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In the frenzied hours after the Penn State Board of Trustees announced that Joe Paterno was being relieved of his duties as football coach effective immediately, students in State College took to the streets in support of the former coach while college football analysts around the country sought to place his fall from grace in […]

Rev. Al Sharpton slammed Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly earlier this week after O’Reilly wondered why Sharpton, Jackson or other Civil Rights leaders had failed to come to the defense of Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain.

A video showing a teen punching a homeless man on the Chicago El train has sparked outrage in the online community. The video, which appears to have been shot in April, was posted on the website World Star Hip Hop last weekend and immediately went viral. It shows a teen walking up to a man […]

Yesterday, Toni Braxton and her sisters along with their mother made an appearance on The Wendy Williams show to promote the second season of “The Braxton Family Values.” There was a whole lot of Braxton personality on that stage as the sisters talked about Trina’s drinking problems, Tamar’s lighter skin, Towanda’s open relationship with her husband and […]

Conjoined twin girls from the Dominican Republic were separated in a Virginia hospital after undergoing a complicated procedure.

Just days after dying after a bout with liver cancer, the family of boxing great Joe Frazier tell BMS the funeral for the late heavyweight will take place in Philly Monday at 11am. Smokin’ Joe’s body will be lying in state at the Wells Fargo Center Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday […]

The unveiling of “The Black List” photo exhibit at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery here in D.C. was an event attended by many of the celebrities represented in the photographs. Roland Martin had the opportunity to talk with some of them about what it meant to see themselves in black and white. Most Popular Articles […]

Check out the first, just-released preview clip of the First Lady’s guest appearance on tween hit iCARLY, which features her seriously breaking it down with star Miranda Cosgrove during the Random Dancing! Mrs Obama will be a guest star in a January episode of the show, which was specially written for her appearance. She used the program to […]

I think we’ve all felt this way at one time or another. Check out this hilarious video, urging women to “take the lace off:” via bossip #SundayFunday w/ @Rodigga: National Quick Weave FLOWS !!! Discrimination? Student Kicked Out for Wearing Blonde Weave! [VIDEO] Most Popular Articles Meek Mill Gets Tattoo On Chest…But It’s Spelled Wrong […]

Child star Kyla Pratt has been off of the scene for a while since her stint on ‘One on One’ with Flex Alexander and now we know why.  During her visit to 106 and Park yesterday evening, she announced that she delivered a baby girl name Lyric Kai Kirkpatrick almost a year ago.  Now, the […]

Tito Jackson, an older brother of late pop superstar Michael Jackson, said Wednesday morning that he and his siblings had attempted “multiple times” to stage interventions to save their brother from what they felt was his addition to prescription drugs. Check out some of the quotes from the interview with Tom Joyner: On Intervention – […]

Common’s latest project, the new AMC series “Hell on Wheels” premiered last weekend. The show is AMC’s new Western series, and Common plays an ex-slave named Elam Ferguson who is working on the transcontinental railroad in Nebraska. In December, Common is expected to release his ninth studio album, “The Dreamer, The Believer”. The actor/rapper was interviewed […]