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 […]

When I was in high school, there was this Italian kid that I used to tease all the time because he had just that year in, like, 9th grade discovered that Egypt was in Africa. “You know what that means, don’t you?” I’d say with a leer. “Don’t say it, Byers,” he’d warn. I’d just […]

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.

Today, you have the chance to be in the loop about what’s going on with the new casino project being built at Broadway Commons, downtown. Job creation committee chairman Charlie Winburn, and his committee members will hold a meeting today from 1 pm to 4 to update the casino’s progress and announce the job opportunities available. […]

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.