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VIDEOS: Club License Suspended After Nude Performance by ATL Stripper Redickulous

Thanks to Chase Coxxx (nsfw) for the heads up. Authorities in Augusta, Georgia are investigating a local nightclub where nationally known male exotic dancer "Redickulous" reportedly danced nude ... with an underage teen who also removed his clothes.

Watch news reports and an interview with the male dancer AFTER THE JUMP ...

The incident happened at Augusta's Club Skittlez on April 27, reports Augusta's News 12. The super-popular Redickulous has been featured on episodes of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

[Richmond County] commissioners voted to suspend the business license for Club Skittlez after a picture surfaced showing the teen nude with a nationally known exotic dancer. Kelvin House, whose stage name is Redickulous, is from Augusta. He says he was making a club appearance and it's not the performer's job to check the ID of an 18-and-up club.

"Now I'm being told that I just showed up. Why would I come to Augusta on April 27? If anything, I would've came during Masters Week," House said. ... House sent us Facebook messages supposedly from Lowery as proof that he was paid to get nude and these fliers. The owner denies it and Augusta commissioners have a problem with it all.

An investigator says there "were anywhere from 25 to 20 underage kids in" the club at the time of the live nude performance. The club license has been suspended for at least 30 days. Redickulous reportedly has NOT been charged because the 16-year-old "gave consent" to the performance.

Watch a report including an interview with Redickulous, as well performance video AFTER THE JUMP ...

VIDEO: Ciara Talks Rihanna Feud, "Body Party" on "Wendy Williams"

Ciara stopped by Rod 2.0 earlier this week. On Wednesday, the Grammy Award-winning singer slash model appeared on Wendy Williams sporting a ferosh pair of Gianvito Rossi strapped heels and talked "Body Party"—the first single of Ciara’s upcoming fifth and self-titled studio album—Nicki Minaj, her love life and the Twitter feud with Rihanna.

"I’m totally in a different space and it’s all positivity and love from my perspective and how I get down," said Ciara. "I wish her well."

The new album is due July 9.  Watch the interview AFTER THE JUMP ...

LISTEN: Ciara Talks "Body Party" and New Music with Rod 2.0

The new music video for "Body Party"—the first single of Ciara’s upcoming fifth and self-titled studio album—is gorgeous, luxe and ridiculously sexy. The singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and Givenchy couture model is clearly in her element at a fab house party as she meets a handsome man and performs a private dance. The man is her real-life boyfriend, the Atlanta based-rapper Future. They both co-wrote the single, which is a feel-good, 90-inspired dance track.

Ludacris makes a cameo along with Stevie J and Joseline Hernandez of VH1's hit reality series Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta.

Watch the video AFTER THE JUMP ...

"I just wanted to have fun in the video," Ciara told Rod 2.0. "I wanted to go back to when guys weren’t too cool to slow dance and everyone had the best time at a great house party. Not the largest house party but just fun. And I had to shoot it in Atlanta."

The release of the "Body Party"music video coincided with Billboard's new tracking formula and has helped the track catapult into the top of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. "The clip, which premiered on the first day of the chart's streaming tracking week (April 22), garnered 3.8 million U.S. views in its first seven days," reports Billboard. There are now more than 6.3 million views exactly two weeks after the music video's release.

Listen to the interview:

Hopefully the new sound and the buzz around the new single—and a "soon to be released" second single, she promises—are a winning strategy. The Atlanta-born singer released her debut studio album Goodies in 2004. The album produced three huge singles "Goodies", "1, 2 Step" and "Oh". The second studio album Ciara: The Evolution shot to Number One and produced several more hits, including "Get Up" and "Like a Boy". In less than ten years, Ciara has landed 10 top ten singles on Billboard’s Hot 100, sold more than 7 million albums, won a Grammy, three BET Awards and three MTV Awards. Not bad for 28-years-old

"Ciara" will be her fifth studio album—track listing and pre-orders at iTunes—and is scheduled for a July 9 release. "I started working on this record more than a year ago," said Ciara. "Since then, I have found my creative clarity on the direction I wanted to go."

Federal Hate Crime Guilty Pleas in Videotaped ATL Anti-Gay Assault

PHOTO: Project Q Atlanta

Two of the three men convicted of brutally attacking a young gay Atlanta man and videotaping the assault have pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges, reports The GA Voice.

