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  • Lil Wayne Says Seizures Are 'Typical Me'

    According to Lil Wayne, his recent health scare was overblown, because he’s had a number of seizures in the past, reports the Daily News.  “This wasn’t my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh … I have had a bunch of seizures, you just never hear about them,” he reveals on his medical condition in…

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  • Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Madiba Is 'Doing Well'

    Nelson Mandela is doing better, according to South African President Jacob Zuma, reports BBC News. Mandela, 94, re-entered a hospital for the third time in four months earlier this week for a lung infection. It said Mr Mandela had developed a pleural effusion – excess fluid in the lungs which had been drained to enable…

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  • Are You Ready to Learn About Brian McKnight?

    (The Root) — Brian McKnight is not the romantic love-song writer many people might expect. The silky-voiced singer-songwriter behind hits like “One Last Cry” and “Anytime” is also the same man behind 2012’s viral “adult” song “If You’re Ready to Learn.” McKnight said the lyrics to the shocker instructing a woman on how her “p—sy…

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  • MHP: Why 'Stop and Frisk' Is a National Problem

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  • Kimani Gray's Funeral Attracts Supporters

    The funeral for Kimani Gray, the 16-year-old who was fatally shot by New York police officers on March 9, was held on Saturday, reports the Huffington Post. The teen’s funeral, at a Roman Catholic church not far from where he was killed, drew relatives, friends, and many mourners who had no connection to the teen…

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  • Bebo Valdés, Afro Cuban Music Pioneer, Dead at 94

    Afro Cuban pianist, composer and pioneer Bebo Valdés passed away on Friday, March 22. He was 94, reports Billboard. His career took him from behind the piano at Havana’s famed Tropicana club to a hotel lounge in Stockholm, where he played for a living for twenty-five years, before returning to recording and touring when he…

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  • Radio Host Michael Baisden Locked Out of Studio?

    Renegotiating contracts can be a tumultuous affair. That’s what syndicated radio host Michael Baisden learned after he and his staff were locked out of their radio studio, owned by Cumulus Media, this week, reports Politic365. According to a statement released by his publicist, Baisden, who “commands a daily audience of over seven million listeners,” states…

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  • 2 Teens Arrested for Shooting Baby in Georgia

    A Brunswick, Ga., woman is mourning her 13-month-old son after he was shot during a robbery on Thursday, reports NBC News. Two teen suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting on Friday. The mother, Sherry West, told FOX affiliate WAWS-TV that she was pushing her 13-month-old son, Antonio, in his stroller in Brunswick, Ga.,…

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  • Obama Negotiates Apology From Israel to Turkey

    During his Middle Eastern diplomatic trip, President Obama facilitated a historic conversation between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, reports CNN. Just before departing for Jordan on Friday, Obama scored a diplomatic coup when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey for a 2010 commando raid that killed nine activists…

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  • Toni Morrison Speaks Against Iraq War and Vet Suicides

    Toni Morrison visited West Point on Friday where she read from her latest novel, Home, The book is the story of a black man named Frank Money, a Korean War veteran trying to re-assimilate into American society while struggling with PTSD, reports the New York Times. In a telephone interview beforehand, she explained that she…

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