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The Morehouse alum is an avid basketball fan and rarely misses a Knicks game, but it’s education and minority teachers that currently top his priority list. Spike will join U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in Atlanta for a town hall meeting at Morehouse College on January 31st to encourage more African-American males to go into […]

Queen Latifah is the latest inductee into the Jersey Hall Of Fame. Governor Chris Christie, awarded the rapper/Golden Globe winner the honor yesterday. Queen Latifah is a Newark Native and plans to join other New Jersey natives Martha Stewart, John Travolta and Bruce Willis. The induction ceremony is set to take place June 5, 2011. […]

Jennifer Hudson will be unveiling her single “Where You At” via a LIVE video stream this Monday, January 24 at 12pm EST! You can watch her new video right here! Jennifer will talk about the new album, introduce and play the single and take a few questions from fans. Jennifer Hudson chat: RELATED: Jennifer Hudson […]

A big thanks goes out  to everyone who came out to the Family Comedy Show. The Griff, Small Fire, John Gray and Marcus Wiley had everyone rollin’! Check out pictures from the show!

The happy news hit the net yesterday that Monica is now an official “basketball wife” and now her new hubby, Lakers player Shannon Brown, confirms the news via video.The couple met last summer on the set of Mo’s “Love All Over Me Video” and immediately fell in love. The two sealed their union in a […]

Cathy Cruz Marrero gained fame almost overnight, but not exactly how she wanted to.Better known as “Fountain Girl” by the likes of Perez Hilton, the mall security video of Marrero tripping on a fountain and falling in while texting has already attracted almost 1.7 million views on YouTube. But Marrero’s not laughing. In fact, she […]

VIA: WRAL.COM The controversy surrounding the Wake County school board’s plan to assign students goes up for another debate Wednesday night. The issue is once again getting national attention – this time on a comedy show. First, it was a story in The Washington Post, then a letter to the editor by the U.S. Secretary […]

A backpack containing a pipe bomb was found in Spokane, Washington, along the route of a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. parade, the FBI said Tuesday. The device, capable of inflicting “multiple casualties,” was discovered Monday morning by three parade workers before the event, FBI supervisory agent Frank Harrill told CNN. The city’s explosives disposal […]

Born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929, King’s roots were in the African-American Baptist church. He was the grandson of the Rev. A. D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta’s NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer’s pastor and also became a […]

Washington D.C.– Ahead of celebrations of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, some local officials got an up close and personal tour of the memorial being built in his honor.

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by: Martin Luther King Why We Can’t Wait (Signet Classics) by: Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King Strength to Love by: Martin Luther, Jr. King The Measure of a Man (Facets) by: Martin Luther, Jr. King I Have a Dream: Writings and […]