In the latest step to strengthen the new Motown Records, a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), Senior Vice President has elected a new face to serve as the Vice President of A&R for Motown records. This was announced today by Barry Weiss, Chairman & CEO of Universal Republic and Island Def Jam Motown, and […]

WASHINGTON— A U.S. official says the Navy SEAL team that rescued two hostages in Somalia was the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden. SEAL Team Six parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness Wednesday and rescued an American woman and a Danish man from an outdoor camp where they were being held by Somali […]

In 2007, Former House speaker and current GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich  described bilingual education as teaching “the language of living in a ghetto,” and he mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages. “The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly […]

Rudy Chestang, a former Alcorn State University (ASU) Braves basketball player, has filed a lawsuit against the university and Dr. Alvin T. Simpson, a psychology professor, for sexual harassment, according to WJTV.com. SEE ALSO: Spike Lee: Hollywood Doesn’t Know About Black People Chicago-native Chestang arrived in Lorman, Miss., in 2005, after accepting an athletic scholarship […]

WASHINGTON  — President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. SEE ALSO: Why Obama Should Say “I’m Rich” The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it’s ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for income equality that echoed the Occupy […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. SEE ALSO: Michael West Says Ghost Punched His Wife — Not Him Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook, […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two years ago, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom joked in emails with his new neighbors in New Zealand about his bad-boy reputation before telling them his criminal past was behind him and he was coming to the country with good intentions. SEE ALSO: Michael West Says Ghost Punched His Wife — […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama delivered a populist challenge Tuesday night to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax the wealthy more and help jobless Americans get work and hang onto their homes. Seeking re-election and needing results, the president invited Republicans to join him […]