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Passengers landing at five U.S. airports who come from any of the three West African nations most affected by the Ebola outbreak—Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea—will have their temperatures taken as a way to screen for the virus, the New York Times reports. The screenings, which will begin as early as this weekend, will take place…

The images of the African-American women seen on Aunt Jemima pancake boxes through the years go hand in hand with the brand in more ways than one, and that’s why the brand’s current owner is being sued for royalties in a lawsuit filed on behalf of descendants of two Aunt Jemima models, USA Today reports. Descendants…

Protests erupted and Twitter was ablaze after early reports from St. Louis had an off-duty police officer involved in the fatal shooting of a teenager in south St. Louis Wednesday night. Conflicting reports have emerged since the shooting, but police claim that the teen was armed and fired at least three shots at the officer…

Everyone’s fitness journey has a different starting point. Some people want to lose weight to look good in clothes, some are getting ready for an upcoming event, and others may want to look and feel stronger. Larry Evans, 38, decided to lose weight because he wanted to keep living. As the father of a 16-year-old…

Kristin McCovery says she was about to end a date with a fellow Howard University student on a January night three years ago when things suddenly took a wrong turn. After having consensual sex, the man wasn’t ready for her to leave his dorm room. He pushed her back onto the bed, where she hit…

More than a decade ago, Zane, then an unknown suburban mother of three, changed the literary landscape when she self-published her first novel, Addicted. It was the deliciously freaky (and fictional) tale of a woman in similar circumstances, a mom of three, but this one had an insatiable appetite for sex—with three men other than…