Lottery Larceny, HBCU Rankings, Tupac Verdict & the Best Black Movies Ever

[00:00:12] Alright y'all, get ready for another edition of Newz and Trendz with your host Dave and Len. Welcome, welcome, welcome to News and Trendz with Dave and Len. This is one of your hosts, Mr. Dave Coker, proprietor Dave Mark Inc., promoter, event planner, and all around good guy.

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[00:01:06] and his partner, Mr. Bobby Keys at 10 a.m. on Saturday mornings. That's DJ Rives and his partner, Bobby Keys on 101.5 The Fever. You can listen to the playback of our show. Hanging out with my partner, Mr. Leonard Young. What's going on, sir? Hey Dave, all is good. This is Leonard Yeo, CEO of National Black Guide, DelawareBlack.com, Black media expert, all around good guy. How you doing, Dave?

[00:01:35] All right, man. All right. September 1st, man. I know. Flying by. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. We were just talking about the beginning of August. You know, this was last month, you know, you know, before everybody go back to school and here it is. Everybody back in school. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, well, just about. I guess we got a few people that don't go until next week, but. Yeah.

[00:02:00] Yeah. But summer, summer is just about over in the year. It's just about. We're, we got through three quarters, three quarters of the year now. So, you know, just about. So, did you have any plans for the upcoming holiday?

[00:02:18] For late. Oh, so, and I mean, we kind of put it together a little last minute, but we've already gotten some traction, but we're going to be doing a seafood fest at the campground on Sunday. So, no, no crabs. We're going to have some of everything else. Shrimp, you know, fish, clams, you know, all type of stuff. So, that's going to be the Sunday at the campground.

[00:02:42] So, that will probably be my, my celebration slash my, you know, my, my working of the weekend. Okay. So, now will that be outside or inside or. No, it's going to be inside. Okay. Do I have any salmon? Yes, I think so. I think. All right. Come on, Dave. Come on, come on. Make that drive on down to. What time are you all starting? So, it's five. It's going to be about five to seven on Sunday. Five to seven on Sunday.

[00:03:12] Okay. Yeah. Because we ain't got to work that next day. That's right. I know. Yeah. You get out of church and just come on, come, come right down. Don't, don't even stop at the house. I definitely going to bring my appetite if I come down here. So, I mean, definitely. Okay. That's good to know. Are you posting that anywhere? Yes, I am. So, I know it's on our campground page. I think I put it a couple other places, but I probably need to share it again. Yeah. Tag me too as well. All right.

[00:03:41] I mean, other than that, you know, Dave, I'm all about quiet weekends now. So, you know, other than that. You're getting old. You start to realize that kind of stuff, man. You appreciate it. I know. Yeah, no, you're right. You are right. Yeah. I think that's about what about you? Any plans, any concepts of a plan?

[00:04:01] You know what? Not, not yet. I mean, I haven't really thought about it that much because, you know, these, these, oh, well, I know we have a, there's a big, on Labor Day itself, go to, there's a big union rally.

[00:04:17] They have the parade downtown. And then they have, you know, a lot of the candidates and public officials. They speak and everything at the parade. They show up to the parade. And then we have a picnic barbecue type thing afterwards at Banning Park. Right. So that's where I'll be on Labor Day. But that's, that's about all, that's all I could see at the moment. Unless I make my way down to your place on Sunday.

[00:04:47] Yeah. So we'll see. We, we will see. Let's see. And you were out of town this weekend. You, man, you know, it's funny. We just got through with the August Corley and, you know, and then, you know, big shout outs to everybody involved with that. It looked like it was a major success.

[00:05:07] I know you had, you've been to a couple of times over the week and whatever, but I saw a lot of the pictures and everything and everybody looked like they had a great time. Yeah. I saw some pictures the day of Sunday and I mean, your, your park, Harriet Tubman Park looked packed. It was packed over there from what I could see. It looked like they had a good turnout. Yeah, they did.

[00:05:32] They had, um, some of the, um, performance they had over there. It's funny because, uh, later on that evening, I just happened to, I was scrolling through on the television and I saw that they had the gospel seller awards on and a couple of the acts who were there at the park that day had won some of the top awards at the stellar awards. Oh, really?

[00:05:57] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The, what's her name? Nina Knowles, I think her name is. And she performed at the, at the August Corley. She won like, what was the top artist of the year or something like that? Oh, wow.

[00:06:12] And then there was another guy and I can't think of his name right now, but he was, he was also at the, he was also at on the stellar awards because you know, they had pre-taped it. He was on there and he was at the August Corley too. And I said, Oh, they got some of the top people, you know, some of the top new artists, you know?

[00:06:31] Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, you know, Dave, that kind of goes with, and you know how you hear stuff where you don't really ever pay attention. I've always heard of, or maybe not always heard, but recently heard of Reach Gospel. Yes. But I feel like I saw that they're based out of Delaware. They're based out of Faith City Church. That's where the radio station is anchored at. Did I hear that before?

[00:06:57] I might have. Yeah. Yeah. But I know they got it. They got a big following. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:07:14] I mean, and they, you know, they had a big, everybody who was anybody. It seemed like everybody was over there at that park that we did. Yeah. So, and then they started, you know, they kicked it off, you know, Saturday night and over there at downtown. No, that was Friday night, I guess. Friday night. Yeah. With Best Kept's Hole and the white party they did over there. Yeah.

