The Olympics has come to an end and Black America has many accomplishments to be proud of. There was Gabby Douglas becoming the first African-American to ever win Olympic gold in the gymnastic individual all-around and the women’s 4x 100 relay team setting a new world record, as well as the total USA domination on  […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albert Freeman Jr., the veteran actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's epic film, "Malcolm X," has died. He was 78. Howard University in Washington, D.C., confirmed his death but details weren't immediately available. Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch (yowk) rapped that he wouldn't "sell my songs for no TV ad." His will shows he wanted to make sure that held true after his death. The will was filed in a Manhattan court this week, three months after his death from cancer at age 47. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that a businessman working with Michael Jackson's mother has violated copyrights owned by the singer's estate and should be blocked from future uses of the work. U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson sided with the singer's estate in a ruling against Howard Mann and the website http://www.michaeljacksonsecretvault.com […]

New research reveals that men are willing to go into debt to impress women when there is a scarcity of females in their area. The new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that men develop unwise spending habits when there are fewer women to date. Researchers analyzed financial records in […]

  New reports indicate that Jesse Jackson Jr. ready to continue his campaign for mayor of Chicago. Jackson’s chief of staff, Rick Bryant told reporters that he has reached out to mayors in over 25 Chicago suburbs to prepare them for Jackson’s return. "I told them that the congressman was feeling much better and that […]

There was no red carpet filled with celebrities posing for photos, no snarky commentary by commentators about designer duds, but the Run & Shoot Filmworks annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival at Martha’s Vineyard has been the must-attend events each summer for 10 years. The brainchild of Floyd and Stephanie Rance, the annual festival […]

Vowing to uplift the depressed and callously hopeless attitudes of far too many young people roaming the streets of New York City’s inner city neighborhoods, the Rev. Al Sharpton has pledged to launch his “occupy the corners” movement in earnest later this week. Beginning Friday, Aug. 17 and running for four consecutive weekends, Sharpton, members […]

Senior citizens beware. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan — Mitt Romney's running mate for the White House — wants to dismantle Medicare, which could adversely impact millions of African-American seniors and elderly people of color who rely heavily on the government health care program. Ryan, a policy wonk from Wisconsin, is the architect of a controversial […]