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Twenty years later, Rodney King's simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House: "Can we all get along?" Spoken as fires of rage and frustration wrecked huge swaths of Los Angeles, the plea distilled centuries of racial strife into a challenge — and […]

Entertainment News

Meagan Good was a vision this weekend at her wedding to DeVon Franklin, a Hollywood producer and Seventh-day Adventist preacher, in Malibu, CA. The actress described the ceremony as “a bayou-themed kind of Spanish mosque, a very enchanted-y Twilight feel.” Go to Hellobeautiful to read more.

National News

TROY, Ohio (AP) — Protesters shouted throughout Mitt Romney's campaign appearance with House Speaker John Boehner. Romney on Sunday gave an abbreviated campaign speech from the bed of a pickup truck in Boehner's hometown of Troy. A small but noisy group of protestors shouted throughout his speech, which lated about six minutes. The protesters shouted, […]

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When John Edwards faced the prospect of an indictment that could put him behind bars, he calmly told his mistress he would probably wind up in a low-security prison in Virginia more like a country club than a jail. She quickly told him she and their daughter would move there to be near him if […]

Little Known Black History Facts

African-American Jewish musician Joshua Nelson is the first famous Kosher Gospel artist, performing his music in synagogues across the country. Raised in East Orange, NJ, Nelson grew up in a synagogue that was quick to serve fried chicken and collard greens. His grandmother exposed him to both classical music and gospel as a child. He […]

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The parents of a third-grade boy are suing a Ft. Worth school district and two employees for forcing their son to shower in front of them because he was “smelly.” Amber and Michael Tilley claim that their eight-year old son was taken to the nurse’s office at Peaster Elementary School where he was forced to […]

Health & Wellness

A new study finds that the life expectancy gap between Whites and Blacks in the U.S. has narrowed in the past two decades. Previous studies found that Whites were expected to outlive Blacks by three to five years. The new findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that the gap has […]

Music

Hip-Hop’s jack-of-all-trades, RZA of the Wu Tang Clan has signed on to teach incarcerated men how to be exemplary fathers to their children.  On Saturday, he will be hosting a Father’s Day Workshop at Los Angeles’ Juvenile Hall, according to TMZ. RZA will “educate the young men about their roles, responsibilities and expectations as fathers […]