7/31/2014 - The Universal "He Fine"/"He Ain't Shit" Matrix

7/31/2014 - Black and Hispanic Journalist Associations Will Have Joint Convention in 2016!

7/31/2014 - Katy ‘the Queen of Cultural Appropriation’ Perry Is at It Again

7/31/2014 - Calif. Playhouse Struggles to Cast Black Male Roles for Ragtime

7/31/2014 - Theodore Wafer’s Defense Team Calls Medical Examiner in Murder Trial

7/31/2014 - Ray Rice Publicly Apologizes to Wife, Says Domestic Violence Is Inexcusable 

7/31/2014 - Upstate NY Police Label Alleged Shooting Suspect a ‘Dark Negro’

7/31/2014 - Dear Men: It’s Not Hip-Hop’s Body, It’s Nicki Minaj’s Body

7/31/2014 - Contentious Confrontation: House Votes To Sue President Obama

7/31/2014 - Transgender Teen Stabbed on DC Metro

7/31/2014 - Columbus Short Is a Wanted Man

7/31/2014 - House Votes to Sue President; Obama Tells Them to ‘Stop Hating’

7/31/2014 - Shit Bougie Black People Love: 16. Day Parties

7/31/2014 - Tell Me More About the Return of the White-Guy Era in Broadcast Media

7/31/2014 - Black Community Leaders in Calif. Protest White Cultural-Studies Teacher

7/31/2014 - US’ Oldest Private Black University Is in Trouble 

7/31/2014 - Alicia Keys Announces 2nd Pregnancy on Instagram

7/31/2014 - Get on Up: The Rage and Genius of James Brown

7/31/2014 - United in Complexion and Love, but a Culture Apart

7/31/2014 - An Ode To Felicia A. O'Dell And All The Black Dramatics We Love

7/30/2014 - Watch: No Black Person Is Ugly, By Lil B (The BasedGod)

7/30/2014 - True Life: My "Twitter Friends" Are My Real Friends Too

7/30/2014 - Georgia Makes History With 5 Black Women on Its Statewide Ballot

7/30/2014 - Will More Black Democratic Political Staffers Shift the Midterms’ Outcome?

7/30/2014 - Renisha McBride’s Whereabouts and Gathering of Evidence Take Stage in Trial

7/30/2014 - The James Brown Effect

7/30/2014 - A Meme to Mock? No Way. I See a Black Woman’s Audacious and All-Too-Rare Confidence

7/30/2014 - Kim Kardashian Klaps Back At Adrienne Bailon, Internet Asks: "So, Where's The Sex Tape?"

7/30/2014 - 8-Year-Old Detroit Boy Fatally Shot While Sleeping

7/30/2014 - New Edition Sued by Former Managers for $500,000

7/30/2014 - Report: Drug Smuggling Aided by Correction Officers at Rikers Island Jail

7/30/2014 - That Time Dr. Beverly Tatum Shared A Perfect Example Of White Privilege

7/30/2014 - Jamie Foxx to Portray Mike Tyson in Biopic

7/30/2014 - ESPN Suspends Stephen A. Smith for Domestic Violence Comments

7/30/2014 - Promoting Diversity in Your Workplace Might Cost You 

7/30/2014 - Man Says Angry UPS Driver Gave Him a Noose Made From Packing Materials

7/30/2014 - Sierra Leone Ebola Doctor Succumbs to Deadly Virus 

7/30/2014 - NABJ Convention Kicks Off in Boston; Here’s What You Need to Know

7/30/2014 - Video: Watch a Supercut of Every Time Samuel L. Jackson Said ‘Motherf--ker’ in a Movie

7/30/2014 - Why Do Black People Have So Many Cousins?

7/29/2014 - My Bobby Shmurda Problem (Hint: HE CAN'T F*CKING RAP!!!)