[00:07:38] So, yeah, it looked like a good event. It really did. No, I'm glad that they were able to do everything that they did because, you know, of course, you know, a few months ago, you know, they, you know, Mother Church was, you know, unfortunately, you know, we heard all about the burning down of the church and everything and for them to be able to pull this together and have everything to go the way they did. And if it's a great, it was a great event. Yeah.

[00:08:10] So, congratulations on that. Well, we got a couple of stories to talk to you guys about today. So I guess we're going to go ahead and get started. I saw this story and I was just like, wow, that's all I can say was wow. But man allegedly stole lottery tickets during his job interview. Mm-hmm. And for his trouble, he won $5 in his face and charges.

[00:08:40] So, listen to the story. Job interviews can cause anxiety and nervousness, especially in the economy with rising living costs and stagnant wages. However, police say in one North South Carolina man used a job interview as a cover to commit a crime, stealing lottery tickets and later attempting to cash them in. Antonio LeVon Ricardo Stewart. This guy got four names. Right. So that's to tell you something right there.

[00:09:10] Gallivant Perry was interviewing for a job at Murphy USA, a large retailer of gasoline products and convenience store merchandise in Florence, about 70 miles of Myrtle Beach. Stewart, Stewart 36 was allegedly captured on surveillance for the stealing scratch-all tickets from the Murphy USA on South Irby Street during a job interview in May of 2025.

[00:09:38] According to South Carolina law enforcement division, to the arrest warrant that they issued. It says, after the reported theft, Stewart allegedly tried to pass the lottery tickets at three other stores on camera, two of which were elsewhere on Irby Street, according to the News 19.

[00:10:05] Of the tickets he's accused of redeeming at the store, he won a grand total of $5. Over a year later, SLED, S-L-E-D, charged Stewart with three counts of intent to defraud counterfeit game tickets. The 12th Circuit's solicitor's office is prosecuting the case. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was booked into Florence County Detention Center.

[00:10:35] Stewart allegedly also stole scratch-off tickets from several stores in Florence County as well. In South Carolina, attempting to defraud the state lottery by redeeming stolen or altered scratch-offs is classified as a felony under state law. In South Carolina, carrying penalties up to $50,000 in fines or five years in prison per count.

[00:11:01] And ineligibility to win any prizes or hold employment with the state lottery officials have made it clear that attempting to game the system comes with several legal consequences. A reality several South Carolina residents have recently learned the hard way. Listen to this. Among them is John Franklin Kuhn, K-O-O-N.

[00:11:29] A 47-year-old Piedmont resident who was just charged with intent to defraud counterfeit game tickets after he was identified by store staff and recorded by surveillance cameras stealing lottery tickets, the state reported. Kuhn and Leslie stole the tickets from a shop, a mini store in Greenville County where he worked.

[00:11:57] According to an arrest warrant, on July 1st, Kuhn tried to redeem the scratch-off tickets at the same gas station. Dummy. Then there was Stacy Ann McFarlane. Leslie stole and redeemed nearly 100 lottery tickets from a refueled gas station near Hartsville where she worked in April. The stolen tickets were redeemed for cash prizes worth $1,160.

[00:12:27] So at least she got a little bit of money, you know. But these guys are stealing from the places that they work at. Right. You would think they would know the cameras are on them. Plus, Dave, think about how desperate you'd have to be to steal a lottery ticket. Well, it's got to be tempting. It's got to be tempting, though. But, you know, I only say in terms of, you know, you're not even guaranteed that you're stealing something valuable.

[00:12:56] That's true. But, you know, I mean, it's like nobody's guaranteed when they come in there and buy it. And they don't know what's going to happen until they scratch it off and they find out, you know. I guess they're figuring, hey, you know, because especially the scratch-off things, because, you know, these guys that are professional scratch-off people who buy the tickets a lot,

[00:13:17] they always figured that it's best to buy tickets either at the very beginning of the roll, the middle of the roll, or the last couple of tickets. So you actually have people that will walk in the store and say, what number is that ticket? Because you can go, they're all numbered. So if it's a high number, you know, that means it's towards the end. If it's a low number, that means it might be, you know, the beginning.

[00:13:45] So they want to know exactly where it is, so they'll know whether or not to buy those tickets or not. But so these guys who are probably stealing these, especially the scratch-offs, they're probably thinking to themselves, okay, this is probably, you know, it might be at the beginning or it might be at the end. And they're thinking that they might hit one of the jackpots. Because they usually say the good prizes are either at the beginning or the end of the roll. Right.

[00:14:12] Yeah, so they probably think they have a method as far as what they're doing. But obviously, they're not thinking about the cameras. Because the cameras are getting them. I mean, you know, you figure you're behind the counter. You know, you might slide one, you know, tear one off and put it, you know, thinking you're sliding it in your pocket or whatever or dropping it on the floor or whatever you're doing. But these guys are getting busted big time, you know?

[00:14:39] I mean, and I understand a lot of people are desperate right now to try to get money quick, you know? But I don't know. I mean, would you take a chance on that? Hell no. I definitely would not. I'm surprised this hasn't been reported more, though. Because, you know, when you had those type of temptations in front of you.

[00:15:06] And, you know, I'm sure that a lot of people probably have taken it. And they might have gotten away with it. Maybe at one time, you know, maybe got one and say, oh, I got away with this. But when you make your mistake is when you try to cash it at the same place you work. Right. Right. Yeah, that just makes no sense because they'll be wondering, did you buy this ticket? Or they go under the camera and they look and say, I don't see him purchasing any tickets. Yeah.

