Voices

“Shots Fired at Capitol Hill” was stamped boldly on the TV screen yesterday and immediately I felt something wasn’t quite right. I sat frozen at my desk, typing away at the details of the attack on Capitol Hill At first, all we knew was that there were shots fired and they were heard around the […]

The government is still currently shutdown and we’re starting to feel the affects of the standoff between the Democrats and Republicans who are far too stubborn to bend on their views of funding for the government. Because of the shutdown, many government services and agencies are closed, suspended or otherwise impacted. In short, this isn’t […]

“I met a guy. I made a sandwich. I started a blog. And I enraged feminists everywhere,” the New York Post editor and 300 Sandwiches blog founder, Stephanie Smith admitted after sharing her story of making 300 sandwiches for her boyfriend, bringing her closer to getting a ring on it. Must Read: 25 Of The […]

“She’s running, but she doesn’t know it yet,” a close friend of Clinton’s recently told New York Magazine. It’s like a force of history. It’s inexorable, it’s gravitational. I think she actually believes she has more say in it than she actually does.” Hillary Rodham Clinton recently sat down with New York Magazine for their probing […]

In light of the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed teen, Trayvon Martin, we’ve decided to continue the fight for justice with our #YourLifeMatters campaign. With #YLM, we are asking celebrities to use their elevated platform to remind young men of color that their lives matter. Stars like LaLa […]

When opinion writers from The NY Times decide to write about “twerking,” in a satirical essay riddled with a few questionable one liners, Black people get angry. Not just regular angry, but the type of angry that boldly @’s you on Twitter, demanding an explanation of words strung together for a powerfully painful sentence like […]

Sometimes, as a writer, I get a little sick of having to report the repeated and desensitized usage of racism that plagues our society. I’ve been feeling like our world is regressing when it comes to the color lines that seem to get bolder. A young Black man gets shot and killed by a White […]

The Nigerian Senate has recently decided that young girls who are actually developed, even if they’re under 10, can be married as long as their parents and potential husbands are fine with the child being married. It’s being reported that Nigeria’s upper chamber had reached a resolution to alter Section 29 (a) of the proposed […]