We are starting to become a nation of excuses. A nation that shoots first and then looks through your personnel file…
Paul Gardullo lifted an iron ballast from a Portuguese slave ship that sank in 1794 out of a crate Wednesday morning…
The past few weeks have been rough. We are dying daily, and yet many of you have been sound asleep. You saw Mike…
It has been less than a week since the “newsplosion” of the police-shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando…
“Who polices the woke?” The question caught me off guard.
Does the world need a saved version of The Real?
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, waded into the national crisis of race, democracy…
I come from a broken home. My parents were married for a time, but memories of my father in the house are few and…
Why does my boyfriend straighten up when I basically say, “I’m ending this”? I’ve noticed that when I’m silent or…
Who run the world? Girls.
On Monday, Tim Duncan ended his career much the way he played: quietly. He didn't announce that he was leaving at…
“In any type of writing program, they say to write about what you know,” John Singleton told Walter Mosley during a…
Twenty-five years ago, Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton's movie about life in South Central Los Angeles,…
A day after rallies around the country to protest the slayings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling at the hands…
The political climate had already incubated into the most racially flammable presidential election cycle in recent…
If you’re anything like me, the events that have unfolded over the past 72 hours have been at best astonishing and…
Social media giveth—truth, laughs, info—and it taketh away—jobs, reputation, dignity.
Charles Ogletree, author, activist and Harvard law professor, who taught both Barack and Michelle Obama, revealed…
Despite the fact that five police officers were killed in Dallas on Thursday, protests over the deaths of…
Chaka Khan, one of our national treasures, canceled her concert at the California State Fair two days before her…