[00:15:37] And they probably have rules, too. They probably say if you're going to get tickets, then somebody else has to ring it up. Right. So, I don't know. So, this is not very smart on these people's part. But, you know, and as you can see with the penalties, the lottery people, they do not play with this stuff. So, you can go ahead and try it if you want to. You know, if you all of a sudden, you know, got a couple, you know, like $10,000 to $20,000 just out of nowhere.

[00:16:06] All of a sudden, I know that you've been on a lot of replace stealing tickets. I know. I know. That's right. Yeah. But, I just thought that was an interesting story. So, all you guys that are working in these places that sell lottery tickets and everything, just be aware of what could happen to you. And they're down south. So, you know, you don't want to get caught down south with this. Right. Yeah. All right. Moving on to our next thing.

[00:16:35] I figured if we do this, I know we did this a few years back. Heck, I think we talked about the top HBCUs. But I took a look and see if the list had changed. I thought it's a good time to bring this up since school just started and a lot of kids are back in school now or about to go back to school. So, I wanted to go over the best historically black colleges and universities, HBCU, and their rankings.

[00:17:02] So, it says here these historically black colleges and universities were compared with one another for these rankings. To be on the list, the school must be currently designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an HBCU to qualify for the U.S. News ranking.

[00:17:22] And HBCU also must be an undergraduate baccalaureate granting institution that enrolls primarily first-year, first-time students and must be a school that is part of the 2026, 2026 best college rankings. So, let's start. Well, I'm going to start at the end. Then we'll go to number one.

[00:17:51] Do you have a guess as to who number one is already? I feel like every year is usually Spelman. Oh, okay. All right. Well, we'll see if that's the case then. So, we're going to go with DeBerry. And like I said, who do you think number 10 is? I mean, I'd have to name them all to see who them are. But I mean, I feel like Delaware State is like 9 or 10, 8, 9, or 10. Okay. All right. So, you figure they're in the top 10 then, huh?

[00:18:21] Yeah, because I saw the rankings. Yeah, I know. Okay. All right. Okay. He's already ruining stuff, guys. All right. Anyway. Well, Dave, you know, these came out like a month ago. Maybe two months ago. I know, but not everybody's seen them, man. Okay. Come on. Stop. Just calm down. Okay. All right. Ain't no spoiler. Okay. Okay. So, number 10 is Delaware State University. Who would ever think, though, five, ten years ago, you know, Delaware State being in the top 10?

[00:18:51] Mm-hmm. Because things definitely were not looking good there for a moment, right? Yeah. They definitely changed. Yeah. They definitely changed. And, you know, we have to give kudos to Dr. Tony Allen down there. He's done a great job down there at that school. And, of course, they've had a real boost with the athletic program, especially over the last year and a half, you know, so with the changes that have been made down there with the basketball team and the football team down there.

[00:19:19] So, let me see. They said tuition and fees for out-of-state student is $21,206. For in-state students, it's only $11,213. They have 4,581 undergraduate enrolled. So, but they're ranked number 10.

[00:19:47] Ranked number nine was Morgan State University. But, you know, I thought that was a little high at first, but I see, you know, but lately I've been hearing they've been making some strides as well, like Delaware State too. So, they're starting to get better down there because I know they had a little rough spot there too, Morgan State. So, Morgan State is number nine. North Carolina A&T, number eight.

[00:20:16] Founded in 1891. It's hard to believe how a lot of these colleges were found in the 1800s. I know. Yeah, I mean, what did that look like back then? You know what I mean? You know, so, let me see. They said the school has 24% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. And the student-faculty ratio, oh, I got cut off. I didn't see what that was. Less than 20 students.

[00:20:46] That's interesting. So, they have small classrooms. That's good. I hate the large classrooms, man. I used to hate walking in there. You got 100 people in one classroom. So, tuition at that school located in Greensboro is 20,243. Out of state is 6,733. That's a big difference. Wow. Undergraduate enrollment is over 12,000 students at that time.

[00:21:15] Okay. Next up, we have Hampton University. Okay. Tuition is $31,512. Undergrad enrollment is over 3,700. Okay. Hampton University. Number six, Xavier. Xavier University of Louisiana. Oh, this is Xavier of Louisiana. Okay. Not the other one.

[00:21:45] Okay. Let's see. $30,042. They have a little over 2,600 in undergrads. All right. Let's see. Where do you think your school falls if they fall on this list at all? Okay. If they fall on that list. You got jokes. I feel like there's somewhere between four and six. Okay. All right. All right.

[00:22:16] That's a close. Yeah. Because you know, Fam U was ranked the number one public HBCU in the nation. So... How long ago was that? Within the last 12 months. Oh, okay. All right. Well, here, they're number five. Yeah. Founded in 1887. I love that. Yeah. On the highest of seven hills. Yeah. You like saying that. Yeah.

[00:22:44] And Dave, you know, I learned something new the other day. I was watching this other video. And the mascot is the rattlers because on this hill where Fam U was founded, there were a lot of rattlesnakes. And I mean, of course, you know, a lot of times we hear mascots and, you know, we're like, oh, I should have guessed. But to be honest, I've never heard anybody say that, which, of course, it makes sense, you know, with the rattlers. But, you know, I just thought it was interesting. Did you ever see any snakes down there?

