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While the Moore Medical Center crumbled around her on Monday afternoon, Shay-la Taylor was in labor with her second baby boy. The mom-to-be knew about the severe weather watch as she checked into the hospital to be induced at 9 a.m. that morning, but says she wasn’t really nervous. “We’re used to tornadoes and sirens,” [...]

Chelesa Fearce is a shining example of a student that didn’t let obstacles get in her way when it came to her education. You  see, during most of Chelesa’s high school career she was homeless and living in her mother’s car.  Chelesa, a senior at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Georgia, knew that [...]

This weekend was a busy one for Dorian Joyner, Sr. This past Sunday morning, he watched his oldest son graduate from Morehouse College. Joyner had a front row seat for commencement. After all, he was also a fellow graduate himself. Joyner started his Morehouse journey back in 1984, but never finished. Three years ago, he [...]

President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people’s lives. Noting the Atlanta school’s mission to cultivate, not just educate, good men, Obama [...]

Valerie B. Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will address the some 600 members of the Class of 2013 and an international audience of their family and friends at Wellesley College’s 135th Commencement Exercises . “We are delighted to welcome Valerie Jarrett to Wellesley as our 2013 Commencement speaker,” said president H. Kim Bottomly . [...]

A New Jersey kindergartner was able to help save his father’s life on Monday thanks to some quick thinking and a firm grasp of his ABCs. Nathaniel Dancy Jr. had spent the day going to the movies and buying new shoes for school with his father on Monday afternoon when Nathaniel Dancy Sr. began suffering [...]

Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, and music industry entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine have donated a combined $70 million to create a new institute at the University of Southern California, the school announced recently. The huge gift from the two who have been music business partners in the past will be used to create [...]

Steve Harvey, who hosts a television talk show and the game show “Family Feud,” received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category. Television talk show hosts Ellen DeGeneres and Phil McGraw joined Harvey at the ceremony in front of the W Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. “I share this star with every single [...]

The story line for the 90’s hit comedy series Sister Sister could not ring anymore true for sisters Jordan Dickerson and Robin Jeter. Jordan Dickerson, a junior at Woodrow Wilson High School, and Robin Jeter, a senior at Friendship Collegiate Academy public charter school, both attended schools 10 miles apart from each other in Washington [...]

Some of the Chicago area’s best high school basketball players from both South and West sides of town rallied together to compete in a basketball tournament in hopes that it would help put an end to street violence. The Chicago United Hoops Classic took place this past weekend at the Gerald E. Ratner Center on [...]