I don’t know about you, but travel brings out the worst in my eating habits: concourse food en route to the gate, excessive caffeine intake while trying to keep up with a hectic schedule, being away from my favorite group fitness classes, and in the case of business travel—meals with colleagues that include rich foods […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the District of Columbia Council was charged Wednesday with lying about his income on loan applications and told colleagues in a closed-door meeting that he planned to resign. The bank fraud charge against Kwame R. Brown, one of the most influential leaders in D.C. government, is the latest allegation […]

So how is Bill Clinton helping President Barack Obama by praising Mitt Romney? In an appearance on CNN last week, Clinton said that Mitt Romney has a “sterling business career” and argued that the Obama campaign shouldn’t focus on Romney’s business record. “I don’t think we ought to get into the position where we say […]

This month, we celebrate black music and we do so today with the first of our Top Tens. For this one, we’ve selected the 10 hottest songs you’re most likely to hear at any backyard barbeque you go to this summer, went to last summer or will go to in any summer to come. These […]

Dear Prince: I know that as a Jehovah’s Witness you probably no longer celebrate birthdays, but I hope you don’t mind if your fans, of which I am certainly one, celebrate for and with you on your 54th birthday. I’m sure it must be difficult to walk around when you have people falling out and […]

James Lesure stays working, so it’s probably no accident he’s now on a new TBS show, “Men at Work.” Lesure had two good runs as Mike Cannon on the long-running ABC show “Las Vegas” with Josh Duhamel and Molly Sims, and was Holly Robinson’s TV husband, Mel Ellis, on the WB sitcom “For Your Love.” […]

Talk about a faith walk. Chicago pastor Corey Brooks has already lived on a rooftop, so walking across the country is not that much of a stretch. It’s all for a good cause. Brooks, the pastor of New Beginnings Church in Chicago spent three months living on the rooftop of his church earlier this year […]

Oprah Winfrey has been stripped of her executive powers at her own struggling network, according to a report in the National Enquirer. Her chief financial backer, Discovery Communications, supported the motion to revoke her privileges. Sources say she was reduced to tears. “Oprah’s situation is equivalent to Donald Trump telling one of his ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ […]

Winner’s name: Michelle Howard for her son, Ladale (la-dell), Greenville, South Carolina Hello Tom: Five years ago, the world as I knew it changed. It started out like any other ordinary day — trying to keep up with my then active five year-old son, Ladale. He liked to jump around on my bed doing flips […]

Kimora Lee and Djimon Hounsou have reportedly separated, according to the NY Daily News. A source close to the couple says the two have split after a “big fight over money.” In other Kimora news, the Trulia Luxe Living blog reported last week that Kimora, the creative director and president of shopping web site JustFab.com, […]

Roland Martin talks with Congresswoman Gwen Moore about the "spin" in the reporting of the Wisconsin election.

Comedian Chris Paul delivers the strange and funny news headlines: a three-year-old riding in a car with a loaded handgun, an elderly man is thrown out of a Barnes and Noble for browsing alone in the children's area, and Janet Jackson produces a new documentary about the transgender life.