[00:23:14] I'm not on campus. Oh, okay. Because, you know, them black people would have gone running for the hills. I know. Now, let me see. They're out of state. It was only 17,000. That's my bad. In-state was 5785. Undergraduate enrollment at this time was over 7800. That's big. Okay.

[00:23:44] Number four. Tuskegee University. Founded in 1881. Well, tuition and fees, 25,386. Undergrad enrollment at this time was 2659. That's relatively small. But that school must not be. That school is not that big, though, right? Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So, I've never been there.

[00:24:15] So, that was number four. So, who do you think are the top three? Just hold the top of your head. Spellman, Morehouse, Howard. Okay. All right. Spellman, Morehouse, and Howard. Yeah. I just ruined your fund, didn't I? I just ruined your list for you. Number three. Number three was Howard University. Founded in 1867.

[00:24:43] Over 38,000 students. Almost 39. Undergraduate enrollment, 11,519. That was a little over a year or so ago. Of course, very popular school. Everybody knows about the Bisons. All right. Wait, hold on. Happened to... Well, I haven't finished that page, but I know you are right.

[00:25:12] Number two was Morehouse. And, of course, if Morehouse was number two, you know who number one is. Mm-hmm. Okay. Which was a Spellman. Spellman, over 32,470 at this time. And, of course, it's gone up. This year. And undergraduate enrollment was 2712. So, number one, Spellman.

[00:25:41] And Spellman, you know, Spellman and Morehouse have been, I'm going to say the three top schools. Spellman, Morehouse, and Howard have been kind of the pace setters as far as these schools are concerned. But it's nice to see schools moving around as far as, like, four through ten. You know, because, I mean, Tuskegee is always going to be mentioned.

[00:26:11] But they, you know, but you can see that the four through ten spots are changing because the schools are doing better to try to get, especially when enrollment. You know, how, who was that that was boasting? Who did we talk? Oh, that was Tuskegee we were talking about. They had all the incoming freshmen that we talked about a couple weeks back. You know, so, I mean, HBCUs have really, over the last, how many years do you think it's been?

[00:26:40] Maybe 10, 15 years? Have really grown as far as the enrollment is concerned because a lot of people have started to go there. Now, I remember the first real bump happened when, believe it or not, Different World was on because they got people interested in the HBCU life, you know. Because, see, when I was in school, I mean, don't get me wrong, HBCUs were nice places to go.

[00:27:06] But everybody wanted to get into PWI, especially if you play sports or anything like that, because that was the prestige. That was the chance to get to maybe go to the next level. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, so everybody was trying to go to one of those schools. But now you can get to the next level at one of these schools.

[00:27:31] I was watching Alabama A&M and Howard was on on Saturday night. I was watching some of that football game. And the announcers were talking about, yeah, you're going to see this guy probably on Sundays. You're going to see this guy on Sundays. You never would, you know, you would never hardly hear that back before, you know. Howard had like 13 players on their team from Chester, Pennsylvania. Did they? Really?

[00:28:01] Yeah. Yeah, they talked about it. Yep. They had a bunch of, I think the quarterback was from Alabama. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Well, you know, Dave, I feel like the other boom has been social media. Because, you know, social media is just kind of blown up, blown up culture. And then, you know, a lot of people can really relate to it. Social media. Yeah.

[00:28:29] Because when you turn on, when you turn on social media now, you know, you see a lot of the Greek, the divine nine stuff, you know. It's the pageant and so forth. Yeah. Yeah. The sports culture, you know. So it's really, it's really great, you know, because it gives these students a chance to relate to who they are. But you know what's also funny though, Leonard? What's that? How many white students are going to these schools now? You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. You know?

[00:28:57] And it seems like it's the whites that seem to have, they specialize in something. You know? Yeah. Like, you know, how many times have you turned on a black football game or gone to a black college football game and the start quarterback's white? Yeah. You know? Have you seen that? Yeah. Or the band, you look at the band and certain people that play certain instruments are white, you know? You know?

[00:29:26] So, you know, but they want to, you know, I have a coworker whose brother graduated from North Carolina A&T. I said, well, what made him go to North Carolina A&T? I said, there's so many other schools he could have went to. And he said, because he wanted to play in the band. He loved their band. Oh, wow.

[00:29:48] And he said, he said, he said, the school, you know, the other schools that were recruiting him, because he was getting scholarships to play at some of the PWI schools. Wow. But he said they were playing all boring music and he wanted to get out there and have a good time. And so that's why he got to North Carolina A&T. So my, um, he just retired or director at my job. He's a Delaware State, he's a Delaware State grad. You know? You're telling that story. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:18] So, and he, you know, he's, he ain't no, you know, he's the nerdiest guy that, you know, I was like, when he told me about the Dell State, he came in with this Dell State jacket on. I said, you wasn't kidding, were you? He said, no, I told you I'm graduating from Dell State, you know? So, you know, so, but anyway, you know, so it's good that we had the boom that we have. And I'm sure that every, and I'm sure all the kids go on to check the list too, to see where their school ranks, you know?

[00:30:47] So I'm sure a lot of these schools have benefited from that. You know, that's why they had their enrollments that they had, you know? So, so, you know, and anyway, but that's, that's good to know that we got these schools, you know, doing so much. And the fact that ESPN, ESPN, every Saturday plays, you know, does that game of the week. They, and they showed the halftime show too, you know? You never noticed that? I turn it on.

