Conventional wisdom says men, especially black men, won’t go to the doctor until it’s too late to stop or reverse illness, but you couldn’t tell by the thousands of black men who showed up recently for the 10th annual Minority Men’s Health Fair at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Dr. Charles Modlin, a kidney transplant […]

If You Missed It, Little Known Black History Facts, Originals

Benjamin Holmes was a slave and a tailor’s apprentice born around 1846. Throughout his life, he would serve many different owners. The South Carolina native was purchased by a hotel owner and moved to Tennessee. Through illegal curiosity, Holmes would teach himself to read and write by reading the signs and words on the doors […]

Whenever I think about the mostly-black, impoverished women who subjected themselves to Philadelphia physician Kermit Gosnell’s seedy abortion procedures, I don’t think about Pennsylvania. I think about Mississippi. The Magnolia State is the nation’s poorest. Thirty-seven percent of its residents are black. Next to the District of Columbia, it has the highest percentage of black […]

Gossip

  Oh Pras! You know how someone can say something touching, and you become moved by what they’ve said, only for them to follow it…

News, Top News

NEW YORK (AP) — While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. Racial diversity among senior team administrators improved to 19.9 percent from […]

Gossip

After years of online beef between Alicia Keys and ex-wife Mashonda, it looks like the two women may be working to repair their adversarial relationship.…

National News, News

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot is climbing again, and fast. In just a few short weeks, the jackpot has ballooned to an estimated $360 million, making it the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot ever. Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says the “cross-selling” of Powerball and Mega Millions tickets, […]

Life & Style

   A Pakistani designer is finding herself in as much immediate trouble as that of someone who knocks down a hornets nest with a big…

Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — As the Twitterverse expands with millions of users, it can be hard to have a unique voice. Nicole Richie doesn’t have that problem. Some examples: “‘It’s 8:30am & I’ve already gotten into 5 fights’ – thugs, and parents of toddlers.” “This therapist is going to be GREAT for me once I […]

Money

In the past five years, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized the way entrepreneurs go about raising capital for new business ventures. Although…

National News, News

MOUNT WASHINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Kentucky have charged a man who officers say had an overnight feast in a closed supermarket outside Louisville. The manager of a ValuMarket says he found 57 empty whipped cream cans in the garbage when he arrived Monday morning. WAVE-TV in Louisville reported 30-year-old Trevor Runyon was charged […]

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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Dave Bing ripped Michigan officials Tuesday for failing to deliver on promises then announced he won’t seek re-election in the city, which recently became the nation’s largest placed under state oversight. “What matters most to me is giving residents a better Detroit,” Bing said in making the announcement at the […]