Kim Roxie proves you can do more with less. The founder of LAMIK Beauty (pronounced la-MEEK) began her journey into the world of cosmetics out of necessity. While attending Clark-Atlanta University, like many other broke college students, Roxie realized she needed a source of income. “I was in college and couldn’t afford to be there. Then I heard […]

Tameka Foster-Raymond is remembering her son Kile Glover in a big way. On what would have been his 12th birthday, the now mother of four celebrated the launch of “Kile’s World,” a foundation in her late son’s honor. The ex-wife of Usher tweeted that the goal of the organization “is to increase water safety- through […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says a new movie chronicling the rise of baseball great Jackie Robinson, including the racial discrimination he suffered on and off the ballfield, left her and the president visibly moved after they saw it over the weekend. She said the film, “42,” also had them wondering “how on earth” the […]

The struggle of getting a Richard Pryor biopic made is real. Oscar Award-winning actor and producer Forest Whitaker is up for the challenge. He is the latest person to try to bring the life of the legendary comedian’s life to the silver screen. If you’re a person  who stays up on the movie news, you’re probably saying, “Wait, but […]

About 250,000 people in the US have HIV and don’t know it.  These people are unknowingly responsible for up to 75% of new infections. Almost half of new infections are among African Americans. For more than 20 years, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Chairman and Founder of the Magic Johnson Foundation, has been committed to transforming Urban America through […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools across the nation should train selected staff members to carry weapons and should each have at least one armed security officer to make students safer and allow a quicker response to an attack, the director of a National Rifle Association-sponsored study said Tuesday. The task force that produced the report has […]

Rapper Talib Kweli on Monday weighed in on the Rick Ross controversy surrounding his verse on the song U.O.E.N.O. During a HuffPost Live segment hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Kweli took issue with Ross’s contention that his line seeming to promote date rape, was simply a “misunderstanding.” “I don’t care if Rick Ross is 40 […]

It looks like Kandi Burruss may have spilled the beans! On a recent episode of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” the singer-songwriter accidentally leaked that her “Real Housewives of Atlanta” co-star may be getting her own reality spinoff show. While answering a caller’s question about NeNe and former co-star Kim Zolciak’s relationship, Kandi explained that […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Condemned killer Steven Smith‘s argument for mercy isn’t an easy one. Smith acknowledges he intended to sexually assault his girlfriend’s 6-month-old daughter but says he never intended to kill the baby. The girl, Autumn Carter, of Mansfield, died because Smith was too drunk to realize his sexual assault was killing the […]

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn’t sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Instead, 28-year-old Christopher Greer, of Uniontown, tells a judge the phone was in his cargo shorts when he […]

Just last year Brandy‘s boyfriend Ryan Press asked for her hand in marriage. While she has been busy with her new role on “The Game“, Brandy is in the early stages of planning her wedding. We caught up with Brandy and she dished on her chic yet simple details for her nuptials. Check out the video above. […]

Liz Trujillo, the fiancee of Public Enemy and “The Flavor Of Love” alum Flavor Flav, was rushed to the hospital after she began “acting strange”. It’s not clear if she was on the set of VH1‘s “Couples Therapy” when it happened. Flav and Trujillo, who is also the mother of one Flav’s children, decided to join “Couple’s Therapy” to work on their relationship and are […]