A group of progressive Muslim-Americans plans to build an Islamic community center two and a half blocks from ground zero in lower Manhattan. They have had a mosque in the same neighborhood for many years. There’s another mosque two blocks away from the site. City officials support the project. Muslims have been praying at the […]

All too often we see celebrities, politicians, and corporations make tragic mistakes which offend or harm the people within the Black community.

German singer Nadja Benaissa was charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a man who contracted H.I.V. after having unprotected sex with her admitted in court on Monday that she had concealed the fact that she was infected with the virus from the man, and from two other sexual partners.

OAKWOOD VILLAGE (WOIO) – A nasty wreck on Interstate 271 northbound is tying up traffic in that area.

ELYRIA, Ohio – A man from Elyria was arrested and charged with driving a dump truck while intoxicated over the weekend near the Midway Mall.

In 2001, former Surgeon General David Satcher called the prevalence of overweight and obesity in America a crisis of “epidemic proportions.” At this time, the rates of childhood obesity had tripled since 1970, and some experts predicted, for the first time in history, that children would have shorter life spans than their parents.

South Carolina Senate nominee Alvin Greene (D) insisted that he will remain in the race in an odd interview published Saturday.

En-Lieu of recent criticism of President Obama’s decision to allow the building of Mosque near Ground-Zero, President Obama clarifies his stance on allowing a Mosque to be built near Ground-Zero.

Heat Forward Udonis Haslem, arrested over the weekend and charged with drug possession, has bonded out. He faces felony drug charges after state police found marijuana in his car during a traffic stop Aug. 15.

Strip-club owner Tommy George rolled up to the church in his grabber-orange Dodge Challenger, drinking a Mountain Dew at 9 in the morning and smoking a cigarette he had just rolled himself. Pastor Bill Dunfee stepped out of a tan Nissan Murano, clutching a Bible in one hand and his sermon in the other, a touch […]

Dashawn Longfellow, a former U.S. Marine, was in Thailand for vacation and to study Muay Thai, or Thai boxing – and that may have been what got him killed, according to Thai police.