Confession: I've always liked Jordin Sparks. From her days on American Idol and since, she's always seemed like a good person. Sure, she's barely legal (22), so maybe youth had something to do with it, but still... I think she's good. As a singer, especially. Indeed, the teenager did more ...

There are so many stories that folks are sharing about their time with Whitney Houston, from Brandy and Monica talking about their mentor, to Chaka Khan, Jennifer Holliday and Kim Burrell talking about Whitney's vocal skills and the things she had to deal with. And then there was Kevin Costner, ...

To say Whitney Houston has an incredible discography would be an understatement. There's a Whitney song for almost any aspect of life, from love to hate and everything in between. There was always one song I loved from Whit more than the others. One that made my heart melt each ...

On the date of what would've been his 82nd birthday, it's easy to remember what the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was all about. We know about his dream, about his speeches and his prominent role in the civil rights movement. We know about his family, about his amazingly ...

As you've been reading here this week, 2011 has been chock full of inspiration. And it's only five days old. The buzz hadn't yet worn off from the Carol Burnett/OWN/Jay-Z high I was on when I peeped a video on the internet yesterday of a homeless man who'd been down ...

Last month, on Brian McKnight's talk show, the world got to see the just released El DeBarge making his public debut. Hearing El talk about what he went through over the past few years and the stories about how he came up in the music game and his musical family ...