An Austin, Texas, teenager who died on Christmas Day of a heart attack and was a huge fan of Kid Cudi touched the heart of the rapper, according to the Dailly News. Ben Breedlove, 18, posted two videos on YouTube shortly before his death. In the videos, Breedlove silently told his story through a series…

Republicans and Democrats can’t seem to take a break from taking shots at each other, even during the holidays. Former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney recently called President Obama a modern-day Marie Antoinette. She was the queen who was overthrown during the French Revolution. “When the president’s characterization of our economy was,…

The argument made by many conservatives that the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine promotes sexual promiscuity or other risky sexual behavior in young women has been shot down, according to one study. A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that young girls and women who were given the vaccine were more…

A report released by the Center for the American Electorate Wednesday highlighted that voters under 30 will turn out in much smaller numbers. Curtis Gans, the director of the Washington-based center, said that the hope President Obama inspired among young voters in 2008 has dissipated in the last three years. “Because Obama the president did…

Commentator Robert Reich, who was secretary of labor in Bill Clinton’s administration, is predicting that President Obama will dump Vice President Joe Biden and replace him with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. The move, which was mentioned as a possibility earlier this year, is bubbling to the surface again…

Atlanta’s New Birth Christian Academy students are now scrambling for a new place in which to learn after they were informed that their school will be shut down Jan. 4. The school, founded by the controversial Bishop Eddie Long, fell short of funding estimates and enrollment for the year. The school board sent a letter…

Add the story of a San Francisco man to the many accounts of people across the country suffering because they lack health insurance. Thirty-two-year-old Elisha Harris lost sight in his left eye entirely five months ago. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 12 years old, Harris said he didn’t take his condition seriously…

A video entitled “Shit Black Women Say” has become a YouTube sensation while at the same time enraging many African-American women. The video, directed by Brooklyn, N.Y., director Elijah Griffin, has already garnered close to a million views. But let’s just say that those 1 million viewers may not all be fans of Griffin’s video.…

Earlier this week, Will Smith posted a picture on Facebook of a reunion that The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air cast members had in November. One person missing from those photos was 55-year-old Janet Hubert, who played Aunt Vivian on the show. Now we know why she was absent from that event. Fifteen years after the…

Newt Gingrich’s marriage history has been a frequent point of attack for rival GOP presidential contenders. Now court documents obtained by CNN show that Gingrich’s claim that his then-wife, Jackie Gingrich, divorced him was a lie. On July 14, 1980, a divorce complaint was filed by Gingrich that said, “the marriage of the parties is…