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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 58 years old.

Justice Department will file a brief today urging the Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriages to resume in California.

According to NewsOne, who cites TMZ, pictures of Dorner’s charred remains are being sold. Why are these pictures for sale? Would you look at them? And why haven’t the LAPD officers who shot two women delivering newspapers been charged and/or disciplined?

49 year-old Tonya Battles alleges that a hospital in Michigan granted a man’s request that no black nurses care for his newborn. Hospital supervisors say the man was openly white supremacist, and that they feared for the nurses’ safety.

A chaotic, surreal standoff at a cabin in the mountains of Big Bear, CA may have brought an end to the nearly two week-long manhunt for ex LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.

Embattled former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has reportedly signed a plea deal that will involve “significant jail time.” A source has told the Chicago Sun-Times that jail time would definitely be a part of any plea deal, and that his wife Sandi is the subject of a probe of her own.

Below is an original poem I wrote after my childhood friend, Naomi Clyburn, was murdered in my hometown.

The Pentagon has officially lifted the ban on female service members in combat.

Today President unveiled a sweeping gun control plan. It includes closing background check loopholes, banning assault weapons, and increasing access to mental health services. Does it stand a chance in Congress? What would you like to see to curb gun violence?

The battle over lengthening the school year for America’s students rages on. What do you think?

BET’s new documentary ‘Murder to Excellence: Life & Hip Hop in Chicago’ spotlights our youth, the challenges they face, and the multi-faceted art to which their struggle has given birth.

A 15 year-old Chicago student was allegedly strip-searched at his high school last month. His outraged parents plan to file suit against Chicago Public Schools. How could school officials ever deem a strip search appropriate?