Bisa French was a single mother who became a cop at age 22. After years of struggling to provide her son with a good life, she is now the first African-American woman captain in the Richmond Police Department in Richmond, California and the youngest captain of any gender or ethnicity. On June 2, the 37-year-old […]

Republicans are furious about the “Cupid Shuffle.” They accuse the IRS of wasting taxpayer dollars by teaching employees how to line dance, allegedly on company time. And GOP lawmakers say they can prove their claims: They have a video. The House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, released a […]

DETROIT (AP) — Armed with a shield and a submachine gun, a highly trained Detroit police officer made critical errors during a house raid that led to the fatal shooting of a sleeping 7-year-old girl, a prosecutor told jurors Monday. There is no argument that an unintentional shot from Joseph Weekley’s gun killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones […]

CHICAGO (AP) — New research suggests that bad genes may be responsible for more breast cancer cases in black women than has been previously known. About 1 in 5 African-American women with the disease have an inherited mutation that drastically raises their risk for breast and ovarian cancer, according to a study released Monday. It […]

Actor Michael Douglas sat down with the UK’s The Guardian news outlet to talk about his upcoming HBO film “Behind the Candelabra” when he was quoted as saying that he did not regret smoking and drinking for years ahead of his diagnosis. “No,” he said. “No. Because, without wanting to get too specific, this particular […]

Following a longstanding argument with her landlord over unpaid rent, Lauryn Hill has finally agreed to leave her New Jersey mansion. The 37-year-old former Fugees star was hit with the lawsuit in March, and appears to have complied with the terms, agreeing to pay $7,000 in rent and vacate by May 31, according to TMZ. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Soul singer Sharon Jones has cancer and has canceled plans for an album and tour in 2013. A Monday news release says Jones has stage-one bile duct cancer and needs immediate surgery. Jones and her band, the Dap-Kings, had planned to release “Give the People What They Want” on Aug. 6 […]

I’m throwing down a gauntlet. And I’m throwing it right at the feet of NAACP CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. Protocol says that it’s Jealous who’s supposed to pick up that gauntlet. But if he doesn’t pick it up, I’ll pick it up. And I just might pimp slap him with it. I’m challenging Jealous to […]

The “Mrs. Carter World Tour” is well underway, and although Beyonce has four albums worth of original material to perform to her sold-out audience, she…

History The last time Chevy offered a diesel engine in a car was with the outgoing Chevy Chevette in the mid-eighties. Fast forward a few decades, Chevy is the back in the game. This time they have returned with a diesel engine in its popular compact, the 2014 Cruze.  In fact, the Cruze becomes the […]

PARIS (AP) — Serena Williams knew, of course, that 11 years had passed since her only French Open championship. She also knew, of course, what happened a year ago in Paris: the only first-round Grand Slam loss of her career, to a woman ranked outside the top 100, no less. Eager to repeat the elation […]

Gorgeous gals, Kelly Rowland and Gabrielle Union continue to take the music and movie world by storm. Kelly is currently on tour with The Dream,…