UPDATE: Powerball Jackpot winner Pedro Quezada has paid child support payments dating back to 2009. Quezada told a New Jersey judge Monday that his…

94-year-old former South African President Nelson Mandela is in the hospital due to a lung infection. Mandela has been treated for lung ailments before, when…

Theodore DeReeese “Teddy” Pendergrass was born on March 26, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an R&B singer, songwriter, drummer and ordained minister. Pendergrass was…

    This is a great day to be alive, in spite of what it looks and feels like today. Feelings are fickle and liable…

    Here is a reminder from me to you, don’t forget to set your clocks forward one hour and change the batteries in your smoke…

Speaker of the House, John Boehner explains his point of view on how there will  not be  no more tax hikes in order to deal with…

  Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of eight children born to Louise and Earl Little.  Malcolm is…

Dr. Dorothy Height was considered the “grande dame” of the civil rights era.  She was an American administrator, educator, and social activist.  She also served…

Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on August 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. She was an American vocalist and was known as “First Lady of…

Barbara Johns, a sixteen year old student, staged a strike at Robert Russa Moton High School because of its deplorable conditions. One student John Stokes…

  Another shooting has shaken residents on the Southside of Chicago.  King College Prep School sophomore 15 year old Hadiya Pendleton was gunned down as she…

     Leroy” Sugarfoot” Bonner is dead at the age of 69. The 70′s funk band frontman and guitarist died Sunday of cancer. “Sugarfoot” was the…