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FROM disco to hip-hop to gangsta rap, this group has ridden out every musical trend of the last 40 years--and is still one of R&B s best-kept secrets. The band [...]

From Maryland to Ohio, Pennsylvania to Tennessee, nearly a half-dozen Black political candidates are competing for some of the highest offices in the nation. If many of them win, the [...]

Great Britain's biggest export since the Beatles is perhaps none other than a Black male fashion designer whose Bespoke Couture line is bewitching customers on both sides of the ocean. [...]

LORIE Williams almost become a breast cancer statistic. But she turned the tables on the statistics, not only surviving an aggressive form of the disease, but also participating in a [...]

It's no stretch to say that when Sister President Johnnetta Betsch Cole came out of retirement to assume the presidency of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C., four years [...]

OLD AGE ain't what it used to be. The face of aging in the United States is rapidly and dramatically changing--it's youthful, vigorous, active and employed well past typical retirement [...]

PROVERBS 27:17 states, 'As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend.' These women minister-friends exemplify that proverb--they sharpen each other. They are 'rev-strs,' a colloquialism they coined meaning reverend-sisters--Black [...]

He is the mogul with the moxie, whose motto may well be that success is the best revenge, or more to the point--don't get mad, get paid! South Florida-based business [...]

BLACK America's best-known acting duo is in adjoining chairs for hair and makeup--and the repartee is flying fast. They are discussing working together in Freedomland, only their second film together, [...]

MICHELLE OBAMA is the quintessential working Sister, juggling three schedules daily--homework, piano and dance lessons and sports activities for her two young daughters, her own busy schedule as an executive [...]

It was love, international style, with brides and grooms exchanging vows in exotic locales, including panoramic views from the beaches of Maui to the top of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, [...]

FOUNDED by an ex-slave in 1905, and having overcome wars, depression, economic downturns and social and institutional segregation, this year the Atlanta Life Financial Group triumphantly celebrated 100 years of [...]

DANCE AFRICAN-AMERICAN visual artists, dancers and playwrights have never been short of inspiration. The seeds of struggle for personal freedom fueled a creative explosion in the 1940s and 1950s, watered [...]

WITH little or no fanfare, African-American ministers, male and female, have moved into major leadership roles in the spiritual hierarchies of prestigious Ivy League universities. Five of the eight Ivy [...]

JOHN HAROLD JOHNSON was the people's publisher. He built a legacy celebrating the achievements and beauty of Black Americans, and they, in turn, honored that legacy by paying tribute to [...]

He had a voice like liquid velvet. And a way of caressing a ballad that made legions of star-struck listeners inclined to recline. Luther Vandross and his signature sound defined [...]

It was a dream wedding for a Dream-girl. Complete with bright lights and big stars, the Los Angeles wedding of actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and the Honorable Senator Vincent James [...]

SHE'S 'unbreaking' her heart. A heart disease scare temporarily sidetracked her, but Toni Braxton is blasting back with a new album and a new focus on life. In fact, the [...]

WITH the same spirit and enthusiasm exhibited by legends like Mahalia and the venerable Thomas Dorsey, today-'s new young gospel music performers--including Smokie Norful, Tonex and Israel Houghton & New [...]

WITH chicken wings and waffles, in Capri or couture, on the opening night red carpet and, later, when the reviews come in--they are there. Through children, men, weddings, funerals--they are [...]

IT was a year of star-spangled brides and grooms, from Star Jones, the princess of daytime television, to the prince of praise, Byron Cage, from a prince of the gridiron, [...]

THE gusts and gales of last season's hurricanes have prompted many winter travelers to look in their own back yard, or at least close to home, for vacation fun. And [...]

IN his father's native language, the name means 'Blessed.' In Hebrew, it means flash of lightning. In English, the name will soon mean United States Senator. Barack Obama is heavily [...]

SHE'S back! After 10 years of topping the smooth jazz play lists in absentia, Anita Baker, Detroit's hometown diva, has returned to the top of the charts with a new [...]

