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LL Cool J wants y’all to know that despite earlier reports, he never landed a lip balm endorsement because “they didn’t like my black lips.” After 13 studio albums and more than 30 years in the game, LL is considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. At the height of his career, the Queens-native  […]

Dave Bartholomew was an important figure in music, notable for discovering talented stars such as Fats Domino and others, along with putting his stylistic imprint on the early sounds of rock and roll. The Big Easy native passed on June 23rd. Bartholomew was born December 24, 198 in Edgard La., 39 miles west of New […]

WHAT IS POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)? All humans are endowed with a biological and psychological stress response system. Our genetic “Fight or Flight” response is designed for crisis management. This life-saving response causes the body to release stress hormones to fight or get out of harm’s way (flight). It also automatically pumps the heart […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against former White House staffer and reality TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman, alleging she failed to file a legally required financial disclosure after she was fired from her job in the Trump administration. The suit alleges Manigault Newman, who worked as the director of communications […]

Ayesha Curry, wife of NBA superstar Steph Curry, hit up “The View” last week to promote her new ABC show “Family Food,” an eight-episode summer series debuting July 11 that features diverse, multi-generational teams competing for the title of “America’s No. 1 Food Family” and a $100,000 prize. “It’s just this big melting pot of diversity […]

Just days after bonding out, a woman accused of running over and killing her 3-year-old son while playing a deadly “game of chicken” was back in custody on Monday for her first court appearance, and the judge raised her bond at the request of prosecutors. 26-year-old Lexus Stagg has been charged with criminally negligent homicide after prosecutors […]

Talk about a blast from the past! Tom Joyner has interviewed numerous icons throughout his career but unfortunately most of the interviews were not videotaped. Luckily for us, we have this footage of Joyner interviewing the one and only Michael Jackson! Rocking a fro’ and a powder blue jumpsuit, radio legend Tom Joyner sat down […]

We love our braids and weaves but when it’s time to take it down, Wendy Raquel Robinson says, “the struggle is too real!” It’s so heartbreaking when someone is helping you out and cut too high on the braid and they actually cut your hair. That’s why she says “you can’t get just anybody to […]

Michael Bearden is an amazingly talented music director who has worked with over 400 artists. He was the music director for Michael Jackson’s final tour, This Is It. Bearden “can’t believe it’s been 10 years,” and remembers exactly where he was when he got the news. He was at the Staples Center preparing for rehearsal […]

Everyday when news breaks of something Donald Trump has done or said, we all go “what now?!” Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with journalist and author Joy Reid who has a new book out called, The Man Who Sold America. Joy explaines that with the amount of scandals that come out of the White […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police on Monday released more than 1,000 files from the investigation into Jussie Smollett’s claim he was attacked by two men, including video footage that for the first time shows the “Empire” actor with a thin, white rope wrapped around his neck that he told detectives was a noose. The footage […]

The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation. Just 30 children remained at the station outside El Paso Monday, said Rep. Veronica Escobar after her office […]