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All good things come to an end as Jay-Z and Eminem wrapped up the fourth and final concert of their Home and Home shows on Tuesday night. The MCs, who brought out a slew of special guests to make the event even more spectacular, had fans in awe as they left Yankee Stadium.

The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) recently held its annual fall Board of Directors meeting in Charleston, S.C. last weekend, dubbed “The Southern Experience”. The BVX.com reports that controversial pictures of S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnel have surfaced online, with the South Carolina leader dressed as a confederate soldier posing with Black people dressed […]

Although Omarosa was one tough chick in the ‘Apprentice’ boardroom, she’s got a soft spot for her new beau, ‘Green Mile’ actor Michael Clarke Duncan.

Shaquille O’Neal is being sued in Dade County, Florida, by a former employee of his, Shawn Darling.

During her research for the book, Isabel Wilkerson interviewed more than 1,000 people who made the migration from the South to Northern and Western cities. Interestingly, many of the people who Wilkerson encountered — who moved during the time period of 1915 to 1970 — had no idea that they were even part of the […]

The protester who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero has been fired from NJTransit, sources and authorities said Tuesday.

For the first time anywhere African American women can relax and straighten their hair without the fear of a burning scalp or hair loss, with new “green” alternative.

There’s a lot of talk about race these days.  But high-frequency chatter can obscure some of the more important longer-term trends shaping the lives of African-Americans.  Which is why Betsey Stevenson and I turn to the data, in a new paper, “Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Happiness.”  The full version is here, but David Leonhardt does […]

Varnette Honeywood, an artist whose paintings adorned the walls of the set of “The Cosby Show” and whose strikingly colorful images depicted tender moments in black family life, has died. She was 59.

The former Broncos great and television analyst is battling a sexual assault allegation.

If you haven’t read my favorite book of all time, Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, then click off this post and find something else.