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He couldn’t go to medical school in New York, so James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree and returned home to treat the city’s poor.

Meet Melissa Petro — the teacher who gives a new twist to “sex ed.”

It’s a story as old as time: adultery, anguish and atonement. Last Tuesday, when news broke of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s extramarital relationship with a blond nightclub hostess — kryptonite in the world of the African-American woman — his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, inserted a little laughter into the public disclosure.

Sorry kids, President Obama wants to extend the school year by a month.

CNN anchor Don Lemon admitted over the weekend that he was a victim of a pedophile as a child. Lemon made the startling announcement on live TV while discussing the scandal involving Georgia Bishop Eddie Long, who is accused of sexually abusing male teenage members of his church. “I have never admitted this on television,” […]

MY homework for an hourlong interview with President Obama last week began with reviews of his earlier speeches and interviews, and conversations with economists and political operatives. It ended around a dinner table. That’s where, over salad and swordfish, former aides to another Democratic president, Bill Clinton, explored principal questions hanging over the coming midterm […]

Gospel star Marvin Sapp took the stage briefly Thursday afternoon at his wife, MaLinda Sapp’s, funeral.

A 19-year-old student has died after a man who was kicked out of a frat party returned with a gun and opened fire, police said today. Jessica Moore died and four others were wounded in the shooting near Seton Hall University in the US. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Ms Moore died overnight […]

Bishop Eddie Long spoke at a press conference to reporters at a 10 a.m. news conference today at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., after a scandal that has resulted from days of allegations that he coerced four young men into sex.