Afropunk is where melanin and metal music collide.
Earlier this month, Baltimore County police tried to serve a black mother with an arrest warrant for failing to…
On Saturday, a little after 10 p.m., three inmates—Willie E. Ethridge, 34; Michael Elliot, 24; and Walshea Mitchell,…
For some years now, MTV has largely relied on nostalgia and the promise of returning to what used to make its Video…
San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick chose last Friday to remind America that black lives matter.…
Failing schools that service low-income black kids will continue to get away with egregious levels of educational…
In Soul Food, Big Mama had to come to the realization that all those Sunday dinners had led her to develop what many…
Before Harriet Tubman comes through on your favorite $20 back, the American icon, born Araminta Ross, will be…
Tennies, sneakers, runners. Whatever you call them, kids today are into them. And even if they’re not, everyone…
This is the story of three men of note and how their lives intersected over the tragic death of a 32-year-old mother…
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Afrofuturism can be credited to literary greats like Octavia Butler and visual artists like Basquiat. These artists…
Apparently it is only white men who can express themselves passionately and not be knocked for it (see Bill Maher,…
A 10th-grade student in Arizona who arrived at her high school picture day in a “Black Lives Matter” T-shirt was…
The Los Angeles Police Department says it will create a program to assist the families of people killed during…
Muskogee, Okla., police are investigating a pepper-spray incident involving an 84-year-old woman in her home.
They’re taking George Curry back to Alabama for burial. I assume that’s what he wanted. He died suddenly of a heart…
Twenty-five years ago this summer, black America had to deal with a very serious allegation: that boxing powerhouse…
Like we always do at this time (Kanye voice), we back, y’all! More importantly, I'm back, y'all, with two co-workers…