Dorchester native Kasheef Wyzard’s motto is work hard, play hard.

The local cast member of BET’s “College Hill: Interns” puts his mantra to the test Tuesday night at 10.

“The second episode, you know what happened,” said the Georgia State University senior.

“College Hill: Interns,” a spin-off of BET’s popular reality series “College Hill,” placed 10 students together in Chicago for summer internships as communications and promotion assistants with Fortune 500 companies.

Last week’s episode ended with Wyzard passed out on the bathroom floor after a raucous night of partying.   more »

The 2007 Ebony Fashion Fair promises to be a real trip - a "Glam Odyssey."

Celebrating its golden anniversary, the world's largest traveling fashion show makes a stop in Knoxville at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at the Civic Auditorium.

The 90-minute show, sponsored by the Iota Alpha chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., will feature nearly 200 pieces showcased on two male models and 10 female strutters, including a full-figured catwalker. Steering the extravaganza will be velvet-voiced commentator Jada Collins.

The show will open with a fashion retrospective, with models donning looks from the past five decades.

"The oldest outfits are from the 1950s," said assistant producer Kenneth Owen, who has been with the show 24 years. "It's a pair of vintage men's Brioni suits. You weren't fashionable if you didn't own a Brioni suit back then."

Owen noted that the suits had to be altered a bit to fit the modern male-model physique.

"The guys weren't as buff back then," he said.   more »

John Willis Menard was born on April 3, 1838. He was a black politician.

From Kalkaska, Ill., he was the first Black elected to the U.S. Congress who was denied his seat by that body. During the Civil War (1861-65) he served as a clerk in the U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1865 he moved to New Orleans, where he became active in the Republican Party, serving as inspector of customs and later as a commissioner of streets. He also published a newspaper, The Free South, later named The Radical Standard. Elected to Congress from Louisiana in 1868 to fill an unfinished term, Menard failed to overcome an election challenge by the loser and Congress refused to seat either man.   more »