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 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/566186/quinta-brunson-philly-city-council/ Source: Pamela Littky/ABC via Getty Images / Getty[/caption] From social media fame to Philly's City Council, what won't Quinta be celebrated for? Last week, West Philadelphia's own Quinta Brunson was honored by the City Council of Philadelphia for her work on ABC's Abbott Elementary . The honors were first brought up by Philly Councilmember At Large, Helen Gym. Councilmember Gym passed the resolution on January 27th, a month removed from Abbott Elementary's premiere. Helen Gym Tweet Abbott Elementary is a mockumentary style sitcom that focuses on the joys and struggles of being a public school teacher. More specifically, being a public school teacher within a large and major metropolitan area. ABC'S Abbott Elementary - Ava's Advice Writer, producer, creator and actor Quinta Brunson is the daughter of a kindergarten teacher in real life. Quinta's mother taught and ra...

"The Process" continues to excel in another extrodinary MVP caliber season. Joel Embiid is back as a NBA All-Star for a consecutive fifth appearance. He is the only Sixer to achieve this feat, since hoops legend Allen Iverson. Embiid is the fourth player in Philadelphia 76ers history to be named an All-Star starter at least five times. The only 76ers with more starting selections are Julius Erving (11), Dolph Schayes (11) and Iverson (8). Sixers Tweet Joel has been a beast this season. Its really an understatement. Embiid is the league’s third-leading scorer with a career-high 29.0 points per game along with 10.8 rebounds. That means he is 10th in rebounds league-wide, and 6th in the Eastern Conference. The future hall of famer is also averaging a career-high 4.3 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.4 blocks in 32.8 minutes per game. He’s the only NBA player with such averages this season. The Cameroonian legend backed up that physical and skillful prowess against the Los Angeles Lakers...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/560394/sidney-miller-jr-dies/ Sidney Miller Jr. was best known for being the founder and publisher of Black Radio Exclusive  (BRE) magazine. To aspiring Black entrepreneurs and lovers of Black music, he was a true pioneer. In 1976, Sidney Miller Jr. and his wife Susan Miller, launched one of the first Black-owned magazines to solely focus on Black music. The magazine ran from 1976 to 2016. Prior to the magazine's first issue, Sidney Miller Jr. was an aspiring trumpet player and a pre-med student at Florida A&M University (FAMU). Unfortunately for him, he didn't have the luxury of going to school for free so he had to find a way to make ends meet. That's where the origins of his music marketing genius began to blossom. While being a native in Florida he got understand the club circuit for most music acts. Luckily he had right people in mind to help get their music journey on the right track. Miller was classmates with Jazz mus...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/559185/cooper-hefner-hugh-hefner/   Source: Archive Photos / Getty[/caption] Hugh Hefner's as the face of Playboy has never been in question. Having run the company from 1953 to his passing in 2017, Hugh's influence shaped American media and beyond. What has been in question is the practices and means of obtaining such prominence. What happened within the walls of one of LA's coveted and envied houses? The true answers are only going to come from two sources. The house itself or the women who operated inside the Playboy Mansion. Luckily, the latter is choosing to speak up. A&E's  Secrets of Playboy  is a docuseries that is taking a closer look into stories and events that happened at within Playboy. The women who were in Playboy Enterprises are going to talk about the many scandalous things occurred during their time there. Former playmates including Holly Madison and Sondra Theodore were featured in the two-episode...

Source: Drazen Stader / EyeEm / Getty[/caption] This might be a distasteful blow to all the drinkers out there. The World Heart Federation has just declared that drinking any amount of alcohol is actually bad for the heart. The WHF just revealed a new policy brief detailing their distaste for the notion that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can decrease the risk of heart disease. The policy brief titled The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Cardiovascular Health: Myths and Measures , presents scientific and statistical facts that supports their case in the “harms versus benefit” debate. In 2019, more than 2.4 million people died because of alcohol, accounting for 4.3% of all deaths globally and 12.6% of deaths in men aged 15 to 49. The WHF believes drinking alcohol increases the risk of several cardiovascular problems, including coronary disease, heart failure, high blood pressure, stroke and aortic aneurysm. They see alcohol as an issue that can be an avoidable risk that people d...

Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/554678/doug-e-fresh-split-slick-rick/ Source: Daniel Boczarski / Getty[/caption] Every relationship has its ups and downs. In the late 1980s Hip-Hop progressors Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick had a falling out. Before the stage name Slick Rick The Ruler, Rick was the other MC of Doug E.'s The Get Fresh Crew. Outsiders believed jealously was the culprit that led to the breakup of their former NYC-bred friends. Some believed MC Ricky D's ambition pushed him away before pursuing a solo career. In 1986, MC Ricky D became Def Jam's third artist ever to be signed to their roster. With the production help of Russell Simmons' management company, Jam Master Jay and The Bomb Squad, Slick Rick The Ruler was unleashed onto the world. 1988's The Great Adventures of Slick Rick was released and the legend of Slick Rick was born. Doug E. and Get Fresh Crew members, Barry Bee and Chill Will, continued to gain success with their 1988 album Th...

Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/playlist/spike-lee-lifetime-achievement/ Source: Bruce Guthrie / Bruce Guthrie Photos[/caption] In March, Spike Lee is going to receive his 5th lifetime achievement award at the Directors Guild of America Awards. He has won previous lifetime achievement awards at the Academy Awards, Black Reel Awards, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards and NAACP Image Awards. Although this time the award will be specifically be about Spike's distinguished achievement in motion picture direction. From commercials to big budget featured films, Spike has done it all in his journey to create art. Critics and film associations have been giving Spike his flowers in recent years, especially after 2018's BlacKkKlansman . President Lesli Linka Glatter of the Directors Guild of America had no choice but acknowledge the greatness. Icon. Trailblazer. Visionary. Spike Lee has changed the face of cinema, and there is no single word that encapsulates his significa...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/552295/jamaican-bobsled-team-olympics/ The ice is about to get hotter than a beef patty because the Jamaican bobsleigh team is back. For the first time ever, Jamaica has qualified for three-bobsled events in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Jamaica will be representing the men's two-man and four-man, along with the woman's monobob. The men's four man team will be the country's first Olympic team in 24 years. The women's two-woman team are unfortunately in limbo considering they have lost in a tie-breaker. On the other hand, the Jamaican two-woman team is first in line to head to Beijing if any of the qualified nations were to dropout. Considering COVID-19's track record for the past three years and its 387 record cases at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, that is a strong possibility. Team Jamaica Tweet   Jamaica has sent out several men's two-man teams in the four-man's absence from Olympic competition. Th...

Source: Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images / Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images[/caption] Student loan servicer, Navient, gets caught in the act of being predatory. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro just announced that Navient, the nation's largest student loans supplier, will be handing money back. Navient is going to pay back $1.85 billion to resolve allegations of "widespread unfair, deceptive, and abusive student loan servicing practices and abuses in originating predatory student loans." The claims of the settlement date back to 2009 and it took a coalition of 39 attorneys general to get the job done. AG Josh Shapiro said the following to describe Navient's wrongdoing. Navient repeatedly and deliberately put profits ahead of its borrowers – it engaged in deceptive and abusive practices, targeted students who it knew would struggle to pay loans back, and placed an unfair burden on people trying to improve their lives through education. Today's settlement...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/545487/atlantic-city-indoor-water-park/ Atlantic City has been a city in need of family fun, maybe a highly expensive waterpark will satisfy that need. Philadelphia developer, Tower Investments Inc., has started construction on a $100 million indoor water park on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Tower Investments Inc. The development company has managed and built structures like The Inquirer Building in Logan Square, and luxury residential areas, The Piazza in Northern Liberties and Tower Place on North Broad Street. Some of these buildings do feature hi-rise pools, but this waterpark is on a whole different level. The 103,000-square-foot indoor waterpark will be called the Island Waterpark. Atlantic City's new waterpark will feature water slides, pools, a lazy river, food and beverage outlets, retails space, lounge areas, and a party room. There's also going to be a section for the adults that will feature a bevy of alcoholic beverages a...

Source: Evgeny Terentev / Getty[/caption] COVID-19 has been ravaging the streets for three years. For three years there have been much discussion on how alternative ways to receive the vaccine can help the world.   In late December of last year, U.S. regulators authorized the commercial use of COVID-19's newest objector. COVID-19 anti-viral pills have just arrived at pharmacies all around the country. The pills are supposed to be used by those who are experiencing mild or moderate COVID-19 symptoms, and are more susceptible to be being hospitalized. The pills aren't supposed to be used by everyone who gets a positive COVID-19 result, and not recommended for people already hospitalized with COVID-19. These are for EMERGENCY USE ONLY. As of right now, there are two options on the market, Pfizer's Paxlovid and Merck's molnupiravir. They both reduce the chances for people to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19, but Paxlovid has been tested to work better than molnupiravir...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/playlist/calvin-simon-dies-funkadelic/ On January 6, P-Funk members Bootsie Collins and George Clinton confirmed the death of one their own. One of P-Funk's original vocalists, Calvin Simon, has died at age 79. Bootsie and George took to social media to announce their friend's passing. Bootsie Collins Bootsie Post George Clinton George Clinton Post George, Bootsie, and the rest of the 15 member crew of Parliament-Funkadelic have known each other for a long time. Calvin Simon in particular has been with the group since the late 50s. Calvin trained his voice at age 13, while working in a barber shop. The first group he joined were The Crystals, before meeting the boys of Parliament. Back then, The Parliaments were a doo-wop group that featured fellow artists Grady Thomas, George Clinton, Ray Davis and Fuzzy Haskins. In 1955, the backroom of a barber shop in Newark, New Jersey became their studio. Calvin ,George and Grady were all workin...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/542036/ida-b-wells-barbie/ Ida B. Wells' posthumous resume just keeps growing. Memphis Free Speech 's greatest journalist is going get her own Barbie doll this year. Ida B. Wells is going to be a part of the Barbie Inspiring Woman Series. The collection was founded on International Women's Day back in 2018, and it already stars an inspiring cast of historical figures. Some of the leading ladies featured are Rosa Parks, Katherine Johnson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Maya Angelou. Rosa Parks [caption id="attachment_542259" align="alignnone" width="700"] Source: Barbie/Mattel / Barbie/Mattel[/caption] Ida B. Wells More Ida Imagery   As you can see, Ida's Barbie figure dons a blue dress with lace details at the bodice, collar and waist. Of course a copy of a Memphis Free Speech newspaper is an accessory that she carries with her. Writing has always been her passion. Her work as an early civil rights leader,...

Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/playlist/aaliyah-posthumous-album/   Source: Jeffrey Mayer / Getty[/caption] Aaliyah's legacy will continue to live on, but not without rocking the boat. Aaliyah's uncle, Barry Hankerson, has confirmed that Aaliyah's first posthumous album is on its way. The album titled, Unstoppable , is set to release this month. He broke the news during a 21-minute conversation with Chicago radio personality, Geno Jones. Barry Hankerson Clip Barry Hankerson is the founder of Aaliyah's former label, Blackground Records. He also was her manager during that time. Geno opened up the conversation asking Barry how this new Aaliyah project came to be. "Well about five years ago we realized had quite a bit of music that we have never put out, that was recorded by Aaliyah, the vocals were there, " Barry continued. "And we decided to try to remaster it and to ask other artists that were big fans of hers if they would like to participate ...

Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/538681/jean-michel-basquiat-biopic/ Source: NETFLIX © 2021 / Monster[/caption] Jean-Michel Basquiat's story and art will never cease to amaze. In fall of 2022, SAMO LIVES will begin to demonstrate the life and celebrate the legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film will take us through the ups and downs of the famed Haitian-Puerto Rican-American artist. The biopic will be directed by Nigerian-American Julius Onah who wrote and directed the enticing psychological warfare film Luce . Luce Trailer Julius Onah has brought along the star of Luce to play the role of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Julius Onah seem to have built quite the chemistry to continue working together. Kelvin announced the news on his Instagram. Kelvin Harris Jr. - Instagram Kelvin's Post There's a reason Kelvin was a nominee at the Film Independent Spirit Awards for best lead, the guy can act. Prior to this upcoming biopic, Jean Michel-Basquiat...

  Another member of the 80s R&B group, Force MD's has died. Jessie Lee Daniels, known as Jessie D, has died at 58-years-old. The news was confirmed through the remaining two Force MD's members Rodney "Khalil" Lundy and "Stevie D." Lundy. The group's Facebook page then issued a heartfelt post. Force MD's Post   The Force MD's were most known for their 1985 hit Tender Love. Force MD's - "Tender Love" The tributes continued to pour in from people all around. 1. MC Debbie D (Jessie's Sister)  Debbie D Post 2. Questlove Questlove Post 3. LL Cool J LL Post 4. MC CharlieRock of The Harlem World Crew HarlemWorld7885 Tweet 5. Breakbeat Lou Lou Post Jessie D's cause of death is still unknown.  The Force MD's came up in the world from their way of Staten Island. In 1981, the group was composed of brothers Stevie D., Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy, and Rodney "Khalil" Lundy, along with their uncle Jessie Lee Daniels...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/535215/anthony-anderson-tracee-ellis-ross-blackish/ Anthony Anderson admits Tracee Ellis Ross was not a fan. Black-ish is coming to a close at the end of the show's current and 8th season. Co-stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross have spent their time as the heads of the Johnson family. Their chemistry throughout the 8 years on the sets of Black-ish has led them to several awards, including Tracee's first and only Golden Globe. It wasn't until Anthony Anderson's recent interview with Parade Magazine , Anthony revealed that Tracee really didn't like him prior to Black-ish . Its difficult to see these two not getting along with each other, but its true. “I knew Tracee prior to  Black-ish ,” Anderson said. “We laugh about this now, but Tracee didn’t like me for maybe 10 years! We hosted the Vibe Awards [in 2005]. As we were walking onto the stage, there was a loud sound over the speaker, and I said, “Tracee? Did you far...

 Original Post:  https://classixphilly.com/534124/janet-jackson-documentary/ Source: Andrew Vo / Global Grind[/caption] For the first time ever, Janet Jackson will share her journey with the public. On New Year's Day, Lifetime and A&E posted a new three minute trailer for the unexpected documentary featuring the legend. The documentary, titled Janet , will be aired in two parts and will span about four hours in total. On Friday, January 28 spectators will have a chance to see unseen footage covering Janet's time in and out the spotlight. We will be invited to see intimate Jackson home videos and Janet tour footage. Celebrities guests are even popping out the wazoo to give their incite and stories with the icon. Celebrities that include Missy Elliot, Whoopie Goldberg, Tyler Perry, Mariah Carey and Q-Tip just to name a few. Even Jackson family members like Rebbie, Tito and Katherine are involved to speak about Janet and the family. Check the Janet trailer below. Janet Trai...