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BRONX-Kool DJ Herc, the deejay many credit with founding hip hop music is very ill without health insurance to help him pay his medical bills. DJ Premier of the group Gangstarr said on his Sirius radio show: For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing […]

Atlanta — Martin Luther King III invoked the spirit of his late father as he confirmed his involvement in discussions to purchase a part of the New York Mets. In a late-night statement released to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday, King said that he hoped that the venture, if successful, would increase diversity among the […]

Los Angeles –Sheron Nelson, a 42-year-old Los Angeles man is in custody after allegedly making death threats to a former congresswoman Diane Watson, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

CAIRO — Egyptian opposition groups gathered on Monday for a seventh day in the central Liberation Square, seeking to maintain the momentum of their uprising against President Hosni Mubarak as the army struggled to control a capital seized variously by fears of chaos and euphoria that change may be imminent.  Organizers said they were […]

Etta Moten sings for President Roosevelt at a White House Dinner. It is the first time an African American actress performs at the White House in 1934.

ATLANTA — In his first interview since four young men accused him of sexual misconduct, Bishop Eddie Long spoke to the media about hope and the future. He agreed to answer a few questions following the Trumpet Awards prayer breakfast at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

COLLEGE PARK, Md.– Many young adults of mixed backgrounds are rejecting the color lines that have defined Americans for generations in favor of a much more fluid sense of identity. The crop of students moving through college right now includes the largest group of mixed-race people ever to come of age in the United States, […]

Tonight is the night we can finally see and hear what has been buzzing via twitter and other media outlets about BET’s Celebration of Gospel.  Steve Harvey is back as host with a star-studded roster of artists entertaining and giving us the best music for this year’s event.

Harlem Globetrotters formed in 1927. They are the only sports team to have a star on “Hollywood’s Walk of Fame” and have won more than 22,500 games.

Full gallery of nominees at the bottom The 2011 Trumpet Awards — held today at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta —  honored U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, civil rights leader Al Sharpton, and Radio One CEO Alfred C. Liggins III.* The awards were hosted by husband-and-wife actors Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe, and TV personality […]

American television personality, Oprah Winfrey, whose syndicated daily talk show is among the most popular was born in Kosciusko, Miss in 1954.