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While Facebook has paved the way for family reunions and renewed friendships, the social networking giant has also been the backdrop for infidelity and the…
Alisha Harris of www.theslate.com wrote this amazing story on the real life Butler, Eugene Allen. His life was the bases of the the book, The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood. Alisha writes: A few days after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the Washington Post published an article about a black butler who […]
A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ.” Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the name change last week, according to WBIR-TV. The boy’s parents were in court because they could not agree on the child’s […]
Sharon Snyder, who worked for 34 years as a court clerk in Kansas City, was fired after she helped a wrongly accused inmate gain his…
According to www.NewsOne.com, Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on TV’s, restaurant dinners, an expensive watch and other costly personal items. His wife received a sentence of one year. Jackson, the 48-year-old son of civil […]
Black college alum Spike Lee has been in the news for his crowdsourcing efforts to raise funds for his next movie, but a soon-to-be HBCU…
A YouTube video entitled “Prayer for President Barack Obama” of a young elementary school-aged boy named Stephen praying for President Barack Obama has gone viral, and…
The Oxygen Network has unveiled the trailer for Preachers of L.A. and it appears to be full of sanctified rachetness. RELATED: The Sisterhood: Reality Show Starring…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is furious over a judge’s decision to appoint a federal monitor to oversee the NYPD’s Stop & Frisk program. RELATED:…
Sisters Erica and Tina Campbell have been Mary Mary for 12 years saying good bye to that partnership could be a tough transition. Erica admitted she’s a bit nervous about going off to do her own thing. “Of course there’s anxiety with us stepping out to do different things. We’ve been joined at the hip for the last 12 years, […]
The NAACP announced today that it will sue the state of North Carolina over its controversial Voter ID measure that was signed into law Monday by…
A 15-year-old boy in DeKalb County, Ga., needs a heart transplant, however doctors say he doesn’t qualify for the transplant list, WSB-TV 2 reports. Anthony…