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Obama Responds To 8-Year-Old’s Letter, Announces Trip To Flint, MI

Amandla Stenberg Opens Up About Their Gender Identity

Tyler James Williams is Changing the Game in New Series

WGN’s ‘Underground’ Renewed for Season 2

Cleveland to Pay $6 Million in Settlement to Tamir Rice’s Family Estate

Bryshere Gray to Play in New Edition Biopic

Broadway’s ‘The Color of Purple’ cast performed a beautiful tribute to Prince

“A Different World” Cast Greeted To Their Own Theme Song At Norfolk State

Chicago Should Not Have Needed The Police Accountability Report

Reflections on Prince, the Icon, the Artist, the Purple One Forever

Zoe Saldana Speaks On Playing Nina Simone And How She Got The Role

Why I Wish “The Mindy Project” Was Cancelled

Ben Carson Would Rather Put Harriet Tubman on the $2 Bill

Killer of Black Transgender Woman, Islan Nettles, Sentenced to 12 Years

Here’s What is Happening with Beyoncé’s Newest Album

Meet the Black Woman Architect Behind the New Smithsonian Museum

In 2016, UVA Medical Students Think Blacks Feel Less Pain Than Whites

‘Sleepy Hollow’ died along with Abbie Mills

What They Really Mean When They Call Black Hair ‘Unprofessional’

24-Year-Old Chicagoan Launches Scholarship Fund For High School Students

HBCU Gets $900 Million Grant to Stem HIV Infections

Rappers Talk Mental Illness and Depression with VICE

Oprah Helps Alvin Ailey Dancer with Dream of a Lifetime

Blacks More Likely to Get Arrested for Dealing Drugs than Whites Who Do Drugs More Often

‘Empire’ Star Bryshere Gray Talks Mental Health in Philadelphia

Chicago Police Have Been Spying on Activists Since 2014 Or Maybe Longer

10-year-old Dismantles the Classist U.S. Criminal Justice System

The Gentrification at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Projects Could Happen Anywhere

Shea Moisture’s First Commercial Tackles the Implicit Racism of Beauty Aisles

‘2 Dope Queens’ Produce A Podcast About Being Exactly That

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