions. She has taped fliers to light poles, storefront windows, bus stops. She wants answers.

Who killed her son (Lazarus)? Who took a hammer to her 13-year-old's head? Who left him bleeding and brain-dead on a sheet of ice outside a Northwest Side liquor store?

There are times when she wants to scream, when she wants to die. "How could they do my baby like this?"

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"WHO MURDERED THE LEAD SINGER OF A LOCAL R&B BAND?"

Introduction:

Tony Williams was a dashing playboy.  He loved fast cars and pretty women.  He wore designer suits, enjoyed fine dining and travel. 

His death remains an unsolved mystery.

Backstory:

Murdered Gold Coast singer Tony Williams, who once boasted he put the word sex in his R&B band "Sex 'N' Chocolate," had hundreds of lovers.

Williams was found dead in his Mermaid Waters home on Christmas Eve. He had been bashed over the head with a blunt object.

The discovery of his body prompted police to issue an appeal for any women who had a relationship with him, however short, to come forward.

Detective Superintendent David Hutchinson said the 38-year-old, New Zealand-born father-of-two was known to be a ladies' man.

Police sources said hundreds of women had come forward admitting they had relationships with Williams.

Police were shocked at the endless line of women who admitted to flings with the entertainer, sources said.

But police yesterday refused to comment on how many women had contacted them.

Gold Coast Detective Inspector Brian Swan said it would be inappropriate to disclose a figure.

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BLACK HISTORY:

Introduction:

Ell Persons was an African American man who was lynched on 22 May 1917, after he was accused of having raped and murdered a 16-year-old white girl, Antoinette Rappel, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. He was arrested and was awaiting trial when he was captured by a lynch party, who burned him alive and scattered his dismembered remains around town, throwing his decapitated head at a group of African Americans. A large crowd attended his lynching, which had the atmosphere of a carnival. The lynching, which was described as one of the most vicious in American history,[by whom?] did not lead to a single person being charged, but did play a part in the foundation of the Memphis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Backstory:

The alleged victim (Antoinette Rappel) was described as "innocent, pure, and pretty." Rappel was a student at Treadwell School in Memphis. On the morning of 30 April 1917, she left for school and did not return; on 2 May 1917 a newspaper published a story which said she left to join the war, a story her mother, Mrs Wood, reportedly believed. Later, Rappel was found dead, with evidence she had been raped, in woods near Macon Road and half a mile from the home of Persons, a nearly fifty year-old woodcutter.

She had been decapitated with an axe. At the scene, they found a white coat, a white handkerchief, and axe dents in the ground. After the arrests of several black men, the police brought in Persons, and subjected him to brutal treatment for 24 hours, after which the police said he confessed to the murder. Eager to prove Persons' guilt, Mike Tate, Shelby County sheriff, ordered that Rappel's body be exhumed so that they could look at her pupils, because the authorities thought that a photograph of the pupils could be used to show the last image seen by a person who had died, a theory developed by Alphonse Bertillon, a French biometrics researcher of that time. Despite being told by eye specialists that it would be impossible, the authorities said they saw Persons in Rappel's pupils—which showed a "frozen expression of horror"—and he was taken to Tennessee State Prison in Nashville to await arraignment and trial.

A few weeks later, on 19 May, Tate ordered that Persons be returned to stand trial on 25 May, and on 21 May, Persons was on a train to Memphis when he was captured by a lynch party, an event which was planned and which was reportedly anticipated by the authorities. The group had earlier stormed the Memphis police headquarters and did not find him there; knowing he had to return, they started searching trains bounded for Memphis. The press reported that the mob was organized—one newspaper reporting "That the mob ... is determined to lynch the Negro is evident.

The Commercial Appeal's headline on the day of the lynching, 22 May, read: "Mob captures slayer of the Rappel girl: Ell Persons to be lynched near scene of murder; May resort to burning."

The scene at Macon Road near the bridge on the day of the lynching was like a "holiday" according to one newspaper, many people having stayed overnight. In the morning hundreds of men, women, and children gathered, and by 9.00 a.m. the road was packed with automobiles. A total of about 5,000 people attended the event, which had a carnival-like atmosphere according to Goings and Smith. Spectators bought soft drinks, sandwiches, and chewing gum, women wore their best clothes, and parents excused their children from school. One teacher at a school had 50 boys absent. Because of examinations, some county schools closed early, allowing the children to attend. Two trucks of drinks sold out swiftly, and sales of sandwiches and chewing gum were high.

Having arrived separately to Persons at about 9.00 am, Rappel's mother gave a speech: "I want to thank all my friends who have worked so hard on my behalf ... Let the Negro suffer as my little girl suffered, only 10 times worse"—sentiments which were echoed by the crowd. Persons was chained down, had a large quantity of gasoline poured over him, and set alight. The leader of the group had asked Rappel's mother if she wanted to light it; she declined, but said she "wished Persons to suffer the tortures he dealt to his victim". Persons was reportedly calm and casual, and made no sound except for a "faint squeal" when set alight.

Members of the mob tried to help women who could not see get a better view, but they failed because of the sheer numbers. While Persons was burning, spectators snatched pieces of his clothes and the rope used to bind him. A newspaper described the moment of the lighting: "A crowd of some 5,000 men, women and children cheered gloatingly as the match was applied and a moment later the flames and smoke rose high in the air and snuffed out the life of the black fiend."

Persons' body was decapitated and dismembered, and his remains were scattered and displayed across Beale Street—the centre of the African American community in Memphis—where his head was thrown from a car at a group of African Americans. According to Charles W. Cansler, a spokesman for the local black community, his head was thrown into a room which contained black doctors. His remains were taken as souvenirs, and photographs of his head were sold on postcards for months after the event. The Commercial Appeal's headline the day after the lynching read: "Thousands cheered when negro burned: Ell Persons pays death penalty for killing girl."

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