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On Saturday, 20-year-old Douglas won the American Cup at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, which was her first gold since winning the Olympic all-around in London in 2012. There have only been six American women who have gone on to compete in two Olympic competitions since 1980. Thus far, the only woman who has […]

The most endearing thing about President Barack Obama doesn’t have anything to do with him directly. It’s actually his family, especially his wife, Michelle Obama. Over the past few years, the First Lady has danced with kids in the White House and even made an appearance on popular kids shows. If you were somehow under the belief […]

Gospel music has been an important part of America’s backbone for as far back as one could go. Even so, up until recently, one couldn’t get a bachelor’s degree in gospel performance until very recently, when Nyack College in New York became the first school to offer it as a major.

On Tuesday, we learned that the embattled biopic loosely based on Nina Simone’s life, simply called Nina, will be released on April 22. On Wednesday, the trailer was released. And, while all the sentiments against Zoe Saldana’s blackface (or “mud face”) and fake accent are correct, there’s a bigger reason why Saldana never should have […]

This presidential election season has consistently brought up the conversation of race, as it should, and right now, the conversation has turned into a debate, thanks to the award-winning poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou.

On March 3, 2016, Berta Caceres, the coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (COPIHN) was killed by unknown assailants around 1:00am local time in her home in La Esperanza in the western province of Intibucá.

For the first time in a while a story about black people and police worth celebrating broke. The only catch is it’s about a movie. TMZ reports that Bad Boys 3, the next installment in the cop series starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, is pretty much a done deal.

Black people only made up around nine percent of the population in the city of Los Angeles. But data recently released by the LAPD in an effort to be fully transparent revealed that 35 percent of the people they shot from 2011 to 2015 were black.

This is not the movement of our grandparents or even our parents. While many in the Baby Boomer generation were concerned with respectability in their politics, our generation is primarily concerned with liberation for all — even those of us who are considered “unrespectable.” The Black Youth Project and BYP100 came together to highlight what […]

Spotify has introduced new mapping software that suggests hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the entire world, according to The Independent.

A march was held in Raleigh, North Carolina after a 24-year-old man was reportedly shot in the back by police. A witness claims Akiel Denkins was being chased by officer D.C. Twiddy when the officer fell while hopping a fence and opened fire at a fleeing Denkins. Denkins died shortly thereafter.

It’s safe to say that Hillary Clinton is in a close enough race for the presidency that she can’t really afford to dismiss potential voters – unless her aim is to steal some away from the sideshow taking place on the other side of party lines. But that’s not what you’d think her goal was […]