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Dozens of people gathered at City Hall to discuss what is needed to address the challenges facing black males in Ohio. The Monday evening meeting was one of 15 stops across the state by the Ohio Commission on African-American Males. The commission is a state agency set up to identify and promote strategies and policies to foster improvements in ...

    Whoopi Goldberg, Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry appear on Entertainment Weekly's 25 Smartest People in TV, a list of small-screen titans who are driving today's sharpest shows and deals.          Goldberg and her co-hosts on ''The View'' were listed at No. 25.5 for ''juicing their ...

  President-elect Barack Obama made a ''bad decision'' by distancing himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his church, Wright said Sunday -- but that's OK. ''He's still my child,'' Wright said in a sermon in which he expressed pride in Obama's longtime association with Trinity United Church of Christ. His talk was spiced with his ...

  In this Oct. 24, 1966 file photo, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is shown in...  An original handwritten outline for Martin Luther King Jr.'s first speech condemning the Vietnam War owned by his friend Harry Belafonte is going on the auction block this week. Sotheby's will offer the document for sale Thursday ...

    Reporting from Washington -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi took stewardship of the House two years ago with a pledge to ''drain the swamp'' and clean up ethical abuses in Congress. Now an investigation of one of her party's best-known members is putting her in an uncomfortable spot.Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York is the subject of an ...

  Debmar-Mercury's rookie sitcom, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, is running in the middle of the pack when it comes to off-net sitcoms, but among the African-American audiences it targets, it tops anything else on television. Among African-American adults age 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, House of Payne is the No. 1 show in all of network prime, ...

  Nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson, who has been battling scandals and a federal indictment for the past three years, lost his bid for re-election on Saturday.       Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson has been embroiled in a bribery scandal. Republican challenger Anh ''Joseph'' Cao, an ...

O.J. Simpson  (AP Photo)   Despite pleas by O.J. Simpson and his attorneys that called for leniency in his sentencing Friday over a botched robbery, assault and kidnap attempt more than a year ago in Las Vegas, a Clark County judge remained unmoved by both and sealed the defamed NFL football legend’s fate with a 15-year prison ...

Earl Stafford announces his plan to give away hundreds of rooms for Inauguration Week in Washington on Thursday.   Earl Stafford is giving away the ultimate political vacation. So it's no surprise that the response has been, in his words, ''overwhelming.''   Stafford, a Virginia businessman, has reserved $1 million worth of ...

O.J. Simpson was sentenced to at 15 years in prison, and could be eligible for parole in nine.  A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, ''It was much more than stupidity.'' The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled ...