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At 83 years of age, actress Marla Gibbs is still going strong. She has a career that has included television, movies and live performances. Best known as the feisty, quick-witted Florence Johnston on

Legendary soul singer and O’Jay’s singer, Eddie Levert has had the types of career ups that anybody in the music business would love to have:… Read more http://blackdoctor.org/444949/eddie-levert-

Sooo…when I first read that Disney star Zendaya Coleman was cast as Aaliyah in the biopic “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B,” I went into one of those self-righteous Black power rants about Zendaya not being

Father’s Day was a joyous occasion for many families yesterday, including Bobby Brown who reunited with his daughter Bobbi Kristina. If you haven’t been keeping up with the Houstons (who are we kiddin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shire Plc has agreed to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration request to study its stimulant Vyvanse in preschool children as concern rises over the diagnosis and treatment of att

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — The number of whooping cough cases in the Southland and throughout California has reached epidemic proportions, state health officials said Friday. The California Departm

NurseTogether has confirmed that 24 states are part of the compact state nurse licensure (NLC). Nurse Compact State License http://www.nursetogether.com/nurse-licensure-applications--fees-by-state

We salute Deanna Jordan, a single mother of three who graduated from UCLA with three degrees on Friday! “I needed for my sons to see there was a legacy that preceded them with college. I am the first

Actress and singer Audra McDonald made history during the 2014 Tony Awards when she won her sixth Tony for her leading role as Bille Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”. In her moving accep

It's sad whenever I see any black woman in business fail or start to wane because sometimes it is through no fault of her own. It happens daily, I'm sure all around the world or just in this country b

This morning, during my routine perusal of the Internet, I came across an article about Katy Perry’s Prismatic tour. Folks were all in their feelings about Perry’s dancers, who looked like caricatures

Meriam Ibrahim is not sentenced to die for her Christian faith for two years, until such a time as her newborn baby girl Maya is weaned, but she could be flogged within days if her appeal of her death

Miracle baby, three months later: She is happy, healthy and loved. Robin Cyr’s fourth child has already packed a lifetime’s worth of emotional turmoil into her first 28 minutes in the world. Cyr, 34,

(Washington, DC) The family of Jahi McMath is posting on social media, asking supporters to contact her charter school to ask them to grant the eighth-grader a diploma this week. Jahi, diagnosed as b

In a case that is beginning to resemble the battle over Terri Schiavo, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel S. Murphy ruled that the daughter of radio announcer Casey Kasum can starve and dehydrate

Halle Berry is going to need the paycheck she's getting from her upcoming TV series Extant. The Oscar-winning actress has been ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay $16,000 a month in child support to

Join Our Family and Ask the FTC to Help Stop Advertising Hurting Our Kids Every parent thinks their children are perfect and my wife and I are no different. We want our eight year-old daughter and seven year-old son to grow up knowing they’re beautiful just the way they are. But every day our mes

(June 9, 2014). Public school students in two more states will no longer have to conform to Common Standards. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a law that will replace the national initiative wi

(Newsmax.com) While Congress can’t seem to reach a consensus on how to tackle immigration reform, American voters are not waffling. A poll conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institu

Maya Angelou’s friends and family gathered to celebrate her life at Wake Forest University in North Carolina today. Former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama paid tribute to the acclaimed author and poet, but it was Oprah Winfrey’s moving words that brought many at the memorial ser

Meagan Good has expressed interest in playing Whitney Houston in her upcoming biopic, however producers chose Yaya DaCosta for the job. According to sources, the model-turned-actress has been cast to play the legendary singer in her forthcoming Lifetime movie directed by Angela Bassett. As we repor

Who videos an abortion or takes selfies of themselves before an abortion? Click on the link or click on actual blog pic to see lady taking photo of herself and GET this in WHITE Pants. Have American

ABORTION What Abortion Selfies Tell Us About American Community Real communities are about more than just comments, likes, and favorites. By Ben Domenech (MAY 8, 2014) You have by this point likely heard about the story of New Jersey abortion counselor Emily Letts’ decision to film her surgic

JUNE 4, 2014. How can a government claim to derive its powers “from the consent of the governed” when it deliberately deceives the people whose consent it supposedly requires? The case of a Connecticu

(The Insider) It's hard to imagine that it would be difficult to find a dress designer for an Oscar nominee, but that was the case for Melissa McCarthy back in 2012. McCarthy, who was nominated for Be