Sybil Wilkes reports today's news headlines including the shooting in Auburn, Alabama, the Creflo Dollar arrest, the strained relationship of Usher's mother and estranged wife, Tameka Foster, and more.

Today’s questions were submitted by Text Tom Club members in response to last week’s topic, tax filing and dependents. — Can two parents claim the same child for six months each? The key question here is:  How many taxpayers can claim a given dependent child?  The answer is:  one.  So a married couple can claim […]

The 1984 film “Beat Street” by Steven Hager was the first American film featuring two soundtracks. The film, which was originally titled “Looking for the Perfect Beat” featured popular rap groups of the 1980’s like the Rock Steady Crew, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, the Treacherous Three (featuring Kool Mo Dee), Grandmaster Melle […]

Gospel star Fred Hammond will soon come to a city near you on the McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration Gospel tour. Now in its sixth year, Hammond will star with Byron Cage. J Moss, Myron Butler, Canton Jones, Vashawn Mitchell and 21:03 also appear in selected cities. The free concerts are in conjunction with McDonald’s 365 Black […]

The Celebrity Snitch is back for another week of funny. Huggy talks about the hottest Christian gossip since the Bishop Eddie Long scandal: Creflo Dollar's discipline tactics. If you haven't heard, the megachurch pastor was arrested last Friday for choking and assaulting his 16-year-old daughter, who attempted to go to a 1 o'clock a.m. party. […]

Comedian Dominique tries hard to understand Lauryn Hill's recent explanation for not paying taxes and reminds the singer of Wesley Snipes' run-in with the IRS. Dominique also puts her two cents in on this weekend's Pacquiao loss.

Proclaiming it the face of modern day racial profiling, the Rev. Al Sharpton is slated to lead a Father’s Day march through Harlem calling further attention to statistics revealing more black and Latino men have been restrained based on the city’s controversial “stop and frisk” policies than there are members of that overall  population throughout […]

Eric Benet Jordan has been a around for a while now. The 45-year-old crooner has always made good music, but his profile grew even higher with his 2001 marriage to Halle Berry. At first, it looked like a match that would go the distance, but a few years into the marriage, it was discovered that […]

Two football players who had dreamed of being part of Auburn University’s winning tradition were slain Saturday night along with an Auburn resident in a shooting that has stunned a college town usually sleepy in the summer. Police and U.S. Marshals continue to search for the 22-year-old Desmonte Leonard suspected of killing three people and […]

While Kanye West was in Ireland watching the throne on his 35th birthday, his girlfriend Kim Kardashian gave him something else to feast his eyes on: a new Lamborghini. Go to The Urban Daily to see photo.

NEW YORK (AP) — Year after year it's a sure bet that the comforting graduation mainstay "Pomp and Circumstance" is drowned out on occasion by airhorns, cowbells or the sheer lung power of proud friends and family. What appears to have changed is stiffer retribution for those in the crowd who don't want to save […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey talks to eight, count 'em, eight Kardashian-Jenner family members in an interview set to air on Winfrey's cable channel, OWN. Winfrey talked to Kris and Bruce Jenner and their combined offspring at their Hidden Hills, Calif., home. Also on hand were Khloe Kardashian's husband, Lamar Odom, and Kourtney Kardashian's […]