It is a rare piece of long-form journalism that breaks the internet. But that’s exactly what happened when Ta-Nehisi…

Melanin. Color. Texture. Funk. Freedom. Afropunk, the annual music and arts festival going since 2005, is not free…

Looks like there is still good in this going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-early world we now find ourselves in.

Social media continues to rip the mask off white supremacy. This time, a police chief for a small town in Oklahoma…

I didn’t have $100 for this so-called fight, and I kinda forbade asked my husband not to order it. Therefore, I got…

Netflix and chill? More like Netflix and bake, now that the company has introduced a new line of cannabis strains…

Is he an ally-hero like Heather Heyer, putting it down for the cause? Or is he an agent provocateur trying to pin…

Hands down, the sure-shot hit of the summer is “Bodak Yellow,” by Bronx, N.Y., rapper Cardi B, now officially in the…

Recently, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was crowned some kind of racist folk hero, keeper of the Barack Obama Birther theory…

Nearly 1,000 people showed up at the New York City headquarters of the National Football League Wednesday in support…

Howard University announced today that it was appointing ex-FBI Chief James Comey as this year’s opening convocation…

The Pennsylvania state university system has agreed to forgive $30 million in loans to Cheyney University, if it…

Every day, since Heather Heyer lost her life at the hands of white supremacists, and our president abdicated his…

Benjamin Todd Jealous first made a national name for himself in 2008 when, at age 35, he became the youngest leader…

Some have confused Colin Kaepernick’s stance against police violence with an edict against police.

An 11-year-old New York City girl—who was cruelly pranked by her “friends” with a so-called Hot-Water Challenge—left…

Two police officers in Kissimmee, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, have died after a shootout Friday night.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a video is worth a thousand laughs.

This should be an interesting football season—and year, for that matter—since many American institutions are messily…

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be immortalized at the National Museum of African American History and…