Renee Poussaint, an award-winning journalist who anchored for CBS and ABC and later turned into a lecturer, has passed away. She was 77.
Drug kingpin Alpo Martinez, who inspired the 2002 film Paid In Full, has been fatally shot in Harlem, New York.
Police have arrested Justin Soriano, the man accused of fatally shooting his pregnant ex-girlfriend as she came home from her baby shower.
Authorities in New York have identified the suspected gunman in the fatal shooting of Shanice Young, a pregnant woman killed after her own baby shower in...
Clarence Williams III, who was a Black power icon in the 1960s and 1970s, has died.
Malcolm X was revered as one of the most influential figures of our time. If he were alive today, we would be celebrating his 90th birthday.
Sylvia Woods, the founder of famed Sylvia's Soul Food Restaurant in Harlem, has died. She was 86.
Malcolm X was assassinated during a rally of one of his followers in a ballroom in New York City.
Piri Thomas, the author known for the best-selling book "Down These Mean Streets" has died today (October 17, 2011). He was 83.
Murphy, 18, one of the top-rated basketball players in the country, was killed in Harlem's Grant Houses at about 4:10 a.m., police said.