Karen Brigsby Bates, NPR (NPR.com)—Cosmetics giant L’Oréal purchased Carol’s Daughter, a beauty company that sells natural hair and skin products for black women, earlier this week....
Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST CLEVELAND (The Washington Post)—It was an at-times tense but by all accounts probing conversation when a few hundred gathered here...
Josh Constine, TECH CRUNCH (TechCrunch.com)—Last month I reported that Apple would shut down Beats Music and likely add streaming music to iTunes. Apple denied, specifically, that Beats...
Gary Strauss, USA TODAY HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (USA Today)—Cash-strapped Sears Holdings rose 4.5% to $35.95 Thursday following a report that it plans to close 116 Sears...
TSD Editor, Dr. Ajanaku interviews the first African American admitted to UT Memphis, and his then roomate. Be sure to
(Wired) – Amazon has a lot of space in its warehouses, and that’s a good thing. It needs some serious room, you see, to store...
(Reuters) – Drugmakers are looking for some kind of indemnity from governments or multilateral agencies against possible losses or claims arising from the widespread emergency...
(Bloomberg) – The European Union increased its aid pledge to fight Ebola in West Africa to 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) as Mali became the sixth...
(BBC) – Voters are going to the polls in Botswana in what is expected to be the closest general elections in the world’s largest diamond...
(BBC) – Women’s football may be the fastest growing sport in the world but it faces huge challenges in Africa. More than 20 years after coming...
GOSIA WOZNIACKA, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon expanded its investigation into discrimination at the Portland truck-making plant of German automotive giant Daimler AG after...
(National Monitor) – Middle-class individuals throughout the United States have a median of just $20,000 total saved for retirement, compared to the $250,000 necessary to sustain...
(Vavel) – It was the marquee matchup of Week 8 between two of the AFC’s best teams battling for the top spot in the AFC West....
GREG BEACHAM, AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Nash hoped for one more chance to show off his playmaking skills after fighting injuries and...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge says Chris Brown has been doing well and following his probation rules since his last hearing in August. The...
FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — What’s in a bra? Femininity, sexiness and self-empowerment, says Halle Berry, who is launching a lingerie line...
BILL BARROW, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Senate race boils down to a battle of extremes. At least that’s how Democratic Sen. Kay...
(Reuters) – U.S. officials are debating whether to tighten controls on the border with Canada and make it easier to revoke the passports of suspected...
(Chicago Sun-Times) – He styled himself “The People’s Attorney” and once claimed that 3 million listeners tuned in to hear his brand of black empowerment on...
HAVEN DALEY, Associated Press WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley startup has developed technology to let dispatchers know when a police officer’s weapon has been...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — From violence to verbal taunts, abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America’s adolescents, according to a new,...
(Vanity Fair) – To be an undocumented immigrant is to obsess over documents. A driver’s license, for example, is not merely a driver’s license—it proves you...
Strong North American sales lead 3rd-quarter figures TOM KRISHER, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) – Big profits from rising SUV and truck sales in North America...
