Philadelphia officials are pushing back against a Thursday Common Pleas Court ruling that would require the city and the School District to pa…
The fate of Hahnemann University Hospital was scheduled to be decided Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington. But lawyers for Philadelp…
As temperatures soar to red-alert levels and Philadelphia officials invite residents to cool off in air-conditioned city buildings, Maryland l…
PHILADELPHIA — A man scaled several floors down the side of a 19-story building in Philadelphia to escape a fire that injured four residents a…
Heavy rains and high temperatures shifted the lid of a 6 million gallon tank containing gasoline components at the Philadelphia Energy Solutio…
A new anti-gun violence program in Philadelphia aims to reduce the flood of firearms on city streets by targeting those who play an outsized r…
WINDSOR MILL, MD — Every so often you can find Artis Holt, Sr. and his grandson Paris at a park -- and on the jungle gym.
CINCINNATI — On a drizzly morning last summer, Patricia Jackson opened her door to two strangers. They told her they had come on behalf of a m…
American rapper A$AP Rocky will remain in prison for another week to allow prosecutors to finish their investigation into an assault that took…
AKRON, Ohio — Former Ohio State and NFL player Beanie Wells is offering a $5,000 reward for the capture of the person who gunned down his brother.
CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Board on Thursday fired four police officers for allegedly covering up a white officer’s 2014 fatal shooting of B…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first Black student to enroll at an all-white medical school in the South and later the first fe…
Parry Gripp acknowledges that his 2012 hit, “Raining Tacos,” can be obnoxious. He wrote the song with a specific audience in mind: “children a…
BOSTON — An Arizona man authorities say threatened to bomb Harvard University and shoot people who attended a Black commencement has been sent…
HOUSTON — The U.S. government on Friday expanded its requirement that asylum seekers wait outside the country to a part of the Texas Rio Grand…
LONDON — Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker Friday and briefly detained a second vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, intensifying tensions …
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on a Somali-born congresswoman Friday while reversing his previous criticisms of a Nor…
The suspect at the center of Japan’s worst mass killing in almost 20 years told police that his work was plagiarized and that he used gasoline…
Iran’s most revered Revolutionary Guard commander says talking with President Donald Trump would be admitting defeat. The country’s supreme le…
JOHANNESBURG — Former South African president Jacob Zuma on Friday abandoned his testimony to a state commission probing graft allegations aga…
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Donald Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, was born in Kallstadt, Germany, and emigrated to the United States as a teenager. (According to o…
This week has cemented President Donald Trump’s reputation as America’s “racist in chief.”
One can only venture a guess how President Donald Trump’s xenophobic tweets directed at four freshman congresswomen of color over the weekend …
President Donald Trump has injected race into his criticism of liberal Democrats.
If you ever have visitors come to town and want them to capture the true essence of fun in Philly, just take them to a concert at the Dell Mus…
Since its inception in 2016, the Jazz Legacy Awards, created by Sen. Vincent Hughes and his wife, Tony-nominated actress, Sheryl Lee Ralph, ha…
In March 2017, Karl Lagerfeld, perhaps the greatest master of the viral social media moment a fashion show had ever seen, docked a rocket ship…
The most famous shoe print in the world is not on this world at all. It’s on the moon, probably still there in the gray dust.
Michael Brown Sr. is unapologetically quiet and introverted.
Detroit is known as one of the more unfit cities in the United States. It is hard to put down the Coney dogs with extra chili and Detroit-styl…
PITTSBURGH — The Whiskey Rebellion Trail just launched will connect for booze and history tourists 75-plus cultural sites and craft distilleri…
Ebony and Jet magazines were once pinnacles of Black American culture. Their photographs were windows into intimate moments of Black celebriti…
In September 2016, after departing “Suits” as its legal queen bee, Jessica Pearson, Gina Torres spoke about leaving a door open. But walking b…
R. Kelly has been denied bail and is in solitary confinement. He’s in the hole for his own protection from other inmates. The singer/songwrite…
A comedian, radio and TV host, author, actor, dancer, husband, father, and so much more, D.L. Hughley is ready to tackle the next item on his …
In the world of broadcasting, the afternoon time slot is thought of as the Holy Grail of career opportunities. So it’s hard to imagine that an…
WASHINGTON — R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop icons Earth, Wind and Fire are in the latest class of Kennedy Center Honors recipients.
Author, film historian and educator Donald Bogle has written numerous books on African Americans in cinema, including “Dorothy Dandridge: A Bi…
Roughly 40% of the physicians and clinical staff at Drexel University will lose their jobs as part of the planned closure of Hahnemann Univers…
NEW YORK — U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest.
LOS ANGELES — New research gives some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer's disease and how this mo…
Fight trainer Freddie Roach and the Rev. Jesse Jackson — a recent convert to boxing training — talk about how their sessions together have hel…
Sophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted plenty of attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger proble…
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates trying to appeal to progressive voters with a call for "Medicare for All" are wrestling with t…
LOS ANGELES — Joe Biden was at a soul food restaurant in Los Angeles on Thursday when he blasted President Donald Trump’s “racist” taunts at a…
The nightly lineups for CNN’s two-night Democratic primary debate were set Thursday.
MONACO (AP) — Former world indoor 400-meter champion Kemi Adekoya has been banned for four years for doping in another drug case to hit Bahrai…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tyreek Hill has been cleared to report to Chiefs training camp next week after the NFL said Friday it would not suspend the…
CAIRO — FIFA president Gianni Infantino promised unwavering support for the scandal-ridden and dysfunctional African soccer confederation on T…
BOSTON — Former Boston Red Sox infielder Elijah "Pumpsie" Green, the first Black player on the last major league team to field one, has died. …
NEW YORK — Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, …
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — An iconic glass-paned church in Southern California that once housed a booming televangelist ministry has been transfor…
NEW YORK — When the Rev. Amy K. Butler was hired to lead Riverside Church in Manhattan in 2014, she was hailed as a rising star, the first wom…
Americans’ age, education level and religious affiliation matter greatly when it comes to their opinions on a prospective clergy member’s sexu…
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