The origin of funk music is often credited to Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown, and a host of other musicians who brought the stylistic groove to ...

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Historically black colleges and universities such as Howard University in Washington DC, Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, and Florida A&M...

Source: JIJI PRESS / Getty This is so sad, and the deadliest fire in two decades for Japan. According to AP News , a man screaming “You ...

Fans can’t wait to see Kierra Sheard play her mother, Karen Clark Sheard in the upcoming biopic of “ T he Clark Sisters” about the amazi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Biden, the early Democratic presidential front-runner, was at a soul food restaurant in Los Angeles on Thursday when...

Carl Robinson , 43, was seeking election to the Mississippi House of Representatives. However, shortly after being served divorce papers, he...

Source: Disney / Disney No one does visuals like Beyonce . Then again, no one is Beyonce. The Lion King star who lends her voice to Nala...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Paul Stevens , the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supre...

Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California is one of the best-known members of the U.S. House of Representatives, earning notoriety as the fir...

Annnnd the  Barney Fife award goes to … the idiot white security guard in Ohio who was caught on surveillance video pulling a gun on a Blac...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A white Indiana police officer who fatally shot a black man, sparking protests and roiling the presidential campaign...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl with a small social media following in upstate New York was killed by a man she’d met recently on Ins...

CHICAGO (AP) — Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti said Monday that R&B singer R. Kelly paid $2 million to keep the alleged victim in a...

Source: Nia Noelle / Nia Noelle A pastor in Florida is thanking God that a robbery didn’t turn deadly inside his church. According to t...

Longtime TJMS contributor Huggy Lowdown can’t handle that Tom Joyner is retiring after all of these years. What’s Huggy going to do now?...

Source: Ron Adar / Getty BET Founder Bob Johnson has praised y’all President again, saying his economic policies are “doing great.” In ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An 18-year-old Kansas man has been charged in the April attack that wounded New York Giants draft pick Corey Ballentine ...

Another day, another example of Black women’s bodies being policed. Case in point: A Black doctor claims an American Airlines flight atten...