Move over, Babe Ruth. Hammerin’ Hank Aaron is set to get the Hollywood treatment with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson attached, according to Variety. The project is based on the Howard Bryant book The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, which details Aaron’s historic chase of Babe Ruth’s home run record from 1972 to 1974.…

In her upcoming memoir, You Have No Idea, singer-actress Vanessa Williams reveals that she was molested by the acquaintance of a family friend when she was just 10 years old. The Huffington Post reports: “She told me to lie down on the rug,” Williams told People. “I was confused. Are we going to play a…

Yes, an African American is serving as commander in chief. But looking for a black U.S. senator? Good luck with that. As CNN reports, the lack of diversity in the Senate is growing more alarming by the day. Out of 100 senators, two are Latino and two are of Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry, but…

The police overtime costs for Whitney Houston’s funeral service are going to cost the residents of Newark, N.J., $187,000. And some taxpayers are none too happy about it, reports CBS New York. Nearly two hundred police officers were on duty as part of crowd control measures at New Baptist Church, where Houston’s service was held,…

When a second-grader at a Sunrise, Fla., elementary school did not have parental consent to participate in a class photo, he was included anyway. But when it was later apparent that his image would have to be removed from the photo and that his placement in the picture made it impossible to digitally do so,…

Blacks and Latinos suffering from mental-health disorders such as depression are less likely to be prescribed antidepressants, according to a new study from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, the Huffington Post reports. According to the study, white patients receive prescription medication 1.5 times more than blacks and Latinos afflicted with major depressive…

Troy Davis was executed last year following his conviction in the 1989 murder of Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. But his death hasn’t deterred his sister Kim Davis from trying to clear his name, in what she believes was a wrongful arrest, conviction and execution, reports CNN. “The fight was bigger than Troy,” she…

Cuba Gooding Jr., the Oscar-winning actor known for screaming, “Show me the money,” is demanding that someone show him the proof, following allegations that he sexually harassed and groped several women in a New Mexico bar in March, reports NewsOne. Gooding, who most recently starred in the film Red Tails, allegedly got overly aggressive with…

The conservative magazine National Review fired columnist and self-professed racist John Derbyshire Saturday, following an uproar over a column in Taki’s Magazine in which he detailed the talk he would have with his children about future encounters with blacks, reports the Huffington Post. Written as a response to the talk that many black fathers across the country…