According to AllHipHop.com, Kanye West has been selling some wild looking merchandise at his shows without any explanation as to why in the world…

These are not your grandmother’s biceps …Nikki and Mary talk to a 75-year-old body builder in Mamas Gone Wild episode #29

Have a question for the doctor? Text it to “646464” (OHOHOH). It is open enrollment season for Medicare, Part D when anyone with Medicare coverage can change his health plan and prescription drug coverage. That goes for anyone who gets health benefits through Original Medicare, a Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plan with no drug benefit, a […]

Davion Only is a 15-year-old orphan who desperately wants something many people take for granted: A family. “I’ll take anyone,” Davion said as he stood in the pulpit of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida on a recent Sunday morning. “Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don’t care. […]

I’ll begin this column off with a confession: I love, love, love cupcakes. I see my local cupcake dealer for a fix once a week. I usually buy two – usually a coconut one and a birthday cake one. I eat half of one at night – well, OK sometimes a whole one – after […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A dim view of the U.S. job market emerged Tuesday with a report that employers cut back on hiring in September just before a partial government shutdown began. Just 148,000 jobs were added last month, a steep drop from August’s gain, though they were enough to lower unemployment to 7.2 percent from […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn’t qualify for them, according to a Treasury report released Tuesday. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families. In his report, IRS inspector general J. Russell George said […]

DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of Detroit streetlights are dark. Many more residents have fled. Donors are replacing ambulances that limped around for 200,000 miles. Millions in debt payments have been skipped. Is there really any doubt the city is broke? A judge starts exploring that question Wednesday in an unusual trial to determine whether Detroit […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public schools would be barred from employing teachers and other workers convicted of sexual offenses against children or other violent crimes under a bill the House was expected to approve Tuesday. The measure would require school systems to check state and federal criminal records for employees with unsupervised access to elementary and […]

VH1 went into beast mode with its original movie “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” which became the network’s highest-rated telecast in more than five years. The 9 p.m. premiere last night averaged 4.5 million total viewers and ranks as the No. 1 original cable movie this year in adults and women 18-49. It’s also VH1’s highest-rated […]

Philip Nace should thank his lucky stars he’s never run across anyone like Mumia Abu Jamal. Nace is the lead character in a YouTube video that was recently posted. Nace, a white Philadelphia cop, and his partner – also white – subjected two black men to what is known as a “stop and frisk” on […]

ORAL HEALTH AFFECTS TOTAL HEALTH Your body can’t be healthy unless your mouth is healthy. In fact, dental care is medically necessary. Previous research linked gum disease with diabetes, low birth weight babies, and heart disease. Current research shows that gum disease may have even more of an impact on overall health than previously thought. […]