Editor’s note: During Black History Month the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life,…

Communism! Still scary, apparently.

We got just a … little … bit … closer to Issa Rae’s becoming a reality on our premium cable when we learned that HBO …

In a week when magazine covers featuring black women—and starring the world’s worst Kerry Washington impersonator—wen…

For reasons not quite known, ex-Scandal star Columbus Short threatened to “murk”—aka murder—actor Jamie Foxx while…

On Wednesday, news spread far and wide that music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs didn’t want his adopted son, Quincy, to…

Actress Kerry Washington’s InStyle cover dropped Wednesday to the sound of head-scratching across social media. In…

Born of stars but seemingly star-crossed, 21-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown has spent her entire life in the…

Does love know no color?

Martin Luther King Jr. had more than “a dream,” but you might not notice that on Monday during observances for his…

How do you solve a problem like the King kids?

Have you ever had a feeling that you knew something was terrible, but you loved it anyway? Like the extra-greasy…

For some, 2014 was made of win. Success was found both through hard work and happy accident. These beings shone the…

Some of us will be welcoming the new year more than others—namely those of us for whom 2014 was a complete bust. It…

Remember that time actor Mark Wahlberg punched a man in the eye so hard, he partially blinded him forever?

There was video. The move was banned and Eric Garner’s death was ruled a homicide.

Getting in the black got a bit harder for some retailers this holiday season, thanks to everyone from the retailers…

America isn’t an easy country.

It’s your right to vote. So why does our society seem not to want you to use it?

Sex!