The woman who toppled one-time presidential candidate John Edwards’ marriage and presidential dreams went on The Oprah Show and tried to play all innocent. Didn’t fly with Oprah.

President Barack Obama will give the eulogy Thursday at the funeral of civil rights leader Dorothy Height. Height’s funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET tomorrow at Washington National Cathedral. On Tuesday, hundreds of people lined three city blocks to pay respects at her viewing at the National Council of Negro Women, [...]

Nelson Mandela plans to skip the opening ceremony of the football World Cup finals in South Africa in June and will watch the tournament from home, his grandson says. FIFA organizers had hoped he would make a rare public appearance to grace the first world soccer finals on African soil, which begin on June [...]

In his effort to make sure the people who need federal funds most get them, Ludacris has been visiting communities in Dallas, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana, Washington, D.C. and New York to spread the word about the importance of the 2010 Census. Still nothing quite compares to how he made his quest a personal one [...]

On March 3, however, Hagan was granted parole, according to the State Division of Parole. His final release date is tentatively scheduled for April 28. Hagan, who turned 69 in jail on Tuesday, was a member of the Nation of Islam on Feb. 21, 1965, when Malcolm X was shot while giving a speech [...]

Almost two years after the historical election, the Obama haters are still in full effect. The Arizona House voted for a prerequisite that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate, in order to appear on the state’s ballot in the event he runs for reelection. The new provision, which will [...]

We all know that President Obama has a funny side to himself, but, Thursday night he was in rare form at a fundraiser in Miami where he made sure that he wasn’t the brunt of anyone’s jokes rather he sent a humorous message to those in the Tea Party that don’t have the decency to [...]

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on Thursday reported earning $5.5 million in 2009, the bulk of it from sales of his various books. By contrast, former President Bush and Laura Bush reported a taxable income of $719,274 in 2007. The Obamas paid nearly $1.8 million in federal income tax and reported [...]

Actor Danny Glover and 11 others were arrested during a labor union protest at the Maryland headquarters of food service company Sodexo. Glover and others walked past yellow police tape and were asked to step back three times. When they refused, Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks says officers arrested them. [...]

President Barack Obama met with 20 Black religious leaders on Tuesday to discuss the major issues afflicting African Americans across the nation. While critics scrutinize and question whether or not the president has helped African Americans during this tough economic climate, the ministers prayed for his strength, wisdom and courage. They also challenged the president [...]

Benjamin Hooks the longtime Civil rights leader and the former executive director of the NAACP has died. State Rep. Ulysses Jones who was a member of the church where Hooks was pastor, told news outlets that leader died early Thursday at his home, following a long illness. He was awarded the Presidential [...]

The mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed is putting his foot down on parties planning to take over the city this weekend for Freaknik. While the mayor says he won’t shut down the events altogether he’s warning the Black college students planning on invading the city that police will be out in full force. [...]

On Wednesday, April 14th, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee (MXCC) and a host of other supporting forces hosted a joint press conference condemning the pending release of Talmadge Hayer, a confessed assassin of Malcolm X. The press conference took place at the Shabazz Center, which happens to be the remodeled Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm [...]

Adam Clayton Powell IV announced Monday he would seek the House seat that his famous father once held and challenge veteran Rep. Charles Rangel, who stepped down last month as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee amid ethics charges.

Powell, 47, said he honored Rangel’s 40 years of service but that it was [...]

Ilyasah Shabazz, a daughter of the late Malcolm X, has agreed to write a forward to three chapters omitted from her father’s original book “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”. The “lost” pages were recently discovered by Detroit attorney Gregory Reed who acquired them at auction from the estate of “Roots” author Alex Haley, who [...]

Judge Greg Mathis had a huge 50th birthday party Saturday night with friends and family at Warner Bros. studio lot in L.A. Guests included guest DJ Spinderella, Mekhi Phifer, Wesley Snipes, Tatyana and Anastasia Ali, Heavy-D, Johnny Gill, a tipsy Wendy Raquel Robinson, Sam Jackson and wife, Magic Johnson and Cookie, and many others.

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One of New Jersey’s longest serving former mayors got a hero’s welcome Tuesday, stepping off a Greyhound bus in Newark and blowing kisses to a throng of cheering supporters before being driven to a halfway house where he’ll serve out the remainder of a federal prison sentence on corruption charges. “It’s good to be [...]

A leader of white supremacists in South Africa was bludgeoned to death Saturday leading some of his followers to call his death a “declaration of war.” 69-year-old Eugene Terreblanche, the longtime leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement was killed by two of his workers in what’s being described as “a dispute of wages.” [...]

Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti non-profit organization is receiving praise for raising almost $10 million dollars in donations since an earthquake struck the country in January. According to recent reports, Yele has raised a total of $9,139,324 in donations since a 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-Au-Prince, leaving over millions dead and million more wounded and displaced. [...]

The infamous C-SPAN caller who complained that too many black people are being featured on the network was comedic fodder for Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Daily Show.” In the segment, titled “Fear of a Black C-SPANet,” host Jon Stewart not only made fun of the caller – who said the network’s name should be [...]