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After winning the 2010 Oscar for best supporting actress, Mo’Nique noted that she was wearing a royal blue dress, along with a gardenia in her hair, because that’s what Hattie McDaniel wore 70 years earlier, when she became the first African American to receive an Academy Award.

FROM SHINE.COM: Our early lives are filled with ceremonial doors to pass through, with the beginning and end of each school year (not to mention semesters and midterms) providing structure and a feeling of progression for the first eighteen years of our lives. Then, without warning, we are thrust into a world with its seemingly […]

Yale University afforded the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T and love Monday, with a short musical tribute and sustained cheering, when she was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree.

BP's chief executive officer said Monday that the company is doing all it can to respond to the runaway oil leak that has been befouling the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month.

Many Christian ministries and churches decide they will give grant writing a shot and see what happens.

It’s funny that this is coming up for discussion.  Certainly, there are many of you out there that have known women to take care of their men or to make more than him.   In my personal experience, at least in the black community, that has been a reality for a long time and I see […]

FROM BLACKDOCTOR.ORG: Eight glasses of water here, five servings of fruits and veggies there – keeping up with all these health rules and regulations can be a pretty huge task. So, it might help you to know that you may be able to toss some of these rules right out the window.

From NYPost.com: The ex-wife of legendary drug kingpin Frank Lucas – whose murderous exploits inspired the controversial movie “American Gangster” — was busted yesterday for allegedly selling two kilos of cocaine to undercover agents in Puerto Rico, The Post has learned. Julianna Farrait, 70, was nabbed inside an unidentified hotel after handing over the drugs […]

From HipHopWired.com: A convicted pimp in New Jersey who identifies himself as “Prince” has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for running a human trafficking and prostitution ring. Allen “Prince” Brown will be in jail till his 60th birthday after pleading guilty to enslaving girls as young as 17 and forcing them to turn […]