photo: Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer Campus International School students participate in morning stretching exercises Thursday. From left are Nyja Grays, Dion Sorrells, Greyson Hankins and Isaiah Payne. story : Thomas Ott, The Plain Dealer A new Cleveland school opened Thursday, easing its first students into a program that will supplement the basics with Mandarin […]

Excerpt from Acts of Faith by Iyanla Vanzant A friend is a person who dislikes the same people you do. – Anonymous Don’t hang out with people who are where you don’t want to be.  Your friends and the environment reflect what you really feel about yourself.  Winners hang out with winners. Losers hang out […]

  With the recent poll released that 1 in 5 Americans feel President Obama is Muslim; and the various signs and racial epithets we’ve heard directed at him at Tea Party rallies; have you ever heard anything racial from your co-workers or just walking around from people in regards to President Obama? RELATED: Have You Encountered […]

  Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative, picked up the support Thursday of a national organization that represents African American police officers, as the campaign for legalization continues to try to build support in the black community and among law enforcement officials. The National Black Police Assn., which has about 15,000 members, is the second […]

Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department employee forced to resign after an edited video clip gave the false impression that she had discriminated against a white farmer, is coming to Washington next week to meet with USDA officials to discuss the job they offered her in the wake of the scandal.

Antonio Cromartie is known for many things: freakish athleticism, a disappointing NFL career after an impressive start, some off-field issues, money problems, and perhaps most notably, a boatload of children (seven kids, five paternity suits).

A New York-bound American Airlines jet was grounded on the runway in San Francisco Thursday after officials received a phoned-in threat of a hijacking.

  The White House insisted on Thursday that President Barack Obama is a Christian who prays daily as it looked to tamp down growing doubts among Americans about the president’s religion.

An NYPD officer who opened fire during a Harlem melee told fellow cops a suspect who ended up with 23 bullet wounds shot first.

A school bus mistakenly dropped a 5-year-old Nashville, Tennessee boy off at his home on Tuesday, causing the child to attempt a dangerous eight-mile walk.

Jennifer Hudson is making her rounds and this stop was the cover for Michigan Avenue magazine based out of… Chicago!!! Jennifer can’t stop talking about her new body and actually she admits to not feeling any different until she sees a picture of herself… Lately it seems like she’s everywhere, thanks to the high-profile Weight […]

  He was an accomplished athlete with a promising future, but a gunshot ended it all. A young man was killed while leaving a club in Detroit; gunned down over a pair of glasses.