LOS ANGELES (AP) — Despite nominees including Idris Elba, Angela Bassett, Cicely Tyson, Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kerry Washington, Laverne Cox and Uzo Aduba. Black actors came up completely empty at this year’s Emmy Awards. Though Scandal’s Joe Morton and Aduba both won at the previously held Creative Emmys ceremony, not one Black actor, writer or […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs says investigators have found no proof that delays in care caused any deaths at a VA hospital in Phoenix, deflating an explosive allegation that helped expose a troubled health care system in which veterans waited months for appointments while employees falsified records to cover up the delays. […]

Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy was arrested after police found an assault rifle on his tour bus, reports the Los Angeles Times. The assault rifle may have a connection the murder of 38-year-old Eric Johnson, a promoter who was shot and killed backstage at a tour stop at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Silicon Valley on the […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the coming years, Californians could have valuable seconds of warning before earthquakes such as this week’s wine country temblor reach them, allowing trains to slow down or stop, power plants and factories to shut off valves, and schoolchildren to dive under desks to avoid falling objects. Earthquake early warning systems […]

ST. LOUIS — It took a village to bury Michael Brown. It took more than the 600 members of Brown’s family who gathered inside the jam-packed Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church. It took more than the 2,500 black folks who filled the sanctuary. It took more than the hundreds of mourners who stood outside the […]

Universal’s upcoming N.W.A. biopic continues to pad its cast, adding actors for the roles of Snoop Dogg, Warren G. and Eazy-E’s widow Tomica Woods. Actor Keith Stanfield, currently in theaters in “The Purge: Anarchy,” will play Snoop, while Sheldon A. Smith will suit up as Warren G. and Carra Patterson from “Why Did I Get […]

NEW YORK (AP) — G Unit surprised fans when its members reunited earlier this summer at the year’s biggest hip-hop concert, and they have another surprise: They digitally released six new songs Beyonce-style early Monday. The rap group dropped “The Beauty of Independence” extended play at midnight, mirroring Beyonce’s successful surprise release of her self-titled […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Prince is releasing a new album on Sept. 30. The pop icon announced Monday that he would release Art Official Age on Warner Bros. Records, the label Prince was signed to from 1978 to the mid-1990s, but later battled for the rights to his music. He reached a deal with Warner […]

The film rights for the “Mother of Hip Hop,” the late Sylvia Robinson (pictured), who helped put the musical genre on the map, was acquired…

In a new report, the U.S. Education Department projected that this fall, the percentage of white students in public schools will drop from 51 percent…

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