Daily News Feed 4.10.08

50 Cent and Universal Sued for Pushing ‘Gangsta’ Life
Hip hop mogul 50 Cent, Universal Music Group and several of its record labels were sued on Wednesday for promoting a “gangsta lifestyle” by a 14-year-old boy who says friends of the rapper assaulted him. (Continue Reading…)

King’s Undelivered Sermon: ‘Why America May Go to Hell’
On the eve of his murder, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream was turning dark. Worried about poverty and Vietnam, he was growing more radical–and that, his family says, is why he was killed. Was the real King a saint, a subversive–or both? (Continue Reading…)

President’s Speech Calms Haiti Protests, for Now
Sixteen senators have asked for the resignation of Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis in the wake of several days of street violence over high food prices that appeared to be over Thursday. Some public transportation resumed and businesses reopened Thursday, and U.N. peacekeepers were taking down some of the roadblocks set up by protesters and barricades set up by security forces during the violence. (Continue Reading…)