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The family of Olympic track and field legend Jesse Owens is one step closer in their fight to once again rename a Chicago school after him. The building had been named after Owens since 1980, and the family called the change “disrespectful.”

The woman killed yesterday after a high speed chase through the nation’s capital suffered from post-partum depression. Miriam Carey, 34, died after police shot her on the scene.

Gabby Douglas has accomplished a lot in her short, yet very exciting life. The Olympic gold medalist has two books out based on her life, and soon she’ll have a film under her belt.

The NAACP has existed for 104 years, and not once has a woman held the position of President.
But in the wake of Ben Jealous’ resignation, one online petition is hoping to change that fact.

George Zimmerman, posing with a fan at the gun factory that manufactured the pistol he used to kill Trayvon Martin   In news that’s not shocking to anyone with half a brain, George Zimmerman and his gun, was involved in another altercation. What is surprising, is this time he was actually taken into custody. This is after Zimmerman’s […]

This bears repeating: Black women are awesome. In a few weeks–actually, in a few days–if you asked someone who Antoinette Tuff is, there is a chance that the response will be, “The lone woman MC named in Kendrick Lamar’s verse,” or something else equally silly and clueless. Even though we will, we shouldn’t forget Antoinette Tuff’s […]

Robin Thicke, along with producer Pharell Williams and T.I. have filed suit against the family of Marvin Gaye to protect their massive summer hit “Blurred Lines.” The Gaye estate contends that Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” sounds way too similar to the Gaye classic “Got to Give It Up.”

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly (Photo by HAGEN FOR NEWS)     httpv://youtu.be/EhHYN7uw3AM Can somebody tell Mayor Bloomberg that Black and Brown people don’t need another, “White Savior“? Bloomberg wants us to believe his racist Stop and Frisk policy, that was just smacked down by a Federal Judge, is for […]

Issa Rae is reportedly collaborating with Larry Wilson on a HBO comedy series.

A Virginia rapper named Twain Gotti has been arrested in connection to a double homicide after allegedly rapping about it.

Chicago’s own Rhymefest and Kanye West are using their skills and resources to bring a free music writing program to youth on the South Side of Chicago.

Like the rest of America my newsfeed, tumblr, twitter, instagram etc have been filled with people’s opinion on Sunday’s Zimmerman verdict. And most of the response has been pro-Trayvon (I guess I pick my friends wisely). There have been tons of pictures of people at rallies, impassioned statuses about how unfair the verdict was, and […]