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When Roz Abrams started out in the early 1980s as a young broadcast journalist, she was mentored by the likes of pioneer Belva Davis, the first black television and radio journalist on the West Coast. As a result, Abrams went on to scale great heights in the broadcast field, including working at CNN as a…

Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Thomas Jackson on Thursday issued a videotaped apology to the family of Michael Brown, and the community of Ferguson, but the olive branch he extended was not received well by some people who still feel not much has been done to address the fatal shooting of Brown, the New York Times…

It’s official: Scandal is baaaack! We knew Olivia wouldn’t be able to stay away from her job, the gladiators and certainly not Fitz, but Scandal-heads were surprised at just how quickly she returned to the fray. Duty calls. Season 4 kicks off with Olivia and Jake canoodling on an island 100 miles off the coast of…

Two years ago, Pittsburgh native Mileek Grissom, 23, was shot and rushed to UPMC Mercy hospital. After learning of the shooting, Grissom’s stepfather, the Rev. Earl Baldwin Jr., was the first of his family to arrive at the hospital, and even though doctors had not yet said so, Baldwin says he knew Grissom was already…

It’s not quite reparations, but the U.S. government has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the country, $554 million as part of a settlement stemming from 50-year-old claims in a lawsuit, the BBC is reporting.   The Navajo Nation leases approximately 14 million acres of its land to the U.S. government…

Two children—a 9-month-old baby and a 21-month-old toddler—died from injuries they suffered in a fire at a house in Lynchburg, Va., that was being used to operate an unlicensed day care center, the News & Advance reports. At the time of last Friday’s fire, seven children were in the care of Doris Lee, who operated…

Is it polite for a man to ask a lady to trim herself “down there”? She really likes me to give her oral, but it’s difficult with so much growth. I’ve hinted about it, but she never seems to get it, and I’m considering the direct approach. Just don’t want to offend her, but I…

Swathed in a sexy, brick red, butter-leather jacket and dangling earrings, with a dash of cleave and coiffed in a short haircut borrowed from the files and styles of RiRi—clearly appropriate for after-5 shenanigans—Viola Davis is worlds away from the more modest stylings of such roles as Aibileen in The Help and even the early parts of her portrayal…