All to often we see celebrities, politicians, and corporations make tragic mistakes which offend or harm the people within the Black community.

German singer Nadja Benaissa was charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a man who contracted H.I.V. after having unprotected sex with her admitted in court on Monday that she had concealed the fact that she was infected with the virus from the man, and from two other sexual partners.

After spending most of his years working on the critically-acclaimed series “The Wire,” Idris Elba is a man in demand in Hollywood. Currently, he is prepping for the release of his new movie “Takers.” To find out the new roles he’s been recently casted in and to see a gallery of the popular star: Read […]

In 2001, former Surgeon General David Satcher called the prevalence of overweight and obesity in America a crisis of “epidemic proportions.” At this time, the rates of childhood obesity had tripled since 1970, and some experts predicted, for the first time in history, that children would have shorter life spans than their parents.

South Carolina Senate nominee Alvin Greene (D) insisted that he will remain in the race in an odd interview published Saturday.

En route to Florida, President Obama clarifies his stance on allowing a Mosque to be built near Ground-Zero.

Heat Forward Udonis Haslem, arrested over the weekend and charged with drug possession, has bonded out. He faces felony drug charges after state police found marijuana in his car during a traffic stop Aug. 15.

Dashawn Longfellow, a former U.S. Marine, was in Thailand for vacation and to study Muay Thai, or Thai boxing – and that may have been what got him killed, according to Thai police.

Forty, 50, even 60 years later, Athens High and Industrial School and Burney-Harris High School alumni still remember their school song. More than 100 of them sang it Saturday after unveiling a plaque marking the site of Georgia's first high school for African Americans at what's now a vacant lot at the corner of North Pope and Reese streets.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to leave his job next year.