*Chuck Brown, the legendary Washington D.C. musician known as the “Godfather of Go-Go,” has died,  his daughter confirmed to DC’s ABC7. Brown’s passing comes about a week after the Washington Post confirmed that the musician had been hospitalized with pneumonia. According to Brown’s manager, he died between 2 and 2:30 p.m. today in the intensive […]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Memphis-finally-to-name-street-after-King/-/1719418/10186152/-/130dhrs/-/ CNN) – Forty-four years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of a Memphis hotel, the Tennessee city is overcoming what some call protracted guilt and embarrassment, and naming a street in his honor. A nearly 1-mile stretch of Linden Avenue will be renamed Dr. M.L. King Jr. […]

A South African community once riven by anti-foreigner violence came together Sunday in the spirit of Nelson Mandela to play a little soccer. The so-called “goodwill games” were among activities around the world marking Mandela Day, which falls on Mandela’s July 18 birthday and was conceived as an international day devoted to public service. Community […]

Angela James was a trailblazer on the ice, a fierce competitor who piloted Canada’s national women’s hockey team to four world championships. James blazed another trail Tuesday when she and Cammi Granato, who captained the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team’s gold medal squad in 1998, became the first women inductees to the Hockey Hall of […]

Two women said they were refused part-time employment at a Six Flags amusement park in Prince George’s County, Maryland after being told their dreadlocks violated the company’s grooming policy. The park is located in Largo, an area with a 93 percent black population. In an interview with WJLA-TV, an ABC affiliate Janet Bellow said a […]

                                                                                                    Let’s hope the public feud between Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton about the so-called “black agenda” has finally run its course. It’s morphed into a mess of charges and counter charges, duel political forums and accusations about integrity. If this was a reality show, the Smiley-Sharpton dispute about a master plan for black […]

VIA:  SmokeyRobinson.Com The dictionary defines the popular term “comfort food” as “food prepared in a traditional style having a usually nostalgic or sentimental appeal.” It has been known to have a buffering effect as it soothes the soul and spurs memories of more “comforting” times. If that concept holds up in the kitchen, then it […]

VIA:  AltheaGibson.Com Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, SC, A right-hander, grew up in Harlem. Her family was poor, but she was fortunate in coming to the attention of Dr. Walter Johnson, a Lynchburg VA physician who was active in the black tennis community. He became her patron as he would later for Arthur Ashe, […]

Washington, D.C., native Taraji P. Henson didn’t always know that her smoldering charisma and beautiful face would make her a professional actress. On the contrary, she originally studied electrical engineering when she enrolled at North Carolina Agric & Tech. She later transferred to Howard University, where she attended classes while working as a secretary at […]

VIA:  YAHOO MOVIES.COM: Denzel Washington burst onto the big screen with an Oscar and Golden Globe-winning role in the Civil War epic “Glory” (1989). But over the following decade, the matinee-idol handsome actor became the first of his generation’s African-American movie stars to land squarely on Hollywood’s A-list – as likely to be tapped to […]

VIA: SpeakOutNow.Org Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, […]