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Could your personal pictures of you and your loved ones fall into the wrong hands? 19 Action News exposes the new way your most intimate details including where you live, where your kids go to school, your every move can be taken in seconds and used against you by predators – or worse. Watch our special investigation […]

Just an awful weather situation setting up for us this weekend.  We are dealing with a system that will basically park itself right over Ohio until further notice.  Saturday will feature widespread showers and storms.  It will still be fairly mild but the threat of rain will ruin any plans.  More rain on Sunday as […]

Three teenage girls are hit with criminal charges after they are seen brawling at a park in Bedford in a new video posted online.   Investigators said the 14 and 15-year olds, from both Bedford and bedford Heights, exchanged punches and wrestled on the ground at Taft Park on Wednesday May 11th. Though it was not used, one of the […]

As former rapper Luke Campbell continues on his campaign to become the mayor of Miami, he is unwittingly coming up against cultural tides that will affect the political future of all African-Americans. A recent mayoral debate for candidates in the Miami race was held at the publicly-funded Florida International University — but it was restricted […]

BATON ROUGE, La. — Sisters Network Incorporated, the only national African American breast cancer survivor organization in the country, will kick off its 12th annual National African American Breast Cancer conference today in Baton Rouge. A pioneer in the African American breast cancer awareness movement, Sisters Network hosts the only national conference specifically addressing the devastating […]

WASHINGTON — A few days ago, 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the unpopular position with a crowd of Republicans and defended the healthcare plan he instituted as former Governor of Massachusetts. While many in the crowd didn’t agree with the “success” of his plan, one group in Washington sure does. The White House –  […]

The White House is shoring up its security walls and the rest of the country’s with a new cyber security plan. The plan will cover four key areas that President Obama deems to be weak: the protection of American citizens; the protection of critical infrastructure, such as the power grid and financial sector; the protection […]

Every now and then we all struggle with sleep. For some people sleep is never an issue. They are  usually asleep by midnight and get up at 6 AM with a smile. There is a method to eventually overcome sleepless nights. The following have been helpful to many people to overcome that problem and now […]

Link to video of Dr. Boyce Watkins and Rev. Al Sharpton speaking about this controversial case Three years ago, Georgia Pastor Onslow Ross was sentenced to 10 years in prison and found guilty of 54 counts of bank fraud, money laundering and various other illegal transactions. Many of his supporters not only felt that the […]

NEW YORK– Actor Clifton Powell went on a tirade about Spike Lee, admitting he didn’t like the director over his treatment of black actors, called him a punk, and said he would “whoop his a**”, while a guest on the Russ Parr Morning Show.

CHICAGO, Ill. — A federal appeals court has ruled the City of Chicago must hire more than 100 African-American firefighters to compensate for past hiring discrimination. myfoxChicago.com reports: The ruling is the latest development in a fight over the department’s 1995 entrance exam. Thousands of people sued the city, saying the test favored white applicants. […]

A few days ago boxer Bernard Hopkins unleashed comments questioning the “Blackness” of his former hometown quarterback Donovan McNabb formerly of the Philadelphia Eagles. McNabb, who now plays for the Washington Washington Football Team, has been criticized by Hopkins before and has now decided to allow his agent to respond for him. “It perpetuates a […]