7/29/2014 - Dance Dance Revolution: My Love Affair with Dance Movies

7/29/2014 - 2 Armed Older Men Rob Chicago Clinic of Viagra

7/29/2014 - The Excitement of Exploration: Family Fun in the USVI

7/29/2014 - R. Kelly Is Dropped From Music Festival After Complaints

7/29/2014 - Kendrick Johnson’s Parents Sue Georgia School Board for Wrongful Death

7/29/2014 - Shelly Sterling Wins Right to Sell Los Angeles Clippers to Former Microsoft CEO

7/29/2014 - Meet Michele Roberts: 1st Woman To Head Pro Sports Union. Professional Bad-Ass

7/29/2014 - Zane’s Addicted Trailer Is Hot and Steamy

7/29/2014 - We Don’t Take Violence Against Black Women Seriously—So Why Should the NFL?

7/29/2014 - The Thing About Relationship Panels

7/29/2014 - 16-Year-Old Female Nigerian Weightlifter Wins Gold, Then Fails Drug Test 

7/29/2014 - 5 Things You Should Know About the New Ebola Crisis

7/29/2014 - Pastor Running for Congress Gets Strip Club’s Endorsement 

7/29/2014 - Whoopi Goldberg Defends Stephen A. Smith’s Comments: If You Hit a Man, Don’t Be Surprised if He Hits Back

7/29/2014 - Uber Driver Faces Charges in Sexual Assault of Passenger

7/29/2014 - We Stand With Communities of Color in the Fight for Carbon Pollution Standards

7/29/2014 - 7 Tips for Surviving a Black Family Reunion  

7/29/2014 - A Black Man’s Head Protects Sanctity of Ancient Italian Temple

7/28/2014 - Pregnant Woman Allegedly Put in Choke Hold by NYPD Officer      

7/28/2014 - The ‘Woman in Black’ Is a Social Media Mystery

7/28/2014 - Ray Rice, Stephen A. Smith and the Hypocrisy of Sports

7/28/2014 - Texas Man Who Overpaid Child Support Is Released From Prison 

7/28/2014 - Stephen A. Smith Apologizes for Domestic Violence Remarks

7/28/2014 - Formerly Homeless Student Selling Handwritten Letter From Obama for Tuition 

7/28/2014 - Boko Haram Abducts Wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister

7/28/2014 - Call for Submissions: The Root Wants Your Story

7/28/2014 - Times Square Spider-Man in Web of Trouble 

7/28/2014 - No ‘Rainbow Families’: Canadian Fertility Clinic Refuses to Match White Patients With Nonwhite Donors 

7/28/2014 - Aretha Franklin Had Beef With Johnny Rockets Employee Over D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T

7/28/2014 - Let’s Stop Describing Ourselves as ‘Minorities’

7/28/2014 - Were There Black Pirates? 

7/28/2014 - How Media Missed That Black Women Do ‘Have It All’

7/27/2014 - 10 Things The NFL Cares Even Less About Than It Cares About Women

7/27/2014 - 500 ‘Young African Leaders’ to Meet With Obama 

7/27/2014 - Is ‘Acting White’ an ‘Overstated’ Idea?

7/27/2014 - Watch: Ex-Fla. School Bus Driver Hurls Racist Rant at Neighbor and Kids

7/27/2014 - Nigeria Ebola Death Raises Fears Disease Can Spread by Air Travel

7/27/2014 - Eric Garner Was Not ‘a Violent Man,’ Says

7/27/2014 - Shanesha Taylor Left Sons in Car ‘in Moment of Desperation’

7/27/2014 - HIV-Positive for 20-Plus Years: ‘Not Easy, but I’m One of the Lucky Ones’

7/27/2014 - Kanye Is Boring Now

7/26/2014 - Is ‘Acting White’ an ‘Overstated’ Idea?  

