Football season is right around the corner. September kicks off the 2015 HBCU classics football schedule, with four match-ups being played on Labor Day weekend. These games include the MEAC/SWAC Challenge in Orlando, FL where Arkansas-Pine Bluff University will take on South Carolina State University. Orlando is also the destination for the Tom Joyner Family Reunion, which will be going on at the same time. ...

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Bobby Brown’s wife Alicia Etheredge was rushed to the hospital Saturday after suffering a seizure hours after Bobbi Kristina Brown’s funeral in Alpharetta, Georgia, reports MSN.com. Etheredge was reportedly in a hotel with several family members when she suffered the seizure. As previously reported by NewsOne, Brown and Etheredge married in 2012 after a two-year engagement. Bobbi Kristina famously skipped t ...

Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, the only daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, died Sunday, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub of her home, her family said. Brown has been unresponsive in hospitals and hospice care since she was found in her Roswell, Georgia, home on Jan. 31. Her family said she suffered irreversible brain damage. "She is finally at peace in the arms of ...

Sandra "Sandy" Bland is arrested on University Drive in Waller County, TX. *I am not the original video-grapher but have decided to upload and share this video that I came across on social media, so that the truth to this terrible situation can be found!* My sympathies and condolences to the family and friends who initially wanted privacy. ...

We know them as neighbors. We know them as friends. We know them as people we work with. Now we know them as the cast of “WE…The Passion & Rhythm of the People.”   Created by Broadway Director and Cirque Dreams Founder, Neil Goldberg, “WE” is a Broadway-style show illuminating Broward County’s culture, talent and diversity with awe-inspiring performances, spectacular theatrics and stunning visuals. ...

Fri. 7/3, 8pm | The World Music 5 | JAZZ FUSION – $25/30/35   The World Music 5 consists of multi-Grammy winning violinist Federico Britos, the twice- Grammy nominated Negroni’s Trio (featuring pianist Jose Negroni, drummer Nomar Ne-groni, and bassist Josh Allen), and two-time Latin-Grammy nominated saxophonist Dr. Ed Calle. Their style is a unique repertoire of acoustic music fusing jazz with Afro-Latin Am ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., — A gunman opened fire on a Navy and Marine Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday, leaving four Marines dead, and a recruiter wounded. The gunman was also killed. Officials said during a news conference that gunman had numerous weapons, and the police chief, Fred Fletcher, said that the Marines had been “brutally and brazenly attacked.” Several other people, including a polic ...

Tonight, Abby Wambach presented Caitlyn Jenner with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2015 ESPY Awards. It’s a moment that has been long-awaited by many and an honor that Caitlyn has called “truly special.” It’s the first time that Caitlyn Jenner has stood in front of her peers since her transformation from Bruce Jenner to a woman. Have a look at part one of the tribute above and Jenner’s actual speech i ...

Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Ida B. Wells bought a first-class ticket for the ladies’ compartment on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. When the conductor tried to force her to move to the African-American car, a struggle ensued, during which she allegedly bit the guy’s hand. She fought, she sued, and she won, though Tennessee’s supreme court reversed ...