[00:31:16] I turn it on. I turn it on every week to catch the halftime show. So, yeah. So, but it's pretty cool that they do that. Yeah. Okay. All right. Moving on to our next story. Go ahead, sir. So Dave, you know, I thought this was interesting to see. I feel like we've heard about it forever. But so the story is ex-gang leader found guilty of murder in the Tupac Shakur 1996 drive-by killing.

[00:31:46] So Dave, of course, you know, this is 30 years ago. But so apparently Dwayne Keefy D Davis, 63 years old, was accused of not pulling the trigger, but orchestrating the death of Tupac. And he now faces a life sentence starting in October. So, you know, I thought it was pretty interesting, Dave. I see my laptop giving the, it's about to die signal.

[00:32:17] But I know, you know. Dave, what's that song? If it ain't one thing, it's another. Yeah, yeah. But I thought it was interesting because, you know, I almost feel like the death of Biggie and the death of Tupac were almost like those, you know, in the black community, those things that would never get solved, you know, always pending, people always talking, speculating.

[00:32:47] And to be honest, maybe people are still speculating. But as of right now, at least legally, this Keefy D is the one who has officially been confirmed as a person who orchestrated the killing of Tupac Shakur. Yeah. And so, yeah. So for the article, I, and feel free to chime in whenever, but I'm just going to read a couple points that it says.

[00:33:14] So it says, due to Nevada law, someone who helps another person commit murder can be convicted of the crime. Now it says, Davis is the only person currently alive who rode in the same car as the shooter 30 years ago. Let me see what else it says here. So in attendance at the trial where he was found guilty was Tupac's sister.

[00:33:44] And, you know, it's funny because, and I'm not a super, you know, Tupac factual person, but I didn't know he had a sister. Yeah. But yeah. So it says his sister was in the courtroom as well as Davis's son was in the courtroom. Let me see what else is. So of course, you know, we know Tupac was one of the most influential rappers of the time.

[00:34:11] And it says that the reason why Keefe D targeted Tupac was because Tupac and some of his people had beat up Keefe D's nephew. I guess, you know, sometime in the past. No, that happened. That happened that same night in the casino. Oh, okay. So what was that? The nephew that they beat up there. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That was after the fight.

[00:34:35] Remember, there was a big fight there and they got into it in the casino and that was his nephew that he got into it with. So that's why he had beef with him. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And Dave, you know, I thought this was interesting. They said that the prosecutors used part of, they gathered evidence from the book that Keefe D wrote. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:35:04] To incriminate him on the crime. Yeah. But that's what brought all of this back up again. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they said. That's why a lot of these rappers are getting charged for a lot of the stuff that they talk that they're going to jail for and getting in trouble for is because they write about it in their music. Right. And think that people, you know, they try to use a little code and everything. Everybody needs to code in it. You know, so they were able to pick up what he was saying.

[00:35:32] Now, you notice he never, he never named the shooter. Right. He refused to name the shooter. He said, I'm not going to say Duke pulled the trigger. Yeah. You know, so even though that person supposedly is dead, you know, because he's saying it wasn't him, you know, he said he didn't pull the trigger, you know, so, but obviously he knew who did and he said he wasn't going to talk about it.

[00:35:58] You know, in all these years, you know, they try to put it on, you know, they said it was Biggie's camp, you know, or coming from Biggie's camp that that happened. But of course, that wasn't the case at all. And they always said that, they said that the, what was it, it was one particular cop that they was doing a lot of investigating of this whole thing. Mm-hmm.

[00:36:25] And because I think the cop was the one that ended up putting this guy in jail. Oh, wow. Yeah. So when he started piecing stuff together. So, but, you know, 30 years to solve a crime though, man, that's crazy. Yeah, it is. But then it also says to us, would it have taken that long if it was, well, I don't know. Because they still don't know who shot, really shot RFK. I mean, John FK. Yeah.

[00:36:54] I mean, they think they know who it was, but, but, you know, there's been a lot of, they've been saying, well, you know, for, for him to be able to do it, this had to happen and this had to happen. But, you know, so same thing, you know, but, you know, I don't know. It's, you know, 30 years of this, and this guy's 63 years old now. So, it's crazy. It really is.

[00:37:22] But, well, at least, at least they have somebody to point the finger at, but. Right. They don't actually have the actual killer, apparently, though. Yeah. And, and it's quite possible that killer may already be dead anyway. Yeah. More likely. More likely. But then, you know, I guess we'll never know because this guy clearly said he ain't telling. Right. You know, so.

[00:37:49] Well, you know, when we have the, when we have those type of things that happen, because, you know, when you look at his death and you look at Biggie's death, it's just, who's, you know, these guys were at the top of their game at that time. And for both of them to be taken out the way that they were. Mm-hmm. It was really crazy. Really, really. So, but maybe we'll have a little bit of closure on that unless there's some other stuff that comes out about that.

[00:38:18] I know Suge Knight is sitting there laughing up a story because he always, he, you know, Suge Knight always has a lot to say about those type of things all the time. And Suge Knight pointed his finger at this guy, too. Oh, really? Yeah. Mm-hmm.

