If you like to seduce or be seduced, chances are you’re familiar with the Detroit-based crooner known as KEM. Born Kem Owens, he struggled with addiction and homelessness before finding his way through music. His jazz-inflected R&B has been seducing his fans since the release of his debut CD “Kemistry” in 2003. His third CD, […]

Bobby Brown has pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunk driving in California. Whitney Houston’s ex-husband was arraigned in a Van Nuys court Monday morning, where he faced three misdemeanor counts for a DUI, driving on a suspended license and talking on his cell phone behind the wheel. Brown did not appear in court […]

Fire tore through a row house early Monday, killing two young children and two adults in the city’s third fatal blaze in a week. The blaze broke out at the two-story home in west Philadelphia shortly before 4:45 a.m., Executive Chief Richard Davison said. A 23-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and a […]

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed legislation that would require thousands of people applying for welfare to pass a drug test before they could receive benefits. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the law over the opposition of Democrats. Backers say it will ensure that welfare benefits are used for their intended purpose and not to subsidize […]

A Los Angeles based male porn performer passed away on Saturday, just five days after an altercation with LAPD. According to reports, the actor was shot with a Taser gun. Marland Anderson, who was suffering from depression, attempted suicide last Sunday. Police responded and found the actor with his girlfriend. He had suffered an anxiety […]

A seemingly divided Supreme Court on Monday weighed a potentially costly challenge to the pharmaceutical industry’s practice of not paying overtime to its sales representatives. The justices questioned whether the federal law governing overtime pay should apply to the roughly 90,000 people who try to persuade doctors to prescribe certain drugs to their patients. Many […]

Edolphus Towns, the Democratic congressman from New York City who was a longtime political stalwart for his working-class Brooklyn district, won’t be running for a 16th term, his office said Monday. Towns assistant Allan Joseph told The Associated Press that the 77-year-old lawmaker will retire in January after 30 years in Congress. Towns, who would […]

Broadcast journalist Gil Noble was a pioneer in TV broadcasting and a well-known reporter during the civil rights era. Gil Noble has produced the largest collection of programs and documentaries on the African-American experience. Some of his key interviews were with Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dr. Martin Luther King, President Nelson Mandela, Lena Horne, […]

Looking at former NFL star Warren Sapp’s bankruptcy filing, it’s hard not to focus on the Florida mansion he owns (18,000 square feet, according to property records) or the number of pricey athletic shoes he’s purchased (240 pairs, many still in the box unworn). Sapp lists assets of nearly $6.5 million and liabilities of $6.7 […]

For more than a decade, contemporary artist Rashid Johnson has worked almost under the radar, turning out work presented at museums and coveted by collectors around the world. But in the last year, the Chicago native, whose works made from everyday objects explore his own life story as well as larger issues of black identity, […]

The Brooklyn Museum’s feminist art center is marking its fifth anniversary this year by commemorating famous women of the next millennium – placing them alongside luminaries of the past. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is using Judy Chicago’s work, “The Dinner Party,” a massive triangular banquet table, to envision a place where […]

A brew and a bro – it’s the classic pairing, right? Not necessarily. From the rise of female brew masters to the growth of women’s tasting groups, women are becoming much more than a pint-sized part of the brewing world. The emergence of women as both beer-lovers and brewers happened as the craft beer scene […]