The character of Toine Wilkins, a transgender police officer on OWN’s critically acclaimed series Queen Sugar, is…

In more terrible news for the embattled Rikers Island jail, New York City (really, taxpayers who live or work in New…

The Carmichael Show, the quirky, timely, thought-provoking sitcom starring Jerrod Carmichael, will be no more after…

Substance abuse affects us all, even those of us who ascend to the highest heights, apparently.

Will white folk forgive the craven racial-sexual tragedy that was O.J. Simpson, a man deified, deracialized and…

The city of Chicago is set to pay out yet more money to yet another victim of its abusive police force—the same city…

Around here in Nerdlandia (them more than me), we love comic books, Marvel reboots and some other weird shit. I…

No, we are talking about the new personal assistant selected by Queen Elizabeth Ii: the first black equerry in…

If you think the n-word is an American tradition/phenomenon/slur, think again. A British lawmaker has been suspended…

On Friday morning, a video was floating around cyberspace in which a plainclothes police officer in New Jersey was…

Looks like Mel B got the same treatment as Mary J. Blige, but a little worse.

A New York City mother who allowed her boyfriend to viciously beat her 6-year-old son, Zymere Perkins, to death, has…

We know that the largest number of black people in the Western Hemisphere— and the most outside of Africa—live in…

Lawd a mussy, I must be getting old, because I think I’ve seen it all. At a recent Ku Klux Klan rally in…

Not sure what the deal in Queensbridge is, but someone or someones may have gotten their wish to destroy a mural of…

I can’t roll my eyes hard enough over this one. Miss South Africa has sparked the ire of the internet after images…

Nelsan Ellis, the actor best known for his portrayal of the flamboyant character Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s True…

He’s baaaaack. And not a moment too soon. Former President Barack Obama is coming around after about six months of…

Rob Kardashian continues to get the (deserved) pile-on for spilling all the tea on Blac Chyna—including that she may…

Kenya Moore is slowly, surely trotting out her new husband, businessman Marc Daly, for all the world to see.