After what seems like years of waiting (though it turned out to be months), Harlem legend Dapper Dan has finally…

Michigan State University will receive nearly $1.5 million to create a new online database that will allow folks to…

After being unceremoniously canceled by PBS in December amid sexual-misconduct allegations, author and talk show…

“I personally don’t like that word and just avoid it in general,” says Johan, the co-creator and arranger of Yeethove…

Erica Garner’s short life was marked by her unbridled, studied passion for justice. And that passion, that pain,…

After seeing shots of the little boy in that heinous H&M shirt that declared him the “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle,”

Although it was all-black everything—from the carpet to the attire to Oprah Winfrey’s black-ass table—black actors…

I guess, between the millions in soft money reportedly being yanked from under him and the biggest coattails he’s…

The Winter Olympics may just finally be worth watching, because heretofore, the international sports competition has…

According to an indictment handed down on Friday, police in Troy, N.Y., have revealed a motive in the quadruple…

We gone be aiight. ... Especially when Kendrick Lamar Duckworth performs the halftime show for the College Football…

Old Davey Clarke might wanna watch his mouth (or keyboard fingers).

A 24-year-old cop went berserk on a New York City couple after they got into a car accident with him this week.

Billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic donor Tom Steyer says he purchased a copy of author Michael Wolff’s…

The old adage “When you point the finger, you have three pointing back at you” rang true in the United Nations on…

Essence Communications Inc., the 48-year-old mutliplatform brand that owns Essence magazine and the annual Essence…

Julia Nepper was just 12 years old when she began attending community college in Wilmington, N.C.

Another proud bigot is going to run for national office. Whooppeee.

When R&B songstress Anita Baker hit the scene in the mid-’80s, it was as if we didn’t know what we’d been missing.…

Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who clearly owes his slim victory over accused pedophile Roy Moore to the…