A D.C. organization that helps women coping with homelessness got a huge surprise Thursday: a $1 million donation from Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey spoke Thursday afternoon at the sold-out annual luncheon...

I Shed Tears I shed tears Yet know now why I cry I shed tears For fears Yet I’m not afraid To die I shed tears For love lost That I never Fell in I shed tears Cause growing pains Creates necessary...

A Detroit man who was incarcerated after being wrongly convicted of four murders is walking free today, after serving nearly nine years of a sentence he received at the age of 15. The murder convictions...

Dear “Up and Coming” Gangsters. Understand this, the Life you Lead, will Lead to your Untimely Death, or Incarceration. Where you will lose all Financial Gains, all the Bad Bitches, and Another...

“It is so disagreeable to think ill of ourselves, that we often purposely turn away our view from those circumstances which might render that judgment unfavourable. He is a bold surgeon, they say,...

Afeni Shakur Tupac Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur activist, Black Panther, poet, actress, NY 21 political prisoner,  addicted to freedom and liberation The Black Panther Party, life addicted to...

Prince- SYCE after death By Demond A. Jackson As a fan, musician and a true music lover. When I first heard of Prince ‘ Roger ‘ Nelson death, it hit me like a brick. I felt like a great prophets...

Choice of Evils A lot of us are not uneducated because we are dumb. We are uneducated because our parents could not afford a car to take us back and forth to school. Or we just stopped going because it...

D.C. Can’t Keep Up with the Demand for Public Housing BY MICHELLE GOLDCHAIN While those with lower incomes continue to cope with skyrocketing rents and gentrification, Washington, D.C....

Sometimes It Snows In April Sometimes its cold When its supposed to be warm Broken hearts don’t seem whole In the eye of the storm Single mothers smile To hide tears from their child Though their...