[00:38:46] I was sitting there watching TV the other day and they, there was a debate going on with this young lady. She probably was in her 40s. And a guy, I can't even forget, I forgot his name, but he's like probably somewhere in probably late 50s, early 60s. And they were talking about the greatest black movies of all time. And so he had her name, her top 10, and he named this top 10. And then, of course, they had a few similar movies.

[00:39:14] But you could tell, you can tell it was an age thing, you know, you know, about who they thought was the top 10 movies of all time. But, um, do you think you can name five top 10 black movies of all time? Mr. Culture check. Well, I mean, but who, who, who are we basing on? Like, is it, do you have a list of who you feel? I have a list.

[00:39:39] I have a list of what this, this particular thing says the top 10 black movies of all time. I mean, but who curated the list? This was, who did this list? I forgot. I have to go back to the article. Let's see. And I didn't, I didn't, I didn't put that down who did the list, but it was a list compiled by, based on how well the movies did at the box office, um, star appeal, you know, and

[00:40:08] this list is compiled by, by, by box office success, comedy, drama, that type of thing. So there's a little bit of everything on this list. Mm-hmm. So give me your, five of your favorite black movies and I'll tell you if they're on this list. So my favorite or ones I think are, okay. All right. I'll just give you five. Black Panther. Okay. That's on here.

[00:40:36] I would say Sinner, but that's probably too new to be on there. Uh, no, it's not on here. Okay. Favorite black movies. Maybe coming to America. That's on here. Yeah. It's so hard. Cause I'm, I'm going from like the 2010s to the two thousands to the nineties. Yeah. But, um, you, you're, you thinking in the right vein, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:41:05] I think there's one that I don't think you'll get. It's a good movie though, but I don't think you'll get that one. What about. That's probably the most recent one. Which one? Black Panther? No, no. Black Panther is the most recent one I think on this list. So that's kind of a hint. Yeah. What about, uh, glory? No, not on here. No. That's surprising. Yeah. Well, I mean, probably not if it's only 10. Yeah. What about Friday? No. No. Okay. All right. All right.

[00:41:36] Oh, what's that? Color Purple? Yeah, definitely. Got Color Purple on there. Is that five I named or four? Your name. Color Purple and your name Black Panther and Coming to America. There's a couple of obvious ones, but you're probably not thinking about them because they're a little older. Uh, what, what, what, what year? Like what decade? Nineties. Nineties? Harlem Knights?

[00:42:04] No, you know, Harlem Knights didn't do that well in the basketball. It's kind of a folk classic, you know? Gotcha. Okay. Nineties. Shoot. I wasn't even alive in the nineties. I got it. Oh yeah. Okay. Jesus. You gotta kick yourself when you hear some of these movies. I'm sure I am. House Party? I don't know. No, but you know, it's funny.

[00:42:32] I could see that being on, on a list though. House Party was a fun party when they first, I mean movie when it first came out. All right. Let's go through, let's go through a couple you didn't name. Okay. Now one, I'm going to tell you one that's really surprising, but it was a great movie though. And I think I could see why they put it on this list. Did you ever see Menace to Society? Yeah, but you know, like I, I never liked that movie. I don't know. Like I just.

[00:43:01] Yeah, but it was, it was, it was, it got a lot of acclaim though. I mean, you know, it was kind of hard to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Boys in the Hood is on the list that you brought it up, but it is on the list. Okay. So that was on. So you got two of those. There's Menace to Society and Boys in the Hood there. There's a movie on here that you talk about. You've mentioned a few times on our show and you didn't even talk about it. 12 Years a Slave. Oh yeah. No, I never would have guessed.

[00:43:29] I, I, I thought you guys said I'm going to get you sucker. I was like, damn, I should have said that. No, no, but one of my favorite movies. You know, that movie still makes me laugh every time I watch it. So how about Love and Basketball? Okay. Um, I, I, I definitely would not have thought of that movie. Okay. Was that one? Did you like that movie? Yeah. Tear jerker. A little tear jerker. Good movie. Good movie. God coming to America. Okay. So you're going to kick yourself when I say this one.

[00:43:59] Malcolm X. You know, I, I know Dave literally that was on the hip of my tongue, but yeah. I did not say it. Malcolm X. Might be the best movie on this list. Well, next to coming to America. Cause coming to America was like in a lane all by itself, you know? So, oh, and Black Panther, you know, Black Panther also. So the other one, the one I said that you probably would not get Moonlight with. Yeah. Did you ever watch that? Yeah, I did. I think I did.

[00:44:28] That was a good movie. It was a very good movie. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, people forget about that movie, you know? So, but so, so we got Malcolm X, Boys in the Hood, Color Purple, Moonlight, Black Panther, Love and Basketball, Coming to America, Menace to Society, and 12 Years a Sleep. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So, so this was based on a combination of things. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[00:44:58] Cause there's a. What? So, and, and so if you were to add to this list, I guess you would put, I'm going to get to soccer. Yeah. Of course. Classic. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else that you can think of? Well, Glory. I guess you could have put Glory on here too, right? I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else immediately comes to mind? Oh, I left off one. I just thought about that. Uh-oh. Which one? Do the Right Thing was on here. Oh, I. I didn't say that one.

[00:45:28] Never would have guessed that one. Were you, you wasn't a fan? Do the Right Thing. Is that the, um. Spike Lee joint. Yeah. I'm just trying to think of what. Damn. What happened in Do the Right Thing? I forget. That was another, that was another, that was another movie that, that, that kind of spurred the. The Neighborhood one? Huh? Was that the Neighborhood one? Radio Rock Kim? No, no, no. This is. Oh, yeah. Do the Right Thing. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. With Radio Raheem. Radio Raheem. Yeah. Yeah. And, um. You know, they had all the.

