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Over the last four years, Eastern Michigan University has clearly stamped itself as the statewide leader in keeping costs down for its students while still reinvesting in key academic facilities and programs, President Susan Martin said Tuesday (March 12) in testimony before Lansing lawmakers.During her appearance before the House...

Beyonce Knowles-Carter is moving full-steam ahead with her plans to dominate every aspect of the entertainment world in 2013. In addition to scoring the $50 million contract with Pepsi, performing the halftime show for the Superbowl, releasing her fifth studio album, and going on a worldwide tour, the wife-mother-mogul is also...

Looking for a quality car? If you're planning on buying American, you've got quite a couple of neat options.Consumer Reports has released it's latest list of "Top American Cars". Who's at the top? Chevy wins big. After being dubbed by the publication as the "best of the best" brand, the automaker placed in several categories.Budget car: the...

Yesterday's historic conviction of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sent city residents in a tweeting frenzy. Taking to social media to express their thoughts on the verdict, Detroiters created a whirlwind of response. Quickly making #kwame a trending topic, some expressed profound disappointment while others celebrated what...

Barbara McQuade, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, whose office prosecuted one of the largest public corruption cases in Detroit’s history that was dubbed “the Kilpatrick Enterprise,” that resulted in a guilty verdict by a federal jury today, told journalists at her office this afternoon that there are some pending c...

I recall almost a decade ago when former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the height of his powers walked up to me at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and asked “Can a brother get a good word from you?” My response was, “Mr. Mayor, give me something good to write about.”Apparently, the mayor was concerned that he wasn’t getting f...

Health and wellness are areas that tend to take a backseat to the stresses of everyday living. We get so caught up in the “hustle and bustle” of our routines that we forget to take care of what matters most. We tend to stop and only pay attention to our bodies when something is wrong. Yet, prevention goes a long way to ensure that we live long and...

It’s that time! The highly anticipated new Tyler Perry movie “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor” will be out this month on March 29. If you have been living under a rock and missed the trailer for the new flick, it stars Jurnee Smollet-Bell (The Great Debaters), Lance Gross ("House of Payne"), Robbie Jones ("90210"), Kim Kardashian,...

On Thursday, Feb. 28, the Detroit Regional Chamber hosted the 2013 Detroit Policy Conference at the MotorCity Casino Hotel. The 2013 conference hosted over 450 entrepreneurs, small business owners, major corporations and civic partners, and addressed hot button issues for Detroit as well as opportunities for urban and suburban...

In 1995, Montell Jordan had a huge hit with “This Is How We Do It.” It remained No. 1 on the national R&B and Pop charts for an amazing seven weeks, and he had a number of additional successes. He announced in 2010 that he was leaving R&B and moving into church work and gospel music. In 2011 he had an album titled...