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On this day in 1963, 50 years ago, Dr. King delivered a speech that would be apart of American History forever.  50 years ago the US Government/FBI also had plan to kill Dr. King.

This is a letter sent to MLK anonymously by the FBI. It attempted to get King to kill himself before he could receive the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Accompanying the letter was a cassette that “contained allegedly incriminating audio recordings of King with women in various hotel rooms”

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#5. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris – 49,000 (49,000)

#6. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines – 46,000 (337,000)

#9. A$AP Ferg – Trap Lord – 32,000 (32,000)

#10. Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 30,000 (912,000)

#14. K. Michelle – Rebellious Soul – 23,000 (94,000)

#20. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 19,000 (1,000,000)

#36. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 9,000 (579,000)

#44. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 8,000 (1,000,000)

#49. Kanye West – Yeezus – 7,000 (517,000)

#56. Tech N9ne – Something Else – 7,000 (92,000)

#87. Eminem – Eminem Show – 4,000 (10,000,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

Written by/Starring Charlene deGuzman
Directed by Miles Crawford

Title / Weekend Gross (in million usd)

  1. Lee Daniels’ The Butler  $16.5 m
  2. We’re the Millers  $13 m
  3. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones $9.3 m
  4. The World’s End $8.7 m
  5. Planes  $8.5 m

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Source: forbes

A portion of ComScore's top 50 Web properties report for July 2013.

comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly ranking of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for July 2013 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service.  Yahoo is #1 for web traffic surpassing google for the first time since 2011.

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#2. K. Michelle – Rebellious Soul – 72,000 (72,000)

#4. Robin ThickeBlurred Lines – 48,000 (291,000)

#6. Jay ZMagna Carta Holy Grail – 37,000 (882,000)

#14. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 16,000 (998,000)

#28. Hoodie Allen – Americoustic EP – 11,000 (11,000)

#33. Tech N9ne – Something Else – 10,000 (85,000)

#36. Kendrick Lamargood kid, m.A.A.d. city – 9,000 (1,000,000)

#61. Kanye West – Yeezus – 6,000 (510,000)

#76. Stevie Stone – 2 Birds, 1 Stone – 4,700 (4,700)

#131. Aubrey O’Day – Between Two Evils – 3,000 (3,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

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The city of Detroit will receive more than half of $100 million in newly allocated federal funds to tear down dilapidated structures.

The city riddled with thousands of abandoned buildings will begin demolishing some of them later this month with the help of $52.2 million in federal money

source: detroitnews

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The next-generation PlayStation 4 will go on sale on Nov 15. in North America, Sony announced at its Gamescom press conference Tuesday. It will go on sale on Nov. 29 in Europe.

The PlayStation 4 will cost $399

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A struggling Chinese artist faked dozens of paintings as part of an elaborate $80 million New York art fraud, according to prosecutors.

Pei-Shen Qian is said to have created the works for Glafira Rosales, a dealer who sold them to galleries as genuine newly-discovered masterpieces by modernists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

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checkout Frecciarossa, Europe’s fastest train with service beginning in 2015

source: Bloomberg