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Solar panels and a solar hot water heater will soon be installed at the White House, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday.

A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York’s busy Times Square was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison.

The spate of foreclosures that led to the housing crisis was triggered by predatory lenders targeting poor minority neighborhoods, according to a new study cited by Reuters.

As we dive into the last days of 2010 and gear up for the holidays, finding ways to boost and maintain our energy is important.  This is the time when we need to go hard and get everything done before the new year begins.  The grind never stops however being smart and having a plan […]

Pregnancy isn’t slowing Alicia Keys down. The singer, who is due to give birth to her first child with husband Swizz Beatz later this fall, planned, hosted and performed at the seventh annual Black Ball for her Keep a Child Alive foundation in New York on Thursday night. A glowing Keys, who co-founded the organization […]

CNN Editors note: Bishop T.D. Jakes is a best-selling author and senior pastor of a 30,000-member church, The Potter’s House. As a faith leader, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, I’ve always had one foot in both the practical and the spiritual worlds. Prayer is good, but you also have to be able to manage your checkbook. As […]

African Americans replace reluctant whites on the field of battle due to rising white desertions in the Continental Army (1777). Monroe Baker, a well-to-do Black businessman, named mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana (1867). He was probably the first Black to serve as mayor of a town. First Reconstruction legislature met in Richmond, Virginia (1869). Booker […]

According to a recent Gallup poll, overall, Barack Obama’s approval rating is currently 45 percent but among non-Hispanic blacks it’s 91 percent. What does this poll tells us about the president’s appeal?

A Gainesville man shot six people and then killed himself in an east Gainesville shooting spree on Monday. One victim was killed and the other five were in surgery as of Monday night, police said in a press conference. The suspect is Clifford L. Miller Jr., 24, who was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound […]