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CNN anchor Don Lemon admitted over the weekend that he was a victim of a pedophile as a child. Lemon made the startling announcement on live TV while discussing the scandal involving Georgia Bishop Eddie Long, who is accused of sexually abusing male teenage members of his church. “I have never admitted this on television,” […]

Gospel star Marvin Sapp took the stage briefly Thursday afternoon at his wife, MaLinda Sapp’s, funeral.

A 19-year-old student has died after a man who was kicked out of a frat party returned with a gun and opened fire, police said today. Jessica Moore died and four others were wounded in the shooting near Seton Hall University in the US. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Ms Moore died overnight […]

Bishop Eddie Long spoke at a press conference to reporters at a 10 a.m. news conference today at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., after a scandal that has resulted from days of allegations that he coerced four young men into sex.

A restaurant in Pittsburgh is being criticized for a flavor of chicken wings called “Black On Black Crime,” WPXI reports. Big Shot Bob’s is more popularly known for its 100 different flavors of wings, but it was the “black on black crime” wing flavor that generated the negative publicity. Channel 11 first learned about the […]

The power of any pastor over his or her parishioners is derived from their “calling” to minister the Gospel from God, or as some call it, the anointing by the Holy Spirit. But the role of a pastor — the Bible speaks to being a shepherd of a flock — also comes from the belief […]

In a series of skits and “Weekend Update” segments over the past two years, the cast of “Saturday Night Live” has mercilessly mocked Gov. David A. Paterson’s impaired vision and presented him as an improbably clumsy figure who walks into cameras, holds charts upside down and hates New Jersey. The genial Mr. Paterson, in turn, […]

House Republicans will head to a hardware store in Virginia tomorrow to unveil their Pledge to America, billed as a comprehensive set of reforms along the lines of Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America in 1994. Democrats already say it’s the same-old, same-old. Politico and the Wall Street Journal hit some highlights: Share this post on […]

A fourth man, Spencer LeGrande, is charging Bishop Eddie Long with sexual abuse, the Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting. Spencer LeGrande, named in a civil lawsuit filed Friday, claims he was 17 the first time the two had a sexual relationship while vacationing in Nairobi, Kenya. LeGrande, of Charlotte, N.C., alleges that the New Birth […]

Republicans have been making hay of comedian Stephen Colbert’s credentials as an expert witness on farm workers. And after two hours in a witness seat before a House Judiciary panel in a crowded hearing room, he left many of the lawmakers scratching their heads.