Nellie Andreeva at Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Fox TV plans to bring back its groundbreaking 1990s sketch comedy series In Living Color with the series’ creator and star, Keenan Ivory Wayans, on board as host and executive producer. Fox apparently has asked Wayans to produce two half-hour specials to air as part of the…

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that police detectives have linked six more slayings to the suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killings after evaluating hundreds of unsolved homicide cases, missing-person reports and a cache of photos of unidentified women uncovered at his home. Law enforcement sources told The Times that the new cases bring…

In an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Harold Ford Jr., former congressman (D-Tenn.) and current Bank of America executive vice chairman, offered President Barack Obama some economic tips. He urged him to dismiss the Occupy Wall Street movement, saying the president and the Democratic Party should look beyond it, according to Think Progress: “Ford…

A $15,000 reward is being offered to help find the killer of Zurana Horton, who died shielding schoolchildren from the gunfire of a rooftop shooter in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reports. The NYPD‘s Crime Stoppers program, the Urban Community Council and 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement joined forces to put up the…

The Associated Press is reporting that a federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Florida’s new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving benefits, saying it may violate the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. Judge Mary Scriven ruled in response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of a 35-year-old…

This weekend, CNN International is airing a two-part series about human-traffickers in Africa, Europe, North and South America and Asia called Not My Life. The good news in this otherwise sad tale is that it tells the story of anti-trackers, who are dedicated to putting those who prey on the vulnerable out of business. CNN…

The New York Times Style Magazine caught up with The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., recently after he interviewed Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker for his new PBS series, Finding Your Roots. Calling Gates “a one-man multimedia industry,” the article featured his views on black history and heritage as well as President Barack Obama. Gates’s…

Most national crime stories start as local ones, until some aspect of the story makes the national media and public take notice. Baby Lisa Irwin’s disappearance in Missouri is grabbing headlines across the country because everyone can feel sympathy for a helpless infant and identify with police suspicions about her parents. So we’re wondering why…