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Every hoops fan dreams of that one special birthday when his pro-ball heroes gather on a court to see if he’s got game.

My grandmother sent me a short but sweet e-mail this morning, asking if I’m doing okay here in Haiti, where I work as a freelance journalist. She said the country has popped up in the news again because Wyclef Jean, a Haitian-born musician, is running for president.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R) says America faces a new and growing foreign threat: illegal immigrants and tourists who come to here for the express purpose of giving birth so their children obtain citizenship.

While a high-profile battle rages over a mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, heated confrontations have also broken out in communities across the country where mosques are proposed for far less hallowed locations.

Glenn Beck compared Obama’s America to “the damn Planet of the Apes,” Thursday during a rant against the president’s praise for the AFL-CIO.

Roland Martin talks to Bernice King about her desire to unite the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. WATCH: Bernice King Opens Up About The SCLC.

With their 40th anniversary cover, Essence Magazine has decided to feature super models Naomi Campbell, Iman, and Liya Kebede following the magazine’s controversy over hiring a white Fashion Editor. Click here to view photos: RELATED: Former Supermodel Beverly Peele In Serious Condition After Car Accident Naomi Campbell Testifies In Dictator’s Blood Diamond Trial

FORT WORTH, TX — Patients would show up at all hours. Sometimes with a broken arm, or a burst appendix, or a baby on the way. They filled the wards of the 20-bed hospital that Dr. Riley Ransom Sr. opened in 1914, and they spilled into the large convalescent porch. From early in the morning […]

Sephora does not want to kiss and make up.

Rush Limbaugh said Friday that the media is allowing Michelle Obama to take a vacation as a form of reparations for “our slave past.”

You’ve probably heard by now that Michelle Obama is out of touch, apathetic, or simply selfish for taking a four-day jaunt to Spain to show her daughter some culture. Andrea Tantaros over at the New York Post spent a lot of time on Thursday penning an editorial accusing Obama of being a “modern-day Marie Antoinette”—tone-deaf […]

The mass murders committed by Connecticut resident, Omar Thornton, earlier this week, were a tragedy no doubt, but they reveal what a lot of Blacks still face nowadays. Regardless of how the media, politicians and local and federal law enforcement spin it, racism is alive and well and it’s kicking as hard now as it […]