Dr. Myiesha Taylor says there are several things you can do to improve your experience in the emergency room.

Have a question for the doctor? Text it to “646464” (OHOHOH). When you have a medical emergency you may sometimes feel your problem is exacerbated by the long waits in the emergency room. Unless you have a life-threatening wound or allergic reaction, an ER visit can take hours and the chaos around you can make […]

This wasn’t the turn history was supposed to take for Jennifer Carroll. Carroll, as many already know, became Florida’s first African American lieutenant governor in 2010. Had some misfortune befell Gov. Rick Scott, she could have wound up being the first black and first woman governor of the nation’s fourth most populous state. And even […]

Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was a student from Chickasha, Oklahoma who was the first black student at University of Oklahoma. She was denied entry in 1946 because she was black. After teaming with Thurgood Marshall, she won the case and began classes in 1949. Her case was among those that set the precedent for Brown […]

Ben Carson, the world-renowned African American neurosurgeon, could be the new black face of the Republican Party. Considered a rising star in the conservative movement, Carson has implied that he’s open to running for president and proved he certainly isn’t shy about criticizing President Barack Obama. Carson, 61, who grew up in Detroit, says Obama […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Cigarettes would have to be kept out of sight in New York City stores under a first-in-the-nation plan unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday, igniting complaints from retailers and smokers who said they’ve had enough with the city’s crackdowns. Shops from corner stores to supermarkets would have to keep tobacco […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical assistant told a jury Tuesday that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox abortions at a West Philadelphia clinic. And she said Dr. Kermit Gosnell and another employee did the same to terminate pregnancies. Adrienne Moton‘s testimony came in the capital murder trial of Gosnell, the […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A 6-month-old baby who was killed when a gunman fired at minivan in Chicago was on her father’s lap at the time, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Monday. The father, Jonathon Watkins, was seriously wounded when the shooter approached the vehicle and fired. McCarthy said that Jonylah Watkins was sitting in his […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Applications for gun permits have jumped in Newtown since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which sparked a renewed debate about stricter gun control laws and a surge in gun sales around the country due to worries about new limits. Newtown in recent years has issued about 130 gun permits […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The former voice of the “Sesame Street” character Elmo is being sued by a man who claims the entertainer lured him into drug-fueled sex when he was 16. Sheldon Stephens, who’s now 24, says he met Kevin Clash at a networking event. He says he was brought by limousine from Pennsylvania […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A 24-year-old nonprofit worker wept on the witness stand Tuesday as he described an unnerving episode of being handcuffed near his home while an officer took his keys and went inside his building. Nicholas Pert, who is black, is one of about a dozen New Yorkers expected to tell their stories […]

It’s official: Roland Martin is out at CNN. After a six-year run on CNN, Martin tweeted that the “new boss wants his own peeps.” The “boss” Martin referred to is CNN President Jeff Zucker who chose not to renew Martin’s contract as a CNN commentator. Martin’s contract ends April 6. “Roland I am really missing […]