This case is the first in Georgia to charge a violation of the sexual orientation section of the federal hate crimes law. Christopher Cain (above) and Dorian Moragne, both of Atlanta, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester.

"Violence against another person because of his or her sexual orientation has no place in our civilized society," said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates in a prepared statement. "The citizens of this district should know that we are committed to aggressively prosecuting hate crimes."

No word yet on the sentencing date.

The videotaped February 4 2012 attack against Brandon White went viral across the internet. Cain has been described as one of the "main aggressors" in the videotaped attack.  The vicious beating of White began after Cain claimed White made a sexual advance toward him, according to court documents. White has denied the claim. Cain can be seen on the video "stomp[ing] Brandon White after he was punched and kicked" to the ground.

Other defendants were seen stomping and kicking Brandon White. Moragne was identified as the person who threw a tire on the victim.

Federal authorities joined the manhunt and prosecution. Cain, Moragne and Darael Williams were sentenced last July to five years in prison on aggravated assault, street gang activity and robbery convictions. Another defendant, 24-year-old Javaris Bradford, was indicted by a grand jury and apparently remains at large.

Georgia is one of only five states without a hate crimes law. The Justice Department announced that they would file federal hate crime charges once the state concluded its case.

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PHOTO: The Burgess-Allens

This is brilliant. EBONY has profiled Bishop Oliver Clyde Allen III (R) and Rashad Burgess as part of its series "The Coolest Black Family in America."

Bishop Allen leads The Vision Church of Atlanta, the well-known progressive and inclusive Pentecostal congregation. Burgess—an R20 friend—is Chief of the Capacity Building Branch for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The couple has been together since 2002, were married in 2009 and recently welcomed a new addition: Caylee LaTanya Burgess-Allen.

"I don’t think there’s any greater thing that a human being can do than pour into another human being and raise a child," said Bishop Allen. It fulfills your life."

The article is beautiful and the slide set is gorgeous. More HERE.

Low Enrollment Forces Eddie Long to Close Christian Academy

More problems for the scandal-plagued "Bishop" Eddie Long and the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Citing low enrollment and a poor "economy", the church has announced plans to close its Christian Academy at the end of the school year, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV.

Enrollment reportedly has dropped by almost 80 percent at the Faith Community Christian Academy K-12. The academy is located on the New Birth campus in Lithonia,

The academy closed in January 2012 due to economic troubles, but reopened shortly [later]. According to New Birth's website, the school opened in 1993 as New Birth Christian Academy, and at one time boasted an enrollment of more than 200 students. But a church spokesperson said the current enrollment is at about 40, not nearly enough to be able to keep the school economically viable. He said this is a growing trend among private Christian academies as more and more of them are hit with economic hardships.

The school closure is just the latest bad news for the megachurch that once boasted up to 25,000 members. Twelve former church members announced in January that they were suing Long and New Birth for "encouraging" them to invest millions in a Ponzi scheme.

The anti-gay televangelist was accused of luring at least five young men into sexual relationships in late 2010. Long was accused of using church funds to give the young men cash, gifts and cars. The sexual relationships reportedly began when each of the plaintiffs were around 16 years old. Long reached an out-of-court settlement with the young men  in May 2011. Read the complaints HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Long's wife Vanessa publicly announced her plans to divorce in December 2011. The case was withdrawn in February 2012. Mrs. Long received a standing ovation from church members in September 2012 when she discussed why she remained in the marriage.

New Birth MBC maintains the school's financial problems are "not" related "to the controversy surrounding church founder Bishop Eddie Long and allegations of sexual abuse."

Keep telling yourself that, hon.

Federal Lawsuit Filed in Fatal Park Shooting of DeFarra Gaymon

There are new developments in the case of an unarmed Atlanta banking executive who was fatally shot by an Essex County Sheriff's Police officer in a Newark, New Jersey park  on July 16 2010. The family of DeFarra Gaymon has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, reports Gay City News' Duncan Osborne.

The lawsuit claims excessive force and says Gaymon was "under control ... unarmed and helpless" before he was shot and killed during the public sex sting in the park.

"Officer Esposito chased decedent Gaymon to a pond located within the park," wrote Christopher W. Kinum, the attorney for the Gaymon family, in an amended complaint filed in federal court on February 15. "Decedent Gaymon got down on his knees. At this point, decedent Gaymon had no avenue of escape due to the pond being in front of him… Officer Esposito approached decedent Gaymon from behind. Defendant Officer Esposito kicked decedent Gaymon several times."

