Alcorn State denied Alabama A&M an opportunity to take a strangle hold on the SWAC East Division race with a 21-20 upset of the previously unbeaten Bulldogs on their Homecoming in Huntsville, Ala., Saturday. Alcorn State denied Alabama A&M an opportunity to take a strangle hold on the SWAC East Division race with a 21-20 […]

Why is it so important to write a will? I know none of us really want to think about our own death; and I’m not the Grim Reaper, but I am here to remind everyone that we’re all going to die someday and I can’t stress enough that if you don't have a solid legal […]

For one night only the nuisance of a traffic jam on the Bronx's Grand Concourse was not the result of a Yankees game and could be forgiven for a good cause: Black Girls Rock. On Saturday, the glitterati sauntered across the red carpet and filled the borough's landmark venue New York Loews Paradise Theater to […]

Edith Sampson was the first black person appointed to the United Nations. She was a Pittsburgh native who found her calling in social work. Sampson was forced to leave school at age 14 to work and support her family but later graduated from college. She was encouraged to attend law school and would graduate number […]

MIAMI (AP) — In the latest embarrassing spectacle for the Secret Service, one of its officers was found passed out and apparently drunk on a Miami street corner less than 12 hours after President Barack Obama left the city.   Aaron Francis Engler, an officer with the storied agency's uniformed division, was not on duty when […]

Boxing legend Evander Holyfield said he will never enter the boxing ring again. Holyfield is shutting down rumors that he was preparing for a boxing comeback. After his last fight in 2011, Holyfield suggested that he would return to the boxing ring one last time before hanging up his gloves. But now, he said he […]

New reports say that Danny DeVito’s separation may be the result of his affairs with movie extras. Last week, the actor and his estranged wife Rhea Perlman announced their separation after 30 years of marriage.   A former crew member from DeVito’s 1990s film Hoffa tells reporters that DeVito and a young blonde extra would […]

New research suggests that men may have difficulty taking a contraceptive pill regularly. Researchers at Monash University have developed a male contraceptive pill. Scientists mutated a gene that is described as fuel delivered to the engine room of a sperm’s tail. “It’s one extra piece of the puzzle to finding out how sperm are made […]

NEW YORK (AP) — "Saturday Night Live" parodied the vice presidential debate with a little help from the world's fastest man. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt dropped by the NBC sketch show's mock debate after Taran Killam, playing Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, claimed he won the 100-meter race at the London Olympics. Ryan has […]

Magic Johnson is a businessman with intentions to grow. The former NBA star purchased the rights to “Soul Train,” and is now ready to make it happen with a Don Cornelius biopic. “We’re talking about a movie of Don Cornelius, a movie of his life,” Johnson shared as a guest on ”The Wendy Williams Show” […]

Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama. Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he's black? If race is just one factor in blacks' support of Obama, does that make […]

DENVER (AP) — Denver police are reviewing video footage from city surveillance cameras after a shot was fired through the window of President Barack Obama's campaign office. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says cameras are in the area of the campaign office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street near Denver's downtown, and investigators are poring […]