Sunday night’s 68th Annual Tony Awards were all about Audra McDonald and James Monroe Iglehart, as one became the most decorated Broadway actress of all time with her win and the other saw his decision to surpass being a pro wrestler and a Harlem Globetrotter pay off with his first Tony win. McDonald wowed Broadway…

The family of poet and author Maya Angelou are holding a private memorial service Saturday at Wake Forest University where Angelou served as the Reynolds Professor of American Studies from 1982 until her death, the News & Record reports. Angelou’s close friend and mentee Oprah Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight that she would be speaking at…

Restaurant owner, designer, decorator and model B. Smith has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, reports CBS News, which sat down with Smith in an interview set to air later this month. During the interview, Smith, the first African-American model to be featured on the cover of Mademoiselle, couldn’t recall the date, month or year. “Things…

Thirty-one-year-old Kyle Jones is in a relationship with a 91-year-old great-grandmother, Marjorie McCool, whom he met at a bookstore where he worked some five years ago when she was a spry 86-year-old. The two have been dating casually since then and have an active sex life.    Jones, of Augusta, Ga., is also dating a…

Rene Lima-Marin robbed two video stores 15 years ago, when he was just 19. He walked into the stores with an unloaded rifle and demanded money. He admitted to the crime and was sentenced to what he and his lawyer believed was a 16-year-sentence. After 10 years of serving time, Lima-Marin was set free. He…

The tug-of-war between Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and the NBA may finally be over, with the Associated Press reporting late Wednesday that Sterling would sign off on selling the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a reported $2 billion. The agreement has not become official as Sterling has yet to actually…

New York City police have arrested the man they believe stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death and severely wounded a 7-year-old-girl in a public housing elevator, the Associated Press reports.   Daniel St. Hubert, 27, was arrested after 8 p.m. Wednesday in a Queens neighborhood just minutes after Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police…

Dozens of police from across New York City stormed two Harlem housing projects, arresting some 100 people they believe have been at the center of a deadly gang feud that included the 2011 killing of an 18-year-old woman destined for basketball greatness. According to the New York Daily News, police dressed in full combat gear…

African-American workers at a cotton gin in Memphis, Tenn., have filed a federal discrimination complaint claiming that they were subjected to racism and Jim Crow conditions that included a supervisor longing for the old days when they could “hang” black men who drank out of the wrong water fountain, Raw Story reports.    According to…

Justin Bieber’s publicist has to be working overtime considering that the pop singer just apologized Sunday for a 2009 video that surfaced showing him telling a racist joke that included repeated use of the n-word in its punch line. Now a new video has surfaced allegedly showing the Biebs singing about killing a “n—ger” and…