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Alicia Augello Cook better known as Alicia Keys
What does it mean to be the proprietor of your destiny? If you’re a singer, songwriter, pianist extraordinaire, producer, author, news correspondent,...
Family of woman killed in botched drug raid to receive $4.9 million
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — The city of Atlanta will pay $4.9 million to the family of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman killed in a botched November...
Woman suffocated sons before submerging bodies in car
CNN) — Unemployed, single and apparently fed up with criticism from her mother, a 29-year-old Orangeburg, South Carolina, woman suffocated her two...
Some see red as Essence hires a white editor
Essence, a Time Inc.-owned monthly that is seen as the ultimate fashion and lifestyle title for black women, is wrestling with a controversy sparked by...
Montana Wanted to be A Video Ho Since High School
As far as your girl Chippy D, aka Laurence Fishburne’s daughter Montana is concerned, dear old dad is just gonna have get used to the idea of his little...
12 things men might not know about women
1. “It’s fun to play the damsel in distress sometimes. I love how proud you get when you squash a spider or open that impossible jar.”...
Fear walks the streets of Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) — It was an ethnic twist on an American classic, the kind of thing that some people consider appealing and others frightening....
Lady Gaga went to geek camp, too
(CNN) — Back when Lady Gaga was just a girl from New York named Stefani Germanotta, she might have been seen as a geek. Just as a select group of...
From white or black, the n-word is not OK
By LZ Granderson, Special to CNN (CNN) — I was out roaming the streets of east London with a group of friends back in 2007 when we stumbled across...
North Korea vows merciless counterblow to U.S., South Korea
(CNN) — North Korea said Sunday that it will “deal a merciless counterblow to the U.S. imperialists” and to South Korean “traitors,”...
