WASHINGTON (AP) — Friends and family of Julian Bond remembered the deceased civil rights leader as a man who left a lasting “invaluable imprint” on not only the civil rights movement but on people around the United States and the globe. Bond’s admirers gathered at the Lincoln Theater in Washington on Tuesday to remember Bond, […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn’t seem to know he was potentially violent. The online writings by Laurel Harper, who is […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal inmates serving sentences for drug crimes are set for early release next month under a cost-cutting measure intended to reduce the nation’s prison population. The more than 5,500 inmates set to go free in November are among the first of what could eventually be tens of thousands eligible for […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A handcuffed man seeking to avoid arrest died after crashing head-first through the third-floor window glass of a downtown Atlanta office building and falling 40 feet to the ground, authorities said Tuesday. The man reported Tuesday to a pretrial services program of Atlanta’s Fulton County Superior Court when authorities determined he had […]

Lifetime has announced the full cast for its original film Un-Break My Heart, based on Toni Braxton’s memoir about her struggles with illness, financial troubles and divorce while navigating her son’s autism and family struggles. Debbi Morgan (Power, All My Children) will play Braxton’s mother, Evelyn, while Gavin Houston (Guiding Light) will play her frequent […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A supervisor at a Michigan fiberglass factory who won a $310.5 million Powerball jackpot said Tuesday that she immediately quit her one-time “nasty, dirty” job and will buy land to build houses for her family. Julie Leach of Three Rivers said she was having a “really bad night” working the third […]

America already has a First Family in the White House – and it’s certainly not the Kardashians. Like many Americans, I was disgusted with Cosmopolitan magazine boldly making the headline claim “America’s First Family,” which features the Kardashian and Jenner women on the cover of the November 2015 issue. What an awful decision by Cosmopolitan’s […]

They made a lot of news recently when they were unceremoniously kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train for laughing and having a good time. In their first televised interview since the incident on August 22, members of the book club “Sistahs on the Reading Edge” sit down with “The Real” hosts to discuss what […]

Louisville campus police now say they are reviewing allegations that a former men’s basketball staffer hired escorts to dance and have sex with recruits and players in a dormitory. Katina Powell has alleged in a book released online over the weekend that former Cardinals director of basketball operation Andre McGee paid her $10,000 for dancers […]

Empire star Jussie Smollett and former pro-football player Michael Sam have been seen together quite a few times lately. TMZ caught up with Smollett to get to the bottom of the rumors. When asked about Michael – who just broke up with his fiancé Vito Cammisano – Jussie replied, “That’s the homie right there,” squashing all thoughts of a […]

What do the Tom Joyner Morning Show and the D.L. Hughley Show‘s crews do in-between shows? They get together at McDonald’s for the NEW all day breakfast of course! Watch the video above to see what happens when morning show hosts Tom Joyner and his crew, Sybil Wilkes, and J. Anthony Brown hang out at McDonald’s […]

Want a behind the scenes look at what “The Tom Joyner Morning Show” and “The D.L. Hughley Show” crews do in-between shows? They get together at McDonald’s for breakfast of course! Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Check out morning show hosts Tom Joyner and his crew, Sybil Wilkes, and J. Anthony Brown at McDonald’s hanging […]