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The Obamas have been involved in politics for a long time. A major perk of which is a surplus of interns eager to take care of day-to-day tasks and make their lives a little bit easier while also gaining a wealth of job experience. Who said anything about that stopping now?

It was recently reported that Carolyn Bryant admitted that she lied when she accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of physically and verbally assaulting her in Mississippi roughly 60 years ago. With this newfound information, some of Till’s relatives are hoping a new investigation could lead to closure. 

It’s a standard tradition for championship teams to visit the sitting President of the United States at the White House and pose for a photo. They often award him with his very own jersey. But the United States hasn’t ever had a president like Donald Trump and tradition’s likely to get thrown out of the […]

Tamron Hall has been a part of the NBC family for 10 years. Now, that relationship has come to an end. The news came less than a week after NBC announced that Megyn Kelly would be coming to host an hour of the Today Show, essentially replacing Hall and her co-anchor Al Roker, according to People.

Fox News has declined to renew the contract of one of their most controversial voices and vocal Trump supporters – Stacey Dash. 

President Obama’s last days in office have clocked down to his last hours. Before he leaves, he’s making sure he gets in some final executive orders, including a final batch of commutations and taking care of his long-time supporters. CNN reports that senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and National Security Adviser Susan Rice were among more than 100 of […]

It’ll probably be a while before the world’s thrown back into debates over relationships with another season of Insecure. But Issa Rae, who starred in and created the series, won’t leave fans without any entertainment. Issa Rae and Jussie Smolett (Empire) will serve as executive producers for a new web series entitled Giants. 

Many of us make New Year’s resolutions to read a book a week or once per month. And, if you are anything like me, you want those books to come from Black authors. Now, a company called Noir Reads is making meeting those goals all the more possible by delivering books from the Black Diaspora […]

One of the central issues on the Democratic platform is making free college education a reality. The national student loan debt is already massive and doesn’t look to disappear anytime soon, and a large part of that is because college tuition prices are only going up. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, who some see as a […]

Unfortunately, we should now accept that Donald Trump will be President of the United States come January 20, 2017 (over a month later I’m still experiencing some disbelief in this truth). But what I won’t accept are his disingenuous attempts to be inclusive and to work for Black people.

Wali Camara, a deli worker at A&M Deli Grocery in the Bronx, was shot and killed with a NYPD officer’s pistol on Aug. 9. But the person pulling the trigger wasn’t an officer. It was a panhandler that took the officer’s gun out of his holster and fired 15 rounds. Camara’s family is now suing New […]

“Why do we accept forms of security that are rooted in violence?” – Angela Davis, Lecture at University of Chicago November 2016 When I first learned of prison abolition it was from Angela Davis during a lecture she gave at my college campus in 2009. The concept of prison abolition seemed so large and out […]