HBCU Sports, NBA

  The NBA championship trophy was center stage, bathed in white light and sitting on a pedestal. And each Miami Heat player offered it a different greeting. (Photo: AP)   The NBA championship trophy was center stage, bathed in white light and sitting on a pedestal. And each Miami Heat player offered it a different […]

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Dwyane Wade’s father is in financial trouble with the government for not paying back a loan to attend trade school. According to TMZ, Dwyane Wade Sr. is being sued by the U.S. government for defaulting on a $4,630.46 loan intended for higher education. According to the documents, Wade Sr. borrowed the cash to attend the […]

Gossip

Willow Smith is 11-years-old. She struck fame with her debut single “Whip My Hair,” then surprised fans when she chopped those same colorful tendrils off.  Her actions were written off as a young teen trying to express herself, only Willow isn’t even really a pre-teen yet. Go to Hellobeautiful to read more.  

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There seems to be no love between Rodney King’s family and his fiancee, Cynthia Kelley.  According to TMZ, King’s family has made no effort to reach out to Cynthia since King’s death last weekend. Go to The Urban Daily to read more.  

National News

Jonathan Woodlief needed a kidney. Finding a match was proving to be quite dismal, until he met his wife, Caitlyn at seminary school in Dallas. He was suffering from lupus and received his first kidney transplant from his mother at the age of 18. In a rare occurrence, the disease returned in the donated kidney […]

Little Known Black History Facts

Black Music Magazine is the first major magazine of the UK showcasing Reggae music artists. The first issue was established in December 1973 and featured Stevie Wonder on the cover. Taking a deeper approach to the Reggae genre, Black Music Magazine was a combination of its predecessors, Blues and Soul and Black Echoes, which mostly […]

National News

A new survey finds that 27-percent of moms give their whining or crying child a cell phone rather than a toy as a distraction. The research conducted by Asda, a U.K. supermarket chain says that the findings compare with 25-percent of moms who prefer to use bottles, 21-percent who give soft toys, and 9 percent […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sniff your way to love? Singles who have attended so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out. The get-togethers — which have been held in New York and Los Angeles and are planned for other cities — ask guests to submit a slept-in T-shirt that will be smelled by other participants. Then, […]

National News

GOODWELL, Okla. (AP) — Three Union Pacific Railroad crewmembers were missing after two freight trains collided Sunday in the Oklahoma Panhandle, authorities said. An eastbound train carrying vehicles and a westbound train crashed about 10:08 a.m. Sunday near Goodwell, Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza said. A two-person crew was aboard each train, and officials were […]

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican Gov. Terry Branstad has made Iowa one of the most difficult states in the nation for felons to vote, with an executive order he issued last year already having disenfranchised thousands of people, a review by The Associated Press shows. On the day he took office, Branstad signed an […]

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egyptian presidential elections, announced Sunday, has raised fears in Israel that its strategic 1979 peace agreement with its southern neighbor could be in danger. In contrast, in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, ecstatic residents flocked into the streets, fired guns in the air and handed out candy in […]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two little girls in a Kansas City apartment complex had perfectly braided hair, neighbors said Sunday, and were clean, happy and, if anything, "spoiled." But the girls, ages 2 and 8, had a secret: a 10-year-old sister who weighed just 32 pounds when she was freed Friday from a locked […]