Sounds like Chris Brown needs a break. His rep says “intense fatigue and extreme emotional stress” caused the embattled 24-year-old singer’s seizure August 9, according to Hello Beautiful. “While in the studio working early this morning, Chris suffered a nonepileptic seizure (NES),” his rep confirmed to Us Weekly in a statement. Although the singer was…

CNN’s Don Lemon on Saturday addressed critics of his five suggestions for the African-American community, which created a firestorm of controversy when he presented them two weeks ago. The points, which align closely with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s assessment of the black community, prompted hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons to write several blistering tweets and…

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-show host, hit a new low Friday. He said on his radio program that Oprah Winfrey’s widely publicized encounter with racism at a Swiss boutique was perhaps because the clerk thought she was “fat,” not because she was black, according to Salon. Oprah has said in recent interviews that a clerk…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has a plan to help integrate communities across the nation as housing policies have been ineffective at creating “the kind of communities the agency had hoped for,” according to U.S. News & World Report. Many neighborhoods are racially imbalanced or lean too much toward the rich or…

Bloomberg provides a video tour of the first family’s spectacular $7.6 million Martha’s Vineyard vacation spot. The 4-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot home sits on 9.5 acres, boasts floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the Atlantic Ocean and has an infinity-edge pool. Click here to watch the video. Read more at Bloomberg.

The Washington Post is reporting that on Sunday the State Department plans to reopen 18 of the 19 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa that were closed last week in the wake of terrorist threats.  It said Friday that the embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, would remain closed “because of ongoing concerns…

The Associated Press is reporting that Swiss tourism officials and the owner of an upscale boutique in Zurich issued apologies on Friday to Oprah after a clerk intimated that the media mogul could not afford an expensive handbag. Oprah was in Switzerland to attend Tina Turner’s wedding when the incident occurred. Billionaire media mogul Oprah…

One way to bring about structural change in America after a tragedy like the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is through schools and their curricula, according to The Root’s editor-in-chief, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. He hopes to do just that with The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a six-hour PBS documentary…

A 31-year-old South Florida man, Derek Medina, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Thursday after his wife was fatally shot in the couple’s home, the Associated Press reports. Before his arrest, police say, he left a chilling photo and confession on Facebook. “Im going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife…

A New York City police officer, Richard Haste, involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham last year in the Bronx will not be reindicted by a grand jury, NBC 4 reports. The decision rankled Graham’s family, which led to a demonstration on Thursday of about 100 people, including mayoral candidate William Thompson…