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Despite its proximity to the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland has been the center of economic despair and urban blight since riots rolled…

A historic win has led to a typical display of disrespect in the small town of Parma, Missouri. On Tuesday, former city clerk Tyus Byrd…

Racism is a nuisance, isn’t it? It’s almost as if everywhere we turn, it rears it’s ugly head. When was the last time you went through a week without hearing or seeing or experiencing some negativity because of the racist culture that we live in? You can barely go through a news cycle without hearing […]

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Cultural appropriation, while not new, has taken center stage in national conversations in past months, with the onslaught of White mainstream musicians adopting the fashion,…

Sarah Adelia Graves, 22 and Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21 were sentenced to five and eight years, respectively, for the brutal murder of Black man, James Craig Anderson. These two women were part of a 10-person group who drove around Jackson, Mississippi in search of Black people to attack. They found Anderson on June 26, 2011. […]

Brandy and Fantasia are being called before the court to answer questions about why they really cut ties with their former publicist Courtney Barnes. They’ll come face-to-face with their former rep as witnesses in his discrimination case against Sony Music, TheJasmineBrand.com reports. He’s accusing the company of firing him from the label because he’s Black. […]

From a young age, I, like many Black girls, have had to defend my hair. As a child, I didn’t like my hair. I don’t remember when this started, but I do recall countless hours spent screaming as my thick, full, curly west African hair was being done in cornrows of different styles, using hair […]

Cosmo has issued an apology for that fashion suicide moment from January where they created 21 Beauty Trends That Need To Die In 2015, featuring trends they wanted to “kill” next to trends that were considered “gorgeous.” In the gallery of 21 side-by-side photos, there were four photos that displayed Black women with “RIP” across the […]

Sisters are doing it for themselves! No, really. The advances in technology have allowed for the young and ambitious to develop their own brands online and that’s exactly what Andrea Lewis has done on YouTube. The actress (who starred as Hazel Aden in “Degrassi”) has created her own web series called “Black Actress” as a […]

Reverend Samuel Mosteller, longtime president of the Georgia Southern Christian Leadership Conference (which was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) said that Black families should be exercising their Second Amendment right, in response to all the violent and tragic police shootings claiming the lives of several unarmed Black men and children. “You know, the […]

A noose found hanging from a tree on Duke University’s campus early Wednesday has prompted an investigation, school officials say. According to CBS, Vice President for…

We tend to have a Black-White binary of race conversations in the United States, so let’s expand our minds to be more inclusive. Casual racism is something that almost all people of color face. It can be in the form of microaggressions, subconscious snap judgments, or even the way one’s body moves or is used […]