Music

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just call CeeLo Green music's newest Santa Claus. The 38-year-old singer-rapper is working on a Christmas album that he promises is "the real deal." Green said in a recent interview that the album, "CeeLo's Magic Moment," is a "soulful take on a host of Christmas classics." Among the tunes to be […]

Entertainment News

Start piling your up pennies because hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and superstar wife Beyonce will be serving up some expensive plates of food for the Obama campaign. The dynamic duo is hosting a fundraiser for President Obama on September 18 at Jay-z's 40/40 club in New York City. According to reports, this will be an intimate […]

National News

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans marked the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks Tuesday in familiar but subdued ceremonies that put grieving families ahead of politicians and suggested it's time to move on after a decade of remembrance. As in past years, thousands gathered at the World Trade Center site in New […]

Health & Wellness

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans have a disproportionately high prevalence of hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, the leading cause of heart attack, stroke and heart failure. To help raise awareness of this and other conditions that overtly affect the African American community – and most importantly, how […]

Gossip

Is Chris Brown going the Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson route and trying to get his woman back by inking her face on his body? Chris is denying that his latest tattoo is of Rihanna but with these two you never know what to believe. Sources close to Breezy say any similarity to Rihanna’s face are coincidental, […]

Gossip

Recently referred to as “the apple of her dad’s eye,” by longtime nanny Grace Rwaramba, 14-year-old Paris Jackson has shared with Glamour magazine that she doesn’t think the title of “Michael Jackson’s Daughter” is a good fit. Paris has been in the news a lot lately; the whole public odyssey surrounding her excessive tweets and […]

National News

Fox News will air a correction for a misleading graphic that ran on Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends.” Liberal watchdog group Media Matters discovered the errors in the graphic displaying the unemployment rates during President Barack Obama’s term. The graphic tried to compare the official unemployment figure in 2009 to the “real” 2012 unemployment figure. However, […]

TV & Film

This year, fall TV has more than a few black faces. While you’ll still have to look to Tyler Perry or Shonda Rhimes to see more than just one or two black faces on any given show, several black actors are happily cashing network checks this fall TV season. There are a few compelling questions […]

Got a question for Dr. Robin? Text it to “646464” (OHOHOH). — We all know about finding comfort in food when we have the blues, a down day, or a need to protect ourselves from bigger hurts. But when the struggle is with food or relationships or money, the real culprit may be that we […]

Damon Williams talks about with the crew about a mom, 52, chases intruder out of house and pins him down after he hits her over the head with a 2×4. Plus, a man who withdraws $1500 dollars from the bank and tries to blame it on his son.

Little Known Black History Facts

General Alexandre Dumas was a mixed-race Haitian slave and swordsman who had been nearly erased from history by his jealous rival, Napoleon Bonaparte. General Dumas was born in 1762 to a slave mother and a white father in Haiti. His father was a fugitive. Though he could have taken his father’s respected last name, he […]

Top News

A disgraced, former New York City police officer now insists he only hatched the ticket-writing scheme of issuing summonses to dead people that caused him his career as a means of satisfying orders from his superiors to drastically increase the 125 to 150 citations he was already producing each month. Paul Pizzuto, a 17-year veteran […]