Verbal withdrawal results in you not communicating as well as you used to. Examples are: You or your partner don’t want to talk about your day anymore. You or your partner no longer share thoughts and feelings about life and desires anymore. You find that you sit around the dinner table looking out the window […]

The New Yorker has unearthed a horrible secret related to the staffing of military bases in the Middle East. Companies that are contracted by the United States to provide support services to bases in locations like Afghanistan routinely lure women far from their homes to be employees, where they become trapped. After traveling from locations […]

“Octomom” Nadya Sulema had some help becoming one of the strangest figures on the pop culture landscape to emerge in a long time. Sulema got her nickname from her second birth, which produced eight children, but she was actually assisted by the same fertility doctor both times she conceived. After helping Octo have six children […]

FLORIDA– Florida’s Governor Rick Scott signed legislation Tuesday requiring drug screenings for adults applying for welfare assistance.

Nicki Minaj covers the 7th issue of the UK’s #5 Magazine. Though she wears eye-catching colors that pop on the cover (pink lips, blue eye shadow and a yellow hat), it’s her video interview with the mag that’s got us talking. Is it just us, or do her and this interviewer have major chemistry? Even […]

The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that cell phones raise the risk of cancer. The announcement, made after a team of international  scientists reviewed various studies on cell phone safety is particularly relevant to the black community as studies have consistently shown blacks to dominate cell phone use. Not to mention, African-Americans suffer the highest […]

The New York Times is reporting that investors are fleeing the stock market at a sharp pace in response to recent economic news. Wall Street trading took a two percent fall on Wednesday as employers have failed to add jobs to the hiring market at the previously predicted rate. In addition, other factors such as […]

ARIZONA– “WeGrow”, an Arizona superstore for marijuana-growing supplies, nicknamed “the Walmart of Weed”, will be the first chain outside of California to sell products devoted to growing cannabis.

The department of health in Massachusetts has announced that HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for African-American women in the state. It was also found that more than half of all AIDS cases there consist of black women specifically — most of whom became infected by their intimate partners. Dr. Bela Bashar, a clinical […]

NIGERIA-Police raided a house where teenage girls were forced to have babies which where then sold on the black market. The American Foreign Press reports: “We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies […]

Toni Braxton recently revealed to her family that she IS going to pose nude for ‘Playboy’ magazine. Her family goes back and forth with her decision with no backing from her mom: “I think a lot of men will have problems with that,” her mother told her. She went on to explain in a confessional […]

Jennifer Lopez is the new face of Tous jewelry. The 90-year-old Spanish company hand-selected Lopez who, for the Spring 2011 campaign, adorns herself with Asian-inspired parasols, hand fans and chopsticks while showing off rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings! See her first set of ads here: J.Lo The New Face Of 90-Year-Old Spanish Jewelry Co. [PHOTOS] […]