[00:45:58] Guys, all those actors were young in that movie. Come to think of it. You know? Yeah. Um. But yeah. Definitely Do the Right Thing was a great movie. But I was thinking about a couple other movies. Juice, I thought, was a good movie. Remember Juice? With Tupac. With Tupac Chagor. Yeah. Boomerang. Boomerang. I don't like that one either. Boomerang. Boomerang. Okay. Yeah.

[00:46:26] Just the fact that they had all those people in one movie. You know? Or, or they, I mean, if we think about another movie that could have been one of the greatest Nutty Professor. I mean, that. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Pretty popular. Did well in the box office. That was definitely, considering that he took from Jerry Lewis, who had already had that movie out and turned it into what he turned it into. That was a great movie. Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's been some, you know, we've had some good movies and we're not even getting

[00:46:54] into some of the, well, some of the older movies like Carmen, you know, with Sidney Poitier and, and, and, and of course, well, I cannot think of her name. Star Carmen. That's what happens when you get old. You forget people's names. I'm sorry. And I should not be forgetting her name. Stormy Weather, Carmen. Gosh. Oh, that is so crazy.

[00:47:23] I cannot think of her name. Look it up, Leonard. You know, you got me out here hanging, hanging out there. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Let me, hold on, hold on. I'm, I'm going to let you suffer a little more. Keep on guessing. Wow. This is so crazy. I cannot think of her name. Damn. And of course, when I type in Carmen, it came up with the, the Mexican Carmen movie. The, the, the stormy, the stormy weather. Stormy Weather? Yeah. Is that a movie?

[00:47:53] Yeah, it's a movie. Wow. Oh, you talking about our girl Lena Horne? Oh my God. I could not think of her name. Oh my God. That's scary. Having a moment, man. Having a moment. I know everybody going to be slamming me on that. You could think of Lena Horne? Okay. Wow. They, they Black Carve Revolt. I know. I know. I know. I know. Culture checked. I know. I got to check. I got to see. She probably not even in the culture check, man. We got, we got to figure out. No, she in it. Okay. She in it. Okay. All right.

[00:48:23] All right. Okay. All right. But anyway, that's the top 10 Black movies that they said of all time. I'm sure you guys have your own list and I'm sure we missed some things that you guys probably would put on that list, you know? So, so definitely let us know what your thoughts are as far as that's concerned. All right. That brings us to Dave's Corner, Leonard's favorite part of the show. I figured out I've been kind of busting his chops over the last few weeks.

[00:48:52] So I'm going to give him something real easy. I know. You know, all right. All right, Dave. Don't be busting my chops. So, so I'll give you something easy this summer. And is it me or, or am I always thinking this? Didn't this summer seem like it was like a lot going on everywhere. Like it was like things after, you know, festivals at the festivals and events after events, you

[00:49:21] know, a lot of stuff was going on on the same day. I was just sitting here thinking to myself, so, you know, you know, over the last three or four months, what do you think have been some of the biggest events that you either attended or know of that happened this summer? Are we talking about in Delaware or just here? Yeah, in Delaware. Just, you know, Delaware. Okay. Well, I don't know because I know you've been to a couple of events outside of Delaware that were pretty big.

[00:49:50] So, you know, you know, the concerts that you went to. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I almost died. You forget about that. So, but, uh, but in Delaware, what do you, what do you think? So, definitely, I feel like the biggest event I went to, the Reggae Festival, I was, I was not prepared for that to be as big as it was.

[00:50:18] I was talking to somebody about that festival yesterday. So, yeah, yeah, definitely. So, I mean, that right there is the, definitely the biggest. They had over 40,000 people to show up to that thing or something, they said? Yeah, I mean, that, I mean, I wasn't out there counting, but it was packed. It was packed. Okay. It was packed for sure. Mm-hmm. Um, so, the Reggae Fest, so, I mean, I'm just going to mention when I went to that Jay-Z concert, I was like, oh my goodness. Yeah.

[00:50:47] Dave, that was a, Dave, I've not been around so many black people in such a tight, tight area for, for, for a long time. Yeah, did you guys stand or were you sitting? Well, I mean, we stood in line for five hours. Yeah. We eventually got to sit for one hour. One hour. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yep. So, what else? Anything else?

[00:51:17] So, I mean, those are the only ones that I went to where it's like, man, there's a lot of people out here. Of course, you know, I got to throw in the Black Music Festival because that's always, it's always a good time. I was going to say, don't you not mention that. Always a good time of blackness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely a good time. Yeah. Then, I mean, other than that, I mean, I went to events that had a good turnout, but,

[00:51:45] you know, those are the ones that were like, whew, a lot of Negroes out here. Yeah. I was just saying that Jill Scott had to cancel a couple of her concerts because she has COVID now. Mm-hmm. And she was talking about that, she says she's been doing too many, she said I've been around too many folks. You know, that's what she said, you know, that she fooled around and got COVID and had to cancel some of her events. I mean, some of her concerts, you know, so. Yeah.

