Magic Johnson has taken to Twitter to reveal that he will no longer complain about the Los Angeles Lakers as it does no good, reports USAToday. The NBA legend, who was five titles with the Lakers in his career, has criticised the team on a number of occasions throughout the last few years. However, he’s now admitted that his complaining …

The U.S. Capitol Police said Friday that Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., will not be charged over an incident earlier this week in which he verbally threatened a reporter.

They may be 18 years apart, but the sisterly love between Ireland Baldwin and Carmen is already very strong. Ireland posted an adorable picture of herself sharing a cuddle with her baby half-sister on Friday.

How do you make a $4 million dollar Super Bowl commercial go viral before the big game? Offend the NFL and its sponsors. And that’s exactly what the popular Soda Stream Super Bowl advertisement did featuring Scarlett Johansson. The home soda machine spot called for Johansson to ponder how she could make the commercial viral. She dropped her robe, hopped …

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm, and originally both the performers and audiences are African American.

Born into slavery in Kentucky in1842, Allen Allensworth gained his freedom in the Civil War when the Forty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry was camped in Louisville, Kentucky. Young Allensworth dressed in an old uniform, plastered mud over his face and marched boldly up Main street with the Union soldiers. After escaping he served as a civilian nursing aide with the Forty-fourth …

Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. against the “triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.” Audio. This speech was released by Black Forum records, a subsidiary of Motown, and went on to win a Grammy (in 1972, according to Wikipedia, in 1970, according to Grammy website) for the Best Spoken Word Recording.

Henry Box Brown was an abolitionist lecturer and performer. Born a slave in Louisa County, he worked in a Richmond tobacco factory and lived in a rented house. Then, in 1848, his wife, who was owned by another master and who was pregnant with their fourth child, was sold away to North Carolina, along with their children.

We all say dumb things. But luckily for most of us, we don’t have reporters and television cameras documenting our every word. Because no one cares what we have to say. Sadly, celebs don’t have that luxury. It’s rough for them, but occasionally hilarious for us!

An Ohio woman hates her name so much, she’ll soon ask a judge to legally change her name to Sexy. Yes, Sexy. Ranea Crabtree of Pataskala, Ohio refuses to use the name her parents gave her – Sheila. Crabtree is asking a Licking County Judge to officially change her name once and for all.

A new study finds a weight problem can begin in children as young as 5 years old. Researchers at Emory University looked at childhood obesity among nearly 8,000 kids 5 to 14 years old. They found when children entered kindergarten at 5 years old, 12 percent were obese and another 15 percent were overweight. The annual incidence of obesity dropped …