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Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. The government has offered to buy his parents a car if he stops, but they claim he gets too angry without smokes.

The recent rumors of a personal relationship between Mathew Knowles and Juanita Bynum are false.   Their relationship is strictly professional.

Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie,and Tom Cruise all have one thing in common. They have all adopted black children. Now the question is, could you adopt out of your race?

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Rituals bring shape and connection to our days beyond the confines of the work week. Meg Cox, author of New Family Traditions: How to Create Great Rituals for Holidays and Everyday, recommends “simple, heartfelt rituals that work for the way people actually live right here, right now.

Police said they have made two arrests four months after a mother was found stabbed to death at her home in Conyers, GA.

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.