[00:52:14] Now, what about yourself? Have you been to any events this summer that were jam-packed? Well, I mean, of course, you know, we got to start with the Black Music Festival that kind of started the summer. So, that was somewhere else too. I'm trying to remember where I was. Now, I didn't go to the reggae, but of course, I heard about how big that was. And then, of course, we just had August Corley this weekend and they said that was a big crowd as well.

[00:52:46] What am I thinking about? It seemed like I'm missing something. What was I talking about? I know I didn't get to half as many of the events as I would have liked to go on to, but it just seemed like, for some reason, this summer just seemed like it was action-packed to me. Yeah. No. I mean, you know, we had, it was busy.

[00:53:09] I mean, of course, you know, I went to Naboo's, you know, thing, you know, well, we had him on the show and he talked about it and all that stuff, you know, talking, you know. And then they had other events as well. You know, of course, you know, Anne did her Whitney thing and Anne Latrice did her thing. And so, you know, it's been a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff. So, I just thought it was a big summer.

[00:53:37] I think it was excellent for people who said that there's never anything to do in Delaware. Well, there was a lot to do in Delaware. No, there was. Yeah. And, you know, and right outside of Delaware, too, there was stuff to do. So, you know. So, I just wanted to make mention, I thought this was probably, I mean, I thought this was probably one of the busiest summers, I think, that we've had here in this area in a long time.

[00:54:06] So, if not the busiest. So, every time I turned around, there was something going on every weekend, it seemed like, in some park or someplace. The parks, the parks had been, a lot of the parks had been booked forever, you know, because they had stuff in every park, just about. Yeah. You know, Dave, I felt like this was a summer of the Delaware Festival because it's like, I mean, I don't know where it came from. I'm going to credit Sam Bailey for the resurgence.

[00:54:33] But it's like, everybody's doing a festival now, an outdoor festival. Yeah. Oh, we didn't even mention the jazz festival. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we didn't even talk about that. So, but yeah, yeah, you're right, kid. Some type of, there's always some type of festival going on. And I guess that's, I guess that's the new thing now because keep in mind, you know, a lot of the venues that we used to have, we, you know, we don't have anymore. So people are looking for things to do, you know. So it's been interesting.

[00:55:03] It really has. Yeah. So you guys give us your thoughts on what you thought was some of the big things to do this summer and whether you got a chance to go out to a lot of the events or not. You know, I know Tim, Tim had a busy summer and Tim was everywhere this summer. Oh, yeah. I'm sure he was everywhere, you know. So, so, and congratulations on another successful summer with the Play Streets and, and remember,

[00:55:31] you know, in the memory of Rashima Dixon, you know, and it's good that her father and Tim and everybody involved, the city is keeping that going. So that's great. And they actually went to a few new parks this year that they, yeah, you know, so, so, and people, and it turned out it's been well. So, so that's good. That's good looking on that as well. So, all right. Well, I guess that's everything.

[00:56:01] Anything you want to add? You want to talk about call to check? Yep. So Dave, of course, you know, last week we had our, I guess our official launch for the Apple app store. You got any numbers or anything for us? I mean, no, no, I mean, yes and no. Well, yeah, I'll put it like this. So for our main category, our main keyword. So of course our main keyword is black trivia.

[00:56:25] We are, we've, we've moved up to either number and it fluctuated a little bit between number three and number five on the app store under the key tag, black trivia, which, you know, which is good. So I'm not mad about that. Okay. So I'm, I'm encouraging all of our people. If you get a chance, please go to, go to the app store, look for culture check. It's all one word.

[00:56:53] Download it, play a game or two, then go back to the app store. Give us a five-star rating, write a nice positive review. And I'm with Dave. And I've talked about a little bit last time. I'm going to reiterate, let's knock Dave off of number one. Black sports legend. I'm great. Look, I'm great. Go back on there and be number one on another category. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Go, go, go. Yeah.

[00:57:21] So, you know, I'm going to tell everybody, come get me. Come get me y'all. Come get me. Knock me up, take me off the number one spot. There you go. And, and, and Dave, we also don't want to leave out the people who do not have an iPhone. So the people who don't have an iPhone, Android users, because we're, we're, we're working on the Android one app, but they can go to our website, culturecheckapp.com.

[00:57:45] And at the top of the page, there is a button where the Android users can play live, no down on their phone, phone only, and no download required. Now they can't make any purchases. So, you know, we have some purchase packs and special items. They can't make any purchases, but they can still play, you know, a majority of stuff via the app. So, you know. And you put a button on there for them to get an iPhone.

[00:58:12] Oh, do you see, Dave, you, you, you, you, you kind of start troubling these Androiders. I always, I always bust with Android users all the time. So, but anyway, I mean, do what you have to, you know, to be able to play. Either or, but whether you, your Apple or Android, less dethrone Dave before I have to get on and I go in the back end and I just lower. I know, I know. I go back and lower the school.

[00:58:41] That's probably what he's going to do, by the way. If I drop, if I drop dramatically, all of a sudden, that's what he did, people. Okay. So, all right. But, well, you know, let's support our brother, Mr. Leonard Young and with his new, with his new adventure. And, and, and I think, I think you guys will really have a good time. It's a lot of fun. So, call to check, check it out. Okay. All right. Well, that's our show for tonight, folks.

[00:59:09] We really appreciate your time and thank you for listening and always hanging with us. And we will be back next week to talk to you again. Have a good night. Tune in next week, ladies and gentlemen, for another edition of Newz and Trendz with your host, Dave and Len.