WHAT happens when it seems that fate has played a cruel joke and a woman's very life can be in question? What do you do when an intimate part of [...]

BLACK colleges and universities have always been on the cutting edge of American education. Often forced to operate in hostile environments with limited resources, HBCUs have continued to provide an [...]

WHAT Jada wants, Jada gets--from life, from the movie industry, from her children, and from Will. The petite powerhouse is no pushover. She has a pragmatic if not downright pugnacious [...]

FIGHTING fat has become a national obsession. And while fat jokes used to be the staple of every stand-up comic, the health problems that stem from being overweight are no [...]

BRIDAL gown styles for 2004 are reminders of a more glamorous era. With draping and gatherings reminiscent cent of the '30s, and feminine details like lace, today's bridal gowns are [...]

TALENTED and at the top of their game, a growing group of teens is making grown-ups sit up and pay attention. Before they can legally drive in some cases or [...]

LIKE a diamond, real love is durable, shines brightly, and has many facets. In 2003, couples celebrated some of those facets with creative and stylish nuptials, from an island affair [...]

IN the past, travel during the holidays has been frowned upon in favor of hearth and home. But an intrepid group of wanderers have made the holiday season their favorite [...]

IT can become a part of a woman's life when she's too young to drink or vote and certainly too young to run for president. And it can all start [...]

MUSIC icon Erykah Badu is in a new mood musically and personally. She's making new music and she has a new man, Next month Badu will release her fourth album, [...]

GOSPEL great Vickie Winans has overcome many personal challenges in her life--poverty, divorce, illness, and deaths of loved ones--but she says that one of her greatest victories was overcoming a [...]

KITCHEN chores don't scare him. Laundry? He scoffs. Ferrying 5-year-old twins? Doesn't faze him. Who is this superman? He's the new househusband, a man who takes care of home while [...]

SAY their names, and it immediately recalls a time, a place, an event, a special date, or a special moment. Say the names out loud: Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Jackie [...]

TODAY'S bridal belles are breaking old traditions and making up new ones. Here comes the bride, all dressed in ... Suede? Red? Blush? Orange? It's a new day and many [...]

A special date with their special mate and a peck of planning for a pint of time keep Black America's increasing number of million-dollar couples in love and in the [...]

SUMMER vacations are now served family-style! When it's time to relax, re-wind and reconnect with family, nothing brings the family together like an old-fashioned vacation. With school a distant memory [...]

WHETHER on secluded beaches, in sumptuous ballrooms, majestic cathedrals or simply squeezed into a press conference, actors, actresses, singers, lawyers and football coaches all said their 'I Do's' in 2002 [...]

IT'S not that easy being a King. The mantle of Kingship weighs heavily on the shoulders of Black America's first family and its chosen spokesman, 42-year-old Dexter Scott King, feels [...]

THERE is a cruise for every interest and stage of Black life. There are cruises for everybody--single s, couples, preachers and professionals. There is a comedy cruise, a gospel cruise, [...]

DESTINY -- a man and his moment--met in Dallas and the results are still reverberating in cities around the world. When the Most Rev. Wilton D. Gregory, who is one [...]

SOME are household names who turn up every year and who are still mysteries in broad open daylight. Some made their big breakthrough for the first time in 2002. Some [...]

THEY'RE quite a team--the professional basketball player and the six other women whose stories follow. They are African-American breast cancer survivors and women with a game plan for survival. They [...]

THE end of summer brings mixed emotions to parents and children. Children miss summer play, but for parents, particularly working mothers, summer provides a mental vacation from the monumental scheduling [...]

RED-hot rappers are using their rhyming skills in acting rehearsals as much as in the recording studio as a bevy of rap stars reach for stage and film success. And [...]

TONI Braxton's signature sultry voice is even huskier than usual these days. Hoarse from lack of sleep, the superstar singer and actress told EBONY in an exclusive interview that the [...]

IT was a year of off-shoulder gowns, secret rendezvous and second and third chances. Singer Toni Braxton married her prince in a Georgia wonderland, and Emira Eagle Lymon, widow of [...]