NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Taylor Swift and Beyonce are among the artists set to perform next month at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, it was announced Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police concerns about a terrorist attack stemming from the 2003 arrest of Michael Jackson led to a request for federal help, according to FBI files kept on the late pop star.

Who even knew that any children of slaves were still alive? A debt of gratitude is owed to Sana Butler for compiling this bittersweet collection of revealing interviews with the offspring of folks freed by the Emancipation Proclamation well over a century ago. What makes this book special is how seamlessly the author contrasts her aging subjects' fading recollections with her own expectations of them and her intimate reflections about being Black and female in present-day America.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The year's biggest hits on the Internet's top video channel were anchored by an improbable singing sensation, a groggy boy nursing a sore mouth, a bride and groom dancing down the wedding aisle, supernatural heartthrobs and roller-skating babies.

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(GIN) – Muslim rapper K'Naan's song, "Wavin' Flag," has been picked as the soundtrack for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa – soccer's greatest spectacle - to take place next summer during June and July.

Associated Press music rankings of the year's best singles.

The first decade of the new millennium produced some amazing albums, CDs that should go down with the best works of art. You might not find those albums on this list -- which doesn't mean this list isn't the best of the decade.

"We have a generation of young black boys and girls coming along in droves that have been raised exclusively by single-mothers... Consequently, it is readily apparent that while some children's antipathy is directed towards non-residential fathers, specifically around issues of abandonment and contact, the person that I see more often than not at the end of this red-hot skewer is the single mother…

NEW YORK (AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.