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Slick Rick is many things: a hip-hop icon, a storytelling legend and now an American citizen.

The British-born, Bronx-bred rapper endured a 23-year legal battle with the immigration and naturalization departments in the United States, which at one point…

Matthew Walker Jr., a Freedom Ride veteran and key leader in the sit-in movement that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters, was remembered Saturday as a civil rights warrior, statesman and lieutenant in the fight for equality.

Friends, family and admirers packed Nashville’s Clark Memorial United Methodist Church Saturday afternoon…

Kourtney Kardashian- 37 years old

Amina Pankey- 33 years old

Conan O’Brien- 53 years old…

All it took was for one man to come forward and speak about alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Afrika Bambaataa. When Ronald Savage told his horrid story of the numerous times he says the hip-hop pioneer sexually abused him as a teenager, he got the world's attention. And now, in an interview with the New York Daily News, three other men have come forward…

AVERY PATTON

Barbara Osborne…

Al Green- 70 years old

Ty Dolla Sign- 31 years old

Ron Pearlman- 66 years old

Melvin Gordon- 23 years old

Lorenzo Cain- 30 years old…

Bobby Brown is ready to pour out his heart in a memoir.

Brown, 46, was a wildly successful R&B singer who ruled the radio waves throughout the early 1980s, as the former front man of New Edition. Shortly after discovering a solo career, Brown found…

Minister Louis Farrakhan, noted organizer and leader of the Nation of Islam, is scheduled to speak in Nashville this week during a conference designed to foster leadership among students at historically black colleges and universities.

Farrakhan will speak at…

Back in 2014, students at Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, N.J., were eating lunch when they were joined by a very special guest: Erykah Badu. She teamed up with the education initiative the Future Project to surprise students with a performance of her 1997 single "On and On." While she sings, she approaches a bunch of…

Many people are taking the option of low-cost travel with comfort by using Megabus. The company offers low fares to many cities across the country via the Internet and has Wi-Fi on its buses. However, one recent rider got an unwanted extra when she took the budget-friendly service. This past Sunday, the unidentified female was sitting…

Clothing retailer Gap has pulled an ad that some critics say delivers a "racist" message.

In the ad, a 12-year-old white girl from a youth performance group is leaning her arm on a black 8-year-old fellow troupe member, who also happens to be her adopted sister. Critics said the ad gives a message of "passive racism."

The campaign,…

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing some criticism for joking about "CP time" while performing in a comedic sketch alongside Hillary Clinton at a charity event over the weekend.

During Inner Circle's annual event in New York City that includes…

Looks like Ciara’s hard feelings towards her baby daddy aren’t softening anytime soon. In announcing the nominees for the Top Rap Artists at the upcoming Billboard Music Awards, Ciara suddenly got quiet when it was time to announce the Future's name. Fortunately another ATLien, her co-presenter Ludacris, jumped in and said “Future”…

Audrey Moore

Bates Robinson

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