WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will take steps to improve doctor training and ease access to drug treatment as part of an effort to help communities battling the scourge of heroin and prescription painkiller abuse. A White House official says Obama will detail the moves Wednesday on a day trip to Charleston, West Virginia. […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An effort to legalize medical and recreational marijuana in Ohio is getting the backing of TV personality Montel Williams. The celebrity who hosted “The Montel Williams Show” for a decade is scheduled to endorse Issue 3 during a Columbus appearance Wednesday. Williams also will announce opposition to Issue 2, a proposed […]

Why can’t we be friends? Where is the love? Some women really just can’t get along. They can’t sustain healthy, friendly relationships with each other and things end up going sourly. Why is that? Jasmine Sanders has your answer to that question with a list of ten reasons why some women just cannot be friends. Click […]

A Black man who spent six weeks in jail has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for jailing him for wearing a hoodie.

Oscar Winner Lupita Nyong’o will continue to star in the play Eclipsed when it moves to Broadway in February, reports Deadline.com. Nyong’o, who’s also about to be seen as the motion-capture character Maz Kanata in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” plays a young woman forced to join a group of “wives” who are in fact […]

Social media users were critical in August when Marie Holmes, 26, of Wilmington, North Carolina paid $9 million to twice bail out her fiancé, Lamarr McDow, from jail.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police on Wednesday used stun grenades outside the parliament building in Cape Town to disperse students demonstrating against planned tuition increases. The violence unfolded after students pushed their way through a parliament gate and scuffled with riot police. Earlier, security guards forcibly removed a group of opposition lawmakers from the […]

Financial health. That’s something that you don’t always hear about until a bill is due.  But just as your physical health is necessary for you…

Tamar Braxton gave one of her best performances on Monday’s Dancing With The Stars face-off.  The talk show host, recreated Janet Jackson’s iconic Rhythm Nation dance and you tell us, do you think she nailed it? Watch below: Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. (Photo Source: Monica Instagram/Video Source: YouTube)

Remember the North Carolina woman who won millions in the Powerball in February ? Her fiance has been arrested for the third time in 11 months, and yes, she was there to bail him out — again. WNCN reports: Lamarr Andre McDow, also known as “Hot Sauce,” was arrested Monday morning under a charge of possession […]

10/21/15- Dear Tom, I am a 51 year-old single parent of a 16 year-old boy who is autistic.  I am also a school teacher for one of the countries dangerous high schools, Chester high.   It is in one of Pennsylvania’s poorest school districts and recently they were unable to make payroll due to budget debt.   […]

Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the delay of Vice Presdient’s Biden announcement into the 2016 presidential race. “It’s attractive to many people. At worst it would give opportunities. I like VP Biden and I respect him, but all of the oxygen in the room is about whether or not he’ll run or not,” Sharpton said.