7/26/2014 - Watch: NYPD Cop on Desk Duty After Allegedly Stomping Suspect

7/26/2014 - Eric Garner’s Widow Calls for Civil Rights Probe

7/26/2014 - Aide: White House Taking Impeachment Threat Seriously

7/26/2014 - The Catch Up: What You Missed This Week In Social Media Land

7/26/2014 - US Senator Touts Fed Gun Intelligence Center in Chicago

7/26/2014 - ‘Mississippi Baby’ Still Represents Hope—and Heroism—for AIDS Community  

7/26/2014 - Taking America’s Art History to the Streets 

7/25/2014 - Watch Stephen A. Smith Mansplain Domestic Violence 

7/25/2014 - HBCUs Grapple With Uncertainty

7/25/2014 - Black GOP Campaign Worker Fired Over Comment About ‘White Privilege’

7/25/2014 - Fla. Police Arrest Woman Who Left 5 Kids in Hot Car to Get Job Application

7/25/2014 - What Did We Learn From Robin Thicke?

7/25/2014 - Husband Makes Spreadsheet of Wife’s Excuses for Not Having Sex

7/25/2014 - Fifty Shades of Bey*

7/25/2014 - Renisha McBride Shooter Claims He Didn’t Know Gun Was Loaded

7/25/2014 - Audra McDonald Talks About Suicide Attempt: ‘I Tried to Slit My Wrist’

7/25/2014 - Chicago Teen Arrested in Case of 11-Year-Old Killed at Slumber Party

7/25/2014 - Why I Spoke to This Year’s Urban League Convention

7/25/2014 - Christian Groups Aren’t Happy With Black Jesus

7/25/2014 - Blacks Fined Disproportionately for Publicly Smoking Pot in Seattle

7/25/2014 - Why Won’t More Wealthy Black Celebs Dig Deeper in Their Wallets?

7/25/2014 - The Bad Best Friend Is Back With a Shocker Update to Her Tale of Betrayal

7/25/2014 - What if the Video of Eric Garner’s Choke Hold Didn’t Exist?

7/25/2014 - Was My Great-Grandfather Part of Civil War History?

7/25/2014 - VSB Roundtable: Is It Okay To Like Your Own Pictures?

7/24/2014 - Michelle Obama: The Camera Loves Her

7/24/2014 - 15 Slang Terms and How to Use Them in a Sentence  

7/24/2014 - 106-Year-Old Black DC Church to Be Sold to Developer 

7/24/2014 - Ray Rice Receives 2-Game Suspension for Assault; Outrage Is Expressed on Social Media

7/24/2014 - ‘Shopping While Black’ Vine User Rashid Polo: If Profiling Keeps Happening, I’ll Have to Record It

7/24/2014 - Canadians Step In to Help Detroit During Water-Shutoff Crisis

7/24/2014 - VSB Events: Love Jones Cafe (7/28) | REMINSCE (8/2) | Naturalista Hair Show (8/3)

7/24/2014 - Video Surfaces of 2nd Man Apparently Choked by NYPD

7/24/2014 - GET ON UP Advanced Screening Passes (Washington, DC | Tuesday, July 29)

7/24/2014 - Spike Lee’s Mashup Video of Eric Garner and Radio Raheem Goes Viral

7/24/2014 - Renisha McBride Shooting Trial Begins in Detroit

7/24/2014 - Study: Black Women Make Only 64 Cents for Every Dollar White Men Earn

7/24/2014 - Heroic Ebola Doctor Contracts Lethal Virus 

7/24/2014 - Mother Who Lost Her 11-Year-Old to Stray Bullet at 1st Sleepover Speaks

7/24/2014 - Time Tried to Explain the Word ‘Bae’ and Twitter Went in With #TimeTitles

7/24/2014 - Leaders Like Ken Noble Remind Us of the Value of Affirmative Action  

7/24/2014 - A Sudden Push for Felon Voting Rights in a Most Unlikely Place

7/24/2014 - All the Times Eric Holder Kept It Completely 100

7/24/2014 - Old "Bae" Becomes New Flavor For Whites

7/23/2014 - From Real Housewives to Love & Hip-Hop, Now Reality TV Takes on BAPs 

7/23/2014 - Marissa Alexander Is Denied New Hearing; Still Faces 60 Years in Prison

7/23/2014 - Singing Obstetrician Welcomes Newborn Babies to the World

7/23/2014 - Watching "Tha Crossroads” As An Adult

7/23/2014 - Are Immigrant Children Our Moral Responsibility? 

