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(Photo: Jake Roth, USA TODAY Sports) Tiger Woods is finally out of the forest of that nearly all consuming sex scandal which overshadowed his masterful play and he is again on top, i.e., a winner. Neither his faulty driver or the occasional raised brow could keep him from his destiny, and Woods again rose to the...

Surprise! Chris Brown is arrogant, narcissistic, self-centered, immature, irresponsible and in general a jerk. And now with his pseudo self-portrait that depicts him as a Jesus like figure, even I have to come to his rescue. Although his detractors and haters speculate that the painting is more evidence that Brown’s oversized ego an...

Three White students at Waverly High School in Waverly, New York allegedly wore blackface as they parodied the 2009 domestic violence incident between Chris Brown and Rihanna at a pep rally last Friday, according to a CNN iReport. The incident has been deemed racist and insensitive by many in attendance. The story originated from an ireporter who ...

By Special to the Daily WorldCOLUMBUS, GA — Although the U.S. unemployment rate has decreased in recent months, many people in our community still...

  Tracy Martin (left) and Sybrina Fulton, the parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, address the media during the National Action Network Convention...

By Associated PressBALANDI, Afghanistan (AP) – President Hamid Karzai said a U.S. service member killed 16 people – nine  children and three women – ...

“We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us in things which concern us dearly.” When Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm wrote those words on the front page of their Freedom's Journal newspaper 181 years ago, they were sta

Even though she won't start until January 2009, Paula Allen-Meares has big plans as the first Black chancellor for the University of Illinois-Chicago.

DETROIT Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future.

Michelle Obama has all of a sudden become the center of attention in the election because she is perceived by John McCain's people to have made Barack Obama vulnerable to an attack on his loyalty to the country.