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The family of an African-American man who was killed when he was beaten and run over with a truck has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a group of teens alleged to have been present at the time of the attack. The lawsuit — filed Tuesday in a Mississippi court — alleges that seven white […]

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It’s an event for the whole family, the Inaugural Rocketts Red Glare Fireworks Event,  Labor Day, Monday, September 5th, family events start at 7:30pm, fireworks around 9:15 with the Richmond Symphony performing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture during the fireworks. Details www.rockettevillage.com.

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Former Friends star Lisa Kudrow has turned down a string of lucrative big movie roles because she can’t bear to be apart from her family for long periods of time. While her former TV co-star Jennifer Aniston has gone on to become a big star in Hollywood, Kudrow insists she has purposely resisted the lure […]

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Singer Ginuwine is ready for a comeback. And he’s going the tried and somewhat true route of reality tv. Elgin “Ginuwine” Lumpkin is on the road to being known again, all while raising his kids and being a husband to wife Solé. Solé, the “woman of God” former singer whose real name is Tanya Lumpkin, […]

Spring is a wonderful time to create new family habits for a fresh start.  Some people consider spring time the real new year.  Here are some tips for creating new habits for your family: 1. Commit to Thirty Days – Three to four weeks is all the time you need to make a habit automatic. […]

Chris Rock recently stated that “I wanted to do something in New York,” right across the bridge from the New Jersey home he shares with his wife, Malaak, and daughters, Lola, 9, and Zahra, 7. USA Today reports that despite being the family man, the title of the new Broadway play that marks comedian and […]

Holidays! This is the time of the year when people go visit their families for, supposedly, good times and a nice meal together. Well, these are gatherings where we revive family ties and catch up on news from everyone. More often than not, though, what we see is a gathering of a bunch of people […]

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National (TheRoot)– Forty-four-year-old Cassandra Jackson recently returned home to Chicago from Memphis, Tenn., in hopes of upgrading her quality of life and beating the odds faced by so many single African-American mothers: finding a job.

Dear Gay Best Friend, I usually don’t do this but I really need some advice. Long story short my sister put her son out and when he wanted to come back home she put so many conditions on his return he felt like he could not go back home. For example, he had to break […]

Singer Mario recently ran into troubles with the law after he and his mother got into an altercation at her home. Details surfaced that Mario’s mother is addicted to drugs and a large part of the altercation stemmed from Mario’s efforts in trying to prevent his mother from doing drugs. This is not the first […]

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I have always been told by my friends that I have a unique relationship with my mother. I can be open with her and tell her about my personal life, she can do the same with me. I always could turn to her for advice without the fear that she would be overly judgmental towards […]