Keke Palmer has landed her own daytime talk show on BET. The 20-year-old actress will become the youngest talk show host in TV history when she takes on The Keke Palmer Project (working title).
Matters of race will forever be an interesting topic to me. I will love and be frustrated by racial matters as it educates me and helps further shape my perception of others and the representations of myself. I was reluctant to see the movie “Noah” a biblical remake of the popular story about the […]
The following article was originally posted in the New York Times. It was written by the publication’s editorial board. By: The Editorial Board Federal investigators have opened an inquiry into the tragic case of a high school student in Bastrop County, Tex., who suffered severe brain damage and nearly died last fall after a deputy […]
Marcus Gardley is taking his healing to the stage. In a series of plays, the 36-year-old playwright is exercising his freedom of expression by creating satirical works about black men and prisons.
“Skirts on Rappers?” “Is this the beginning of the end?” ” Get outta here with that mess!” are the typical responses to the many articles and individual posts on my friends social media networks about the demasculization of rappers concerning their wardrobe choices.
For a third time, Senate Republicans blocked a vote that would open debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act. The act would hold employers more accountable for wage discrimination against women.
NFL star Colin Kaepernick is currently being investigated for a possible sexual assault in Miami. The accuser claims the alleged incident took place at a residence at the Viceroy Hotel on April 1.
Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” opens Thursday night in New York City. The musical is based on the Cotton Club, a New York nightclub based in Harlem back in the early 20th century. Despite the club being rooted in African American history, Allen hired no black actors for the production.
Derrick Gordon, a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts, has become the first openly gay player in men’s Division I college basketball. A few days ago, Gordon came out to his family and teammates. He has now gone public with his sexuality.
Reverend Al Sharpton is downplaying claims that he served as an informant for the FBI. The claims originally surfaced via The Smoking Gun, which stated that Sharpton worked as a mob informant for the FBI in the 1980s.
Lawyers defending a Detroit man who fatally shot a young, unarmed woman on his porch last year are signaling that the victim’s lifestyle should be fair game. Theodore Wafer was charged with second-degree murder after killing Renisha McBride. He has claimed self-defense.
The family of a teenage boy who was killed after getting caught in his girlfriend’s bedroom wants the girl charged. Johran McCormick was shot and killed by his girlfriend’s father on March 13.
