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Michelle Obama launched a project that will allow students and educators around the nation to access scores of e-books.

Questions swirl about what caused the death of a woman locked up in South Carolina.

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Prepaid debit cards are a convenient way to make purchases, they prevent consumers from spending more money than they have and it is easy to add funds. Prepaid debit cards are like an auto brake pedal. They stop you from crashing and going overboard with your spending.

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Vice President Joe Biden will present at the Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday. No word yet on which category Biden will present.

President Obama signed a bill that includes a provision banning U.S. imports of fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia and gold mined by children in Africa.

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If Hillary Rodham Clinton is looking to appeal to more Black women voters, she might want to rethink her strategies.

A segregation law prevents an honors student from attending a charter school in St. Louis after his family moves out of the area.

After being diagnosed with schizophrenia, Romechia Simms allowed her son to die of hypothermia and dehydration while on a swing set. A judge is allowing Simms to seek medical treatment for her mental illness in lieu of prison.

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Bobby Brown and his wife Alicia Etheredge are reportedly expecting a new bundle of joy. According to a close source Etheredge, who tied the knot with Brown back in 2012, is carrying the couple’s third child.

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A St. Louis jury decided on Monday that Johnson & Johnson must pay the family of Jacqueline Fox $72 million in damages for the role their products played in the 62-year-old Alabama woman's death from stage-3 ovarian cancer after a two-year battle.

While some will be watching the live broadcast of the 88th Academy Awards this coming Sunday, a bevy of Black entertainers and celebrities will make their way to Flint, Mich. Director Ava DeVernay, actor Jesse Williams, comedian Hannibal Buress and several other big names will be joined together in solidarity for the #JUSTICEFORFLINT event on […]

The manslaughter conviction of a Brooklyn woman was overturned Tuesday after the borough’s district attorney’s office investigating the crooked ex-NYPD cop behind her arrest saw issues with the case. Vanessa Gathers has been free from prison since 2007 but the conviction that once marred her record is no more, according to a CBS New York […]