Although I am loath to compare the incomparable Serena Williams to any animal besides perhaps a black panther with…

GirlTrek, the largest national public health nonprofit and movement for black women and girls, continues to offer a…

For whatever issues they have (and there are many: colonialism, imperialism, Brexit, etc.) one thing that I will…

This week, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ordered a lockdown of its entire 47,000-person-prison system…

Perhaps not coincidentally during a #NationalPrisonStrike2018, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Friday…

Jemele Hill, a black woman who remained so while on television, had a rough go of it at ESPN in the fallout of…

I’m of the contention that we should generally be judged or even rated as humans by the best—and not worst—thing…

It looks as if the jaws of justice are slowly, but steadily squeezing the breath out of Donald “Can’t Keep It in…

The indignantly distressed former PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley is not faring well in his legal battle against…

In what can only be hailed as a hard-fought victory against blatant voter suppression, on Friday, a rural Georgia…

Many of us were horrified (and beyond furious) when we heard news of a white man urinating on a black girl child and…

Hip-hop has had a long and fraught history with law enforcement because the communities that spawned the genre have…

It begins with piano riffs and drum. Prince’s dulcet falsetto pours out the first verse, then drops a register for…

In what strikes many as odd, soul singer Aretha Franklin died without a will.

Tiffany Haddish and Cardi B are going neck and neck for the started-from-the-bottom-now-we-heah year.

Here’s a question: If the Confederate flag has nothing to do with racism, and it’s all about Southern pride and…

Like most of us, Michael McGlockton became familiar with Florida’s “stand your ground” law in 2012 when 17-year-old…

We’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating—black people can’t rid white America of its cancerous racism—that’s…

Pastor Harris is referring to 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick, who was fatally shot in the back after running from…

As the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right rally approaches, many still cannot wrap…