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Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan is going to be a father again, according to celebrity magazine US Weekly.   A due date was not reported. Jordan, 50, and Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto, 34, married in April after a five-year courtship. This is their first child, and they live near Miami.  Jordan has three adult children…

Since Hillary R. Clinton left the secretary of state post in February, she and her husband have been quietly working to improve their relationship with African-American voters, after it endured hardship during her first run for president, the New York Times reports. The effort comes five years after Bill Clinton inflamed tensions and created deep…

Paul Walker, star of the wildly popular Fast & Furious films, died Saturday in a fiery crash in Southern California. He was 40 years old. His publicist, Ame van Iden, confirmed his death, but would not elaborate beyond statements posted on Walker’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts. He was a passenger in a friend’s 2005 Porsche Carrera GT,…

With politicians, public health experts and epidemiologists announcing that the United States is at the beginning of ending the AIDS epidemic and that we will soon usher in an AIDS-free generation of youths, each World AIDS Day, on Dec. 1, takes on increasingly special significance, especially for African Americans. Because the nation’s HIV/AIDS epidemic is…

Have you ever felt a twinge of mistrust as you handed your credit card to a restaurant server? How about the grocery clerk? No worries. They probably feel the same about you. A new poll shows that Americans’ trust in each other has been on the decline for about four decades, the Associated Press reports.…

Dozens of protesters were arrested at demonstrations around the country on Black Friday as some workers and their supporters tried to shine the spotlight on low wages at the world’s largest retailer, NBC News reports. The protesters want Wal-Mart to raise wages by 42 percent from $8.81 an hour to $12.50 an hour, which would…

What will the president’s opponents think of next? Controversial birther preacher the Rev. James David Manning is peddling a new and wild conspiracy theory, claiming that President Barack Obama fathered a child with the woman who this fall was fatally shot outside the White House. Manning, pastor of Atlah World Missionary Church, asserts that the…

Residents and leaders of parts of New York City’s Brooklyn community on Friday held a rally to denounce the so-called “knockout game,” a violent trend in which youths punch unwary victims as they walk down the street, CBS New York reports. “We are stressed out, but we refuse to be knocked out in our community,”…

If Sasha Obama suffers from “youngest child syndrome,” it will likely be dampened in 2016 when the first family turns to her for an important decision. President Barack Obama said she would be one of the deciding factors in where the family lands after leaving the White House. At that time, she will be a…