The complaint asserts that Edward Esposito, a sheriff’s deputy in the Essex County Sheriff’s Office, then drew his gun and fired a single shot into the 48-year-old Gaymon’s stomach, killing him.

"At the time he was shot, Defarra was unarmed and helpless, and in no way posed a threat to Defendant Officer Esposito’s safety or to the safety of any other persons," wrote Kinum, who wrote in a separate brief that he was relying on "Officer Esposito’s written statement made three days after the shooting."

On July 16 2010, the Montclair, NJ native had driven to New Jersey from his suburban Atlanta home to attend his high school’s 30th reunion. Esposito claims Gaymon was masturbating in the park when he approached the detective. Officials said there was a chase and the officer fired one shot after the unarmed man "reached in his pocket and lunged" at the officer. There were no witnesses.

DeFarra Gaymon was married with four children. Gaymon's family has disputed the official version of events but has not commented on the sexual angle of the case. Family, friends and co-workers say the descriptions of Gaymon's alleged violent behavior are "uncharacteristic" and possibly even fabricated.

Esposito—the police officer who killed the unarmed man—may "have been involved in at least three 2009 public sex arrests that also turned violent," reported Gay City News in January 2011. Up to 16 arrests possibly made by Esposito follow a disturbingly similar pattern. An Essex County grand jury chose not to file charges against the officer in June 2011.

The Essex County Sheriff has suspended the five-year park sting operation at Newark's Branch Brook Park.

Read R20"s complete covereage HERE.

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ATLANTA: Police Arrest Suspect in Shooting at Morehouse College

SCREENCAP: CBS ATLANTA

Atlanta detectives have arrested one suspect and are looking for a second in connection with the shooting of a Morehouse College student over the weekend. The Friday shooting apparently began as "a fight over a pickup basketball game" at Morehouse's Samuel Archer Hall, reports WSB and CBS Atlanta.

Twenty-two-year-old Clark Atlanta University student Amir Obafemi was arrested Saturday. Obafemi has been charged with felony aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon.

[Morehouse Police Chief Vernon Worthy]said the shooting stemmed from an argument outside after a pick-up basketball game at the gym. He said the shooter brandished a weapon, and the victim made it just inside the building before he was shot in the forearm. The victim, later identified as Cornileus Savage, was taken to Grady Hospital, and is conscious and alert, according to Atlanta police.

There was another violent crime on the Morehouse campus over the weekend, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Around 130pm Saturday, the Atlanta Police Department said a Morehouse student’s iPhone was snatched from his hand and when he chased the robber several of the suspect’s “associates” attacked the student. "They roughed him up and then fled the scene," APD spokesman Gregory Lyon said. He said the student suffered cuts and bruises and was transported to the hospital.

The Morehouse shooting was the second high-profile shooting in Atlanta last week. "A 14-year-old was wounded on Thursday in a shooting outside a middle school and police said another student was arrested," reports Reuters.

The 143-year-old all-male Morehouse College is one of the nation's most prestigious historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). The college boasts famous alumni and "Morehouse men" such as civil rights icons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Julian Bond, filmmaker Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson.

Dr. John Silvanus Wilson is the new president of Morehouse. In January he spoke to National Public Radio about the challenges facing the historic college. Listen HERE.

VIDEO: Frenchie Davis Performs "I Am Changing", "Love's Got a Hold"

The 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change wrapped in Atlanta on Saturday. The four day conference sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force convened the nation's premier and emerging LGBT leaders in activism, politics, policy, strategy, media, labor and technology.

The closing plenary featured the fabulous Frenchie Davis who performed "Love's Got a Hold On Me." Watch AFTER THE JUMP ...

This was a busy day for the American Idol alum. After closing Creating Change, Ms. Davis was the featured performer at the second annual Gentleman's Ball. The event benefited AID Atlanta's Evolution Project, was hosted by Eva Marcille and produced by G Spot Productions. Very nice.

Ms. Davis delivered a fiyah rendition of "I Am Changing." Watch AFTER THE JUMP...

HOT: Atlanta's Rudebwoy Bulges and Bounces in His Tighties

For your Monday morning wake-up: Atlanta-based stripper hotness Rudebwoy bulges, bounces and twerks in CK tighties.

You're welcome! Via Luckey Star (very nsfw), your virtual lapdance AFTER THE JUMP ...