Ledisi recently was a musical guest on “The Tonight Show,” and she sang “Bravo.” Take a look at her outstanding performance in the video below!

HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa (AP) — Johnson Mncube remembers the first day at Oprah Winfrey’s boarding school for underprivileged South African girls, when 11- and 12-year-olds…

A small northern Illinois town has a proactive new plan it hopes will attract new homeowners to build: $10,000 in cold, hard cash. Yorkville, Ill., a Kendall County city with a population of just more than 6,000, narrowly approved the plan, aimed at stimulating development on the city’s almost 9,000 vacant lots, during a City Council […]

Long before “The Wire” and “LUTHER”  Idris Elba was an underground DJ back in the U.K.  Even though he’s now one of the hottest stars in Hollywood, his love for the wheels of steel hasn’t taken a back seat to his thriving acting career.  In a recent trip back home, Elba reunited with his DJ […]

Imagine this…You do some research into your family tree and discover that your uncle, who was born nearly 30 years after slavery, was one of thousands of black men pulled back into a forced labor system in which they were arrested – largely on trumped up charges – and compelled to work without pay as […]

Every year Forbes puts out a list of the top celebrity earners of the year.  What’s even more fascinating about reading through these lists of millionaires, is looking at their ages!  Fame favors the young, and if you doubt that, just take a look at the singers, movie stars and athletes on Forbes annual list […]

via CNN A controversial quote inscribed in the granite of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall will be corrected, an official at the Interior Department confirmed to CNN. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has given the National Park Service 30 days to consult with the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project […]