The Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, known as FFAWN, is having financial troubles and has been hit with two lawsuits. According to The NY Post, a group of musicians who performed at a fundraising gala for the charity in 2011 were never paid for their work.   […]

If ever anyone has had the deck stacked against him from the start, Steve Pemberton would be the one. Taken from his mother at three years old and placed into foster care with a Polish surname, Pemberton moved from one family to another and endured physical and psychological abuse and quickly learned he had no […]

A top sex-crimes prosecutor from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has hastily resigned her post in the midst of a growing scandal where it’s alleged she deliberately ignored mounting evidence that could have freed four black men charged with “beating, raping and pimping out” an Orthodox Jewish girl who not only later recanted all of […]

A teacher and teacher’s assistant at Varnett Charter School in Houston, thought it was a good idea to put three and four-year-old children in a closet for five minutes at a time if they acted up in class. But they not only put them in the closet, they told the students the closet contained “monsters.” […]

Philadelphia Eagles QB Michael Vick is getting married. The NFL star set the date with his longtime fiancée Kijafa Frink for June 30 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Wedding invitations went out this month for 300 people. The guest list includes Vick’s mentor and form Colt’s coach, Tony Dungy, Eagles coach Andy Reid, Vick’s NFL […]

The Los Angeles Lakers star point guard’s face mask that he wore after suffering a broken nose and concussion n the middle of the season, was auctioned off for the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation. One lucky fan bid $67,100. The opening bid was $250. There were a total of 129 bids. The mask, […]

MIAMI (AP) — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who tried to make him stop. Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami that he was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off the MacArthur Causeway into […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Kydd Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday. Black Enterprise said in a statement that Graves had been fighting gall-bladder cancer for more than three years when she died at Howard University Hospital in Washington. […]

“Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast member Phaedra Parks has filed a $30 million lawsuit against Vibe Holdings, which operates Vibe.com, Uptown Magazine, and Augustus Publishing, saying the outlet has published lies about her to generate interest in a book. The lawsuit, filed this week, demands a jury trial, $5 million in compensatory and $25 million […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the men and women who have died defending America, pointing to Vietnam veterans as an under-appreciated and sometimes maligned group of war heroes who remained true to their nation despite an unwelcome homecoming. "You were sometimes blamed for the misdeeds of a few," Obama said […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home, agreeing to cooperate with investigators — raising the specter that higher-ranking ecclesial heads may soon roll. Few believe butler Paolo Gabriele worked alone to leak dozens of […]

Commander Wesley Brown became the first black Naval Academy graduate on June 3, 1949. Brown, who served in WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, was admitted to the Naval Academy with five other black candidates in 1945. The Howard University Graduate attended Annapolis alongside President Jimmy Carter, who was his friend and colleague […]