No new juror selections were made in the R. Kelly child pornography trial, leaving the total chosen to eight.

The final day of jury selection in the R. Kelly case proved to be the most dramatic of the four-day process when the judge allowed a rape victim to serve on the jury. The defense also alleged that prosecutors were trying to fill the jury box with white jurors.

A woman was held in contempt for shouting "Free R. Kelly" while the 15-member jury in the R&B singer's child pornography trial was being esorted by sheriff deputies to the courtroom Thursday.

Prosecutors first warned jurors that what they were going to see was “vile, disturbing, disgusting,” then wasted no time showing jurors the homemade sexually explicit videotape that is the hub of the their child pornography case against urban music superstar R. Kelly.

It's about time. That was Karl A. Brinson's reaction to the NAACP's selection of its youngest president ever, 35-year-old Benjamin Jealous. Jealous, a Rhodes Scholar and former director of Amnesty International's U.S. Human Rights Program, got the nod from the civil rights organization's board Saturday.

A Chicago police officer was among four people who testified Wednesday in the R. Kelly child pornography trial that the female in the videotape showing an allegedly underage girl and the music superstar having sex is their then teenage niece and friend.

Before court recessed for the day on Wednesday, two more of the prosecution's witnesses in the R. Kelly child pornography case identified the alleged victim, depicted in the 27-minute homemade sex tape, as a girl in her early teens.

Lisa Van Allen, 27, chronicled her first meeting with Kelly in Georgia when she was 17 years old, to her last group sex encounter with him and the alleged victim in 2000 on the set of a music video filming in Chicago.

Dear Gwendolyn, Five years ago I decided to look for a wife. I came up with the perfect idea. I decided to marry a woman of the night. So, I took to the streets in my search. Every other night I met a different woman. Then like magic, I fell in love at first sight. Sure, she was working the streets, but that's what I wanted.

The retirement of Rev. Jeremiah Wright still stands, leaving Trinity United Church of Christ under the pastorate of Rev. Otis Moss III, contrary to a published report last week, Moss told parishioners Sunday.