7/23/2014 - Michael Rapaport Calls Spike Lee a ‘S--t Stain’ Over Gentrification Comments

7/23/2014 - LA Clippers Player Matt Barnes Turns to Social Media to Catch Aunt’s Killer

7/23/2014 - Cissy Houston Slams Lifetime Biopic About Whitney Houston

7/23/2014 - Blue Wall of Silence and Support for the Officers Involved in the Death of Eric Garner Exists Online

7/23/2014 - Have the Obamas Purchased Their Post-White House Home in California?

7/23/2014 - LA Clippers CEO: If Donald Sterling Stays, Doc Rivers Quits

7/23/2014 - Sexually Frustrated Women Use Wrong Methods to Get Satisfaction

7/23/2014 - #IAmJada: When Black Survivors Use Social Media to Clap Back 

7/23/2014 - Mr. President, Simply Avoiding Mistakes Is Not a Foreign Policy 

7/23/2014 - Why Is It Such a Spectacle When White Guys Dance Well?

7/23/2014 - Tony Dungy and Things That Sound Bad No Matter What You Mean

7/22/2014 - A Look at 3 Black American Journalists Covering the Israel-Gaza Crisis

7/22/2014 - Jada Pinkett Smith Speaks Out About Niece’s Attempted Sexual Assault

7/22/2014 - Update: McDonald’s and Lawyer of Mom Who Left Child in Park Differ Over Firing

7/22/2014 - Md. Couple Allegedly Locked Autistic Adult Twins in Basement

7/22/2014 - Top High School Basketball Player to Forgo College to Play Overseas

7/22/2014 - When Creatives Collide: Run You.

7/22/2014 - New York City Approves 'Poor Door' for Apartment Building

7/22/2014 - NYPD Internal Report: Eric Garner Was Not ‘in Great Distress’

7/22/2014 - Okla. Teen Missionary Allegedly Raped Several Children at Kenyan Orphanage

7/22/2014 - By Tent, Trailer or an RV: Some of the Best Places to Camp

7/22/2014 - Canada: The Promised Land for Black Children?

7/22/2014 - Ray J Hit With 10 Misdemeanor Charges 

7/22/2014 - 11 Parents of Abducted Chibok Girls Die From Ongoing Violence or Stress 

7/22/2014 - Michigan Jail Switches Prison Jumpsuits After Success of OITNB

7/22/2014 - Richard Pryor Jr. Threatens Legal Action Against Stepmother

7/22/2014 - President Obama Announces Financial Boost for My Brother’s Keeper  

7/22/2014 - NYC Officials Approve ‘Poor Door’ Separate Entrance for Low-Income Tenants

7/22/2014 - ‘I’m Terrified of Dying Like Eric Garner’

7/22/2014 - Parenting Do-Over: Having Children Many Years Apart

7/22/2014 - Why Isn’t Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars: Episode 7?

7/22/2014 - When Black Venus Was the Ideal Standard of Beauty

7/22/2014 - Yes, We Camp, and if You Don’t, Here’s What You’re Missing

7/22/2014 - Hi. I'm A Writer. And I Suck at Scrabble.

7/21/2014 - Homophobic or Not? Tony Dungy ‘Wouldn’t Have Taken’ Michael Sam Because ‘Things Will Happen’

7/21/2014 - The Dos And Donts Of Throwing A Bachelor Party

7/21/2014 - Report: Va. Dad Leaves Twin Babies Alone in Car and Is Caught Having Sex 30 Feet Away

7/21/2014 - Pregnant NC Mom Loses Kids After Seeking Home for Them on Craigslist

7/21/2014 - Report: Sherri Shepherd’s Estranged Husband Will Sue if She Doesn’t Step Up to Motherhood

7/21/2014 - DC: The Love Jones Cafe - Monday, July 28th

7/21/2014 - 11-Year-Old Chicago Girl Killed by Stray Bullet at Slumber Party

7/21/2014 - Journalist Wins Right to View James Brown’s Documents

7/21/2014 - The Rev. Al Sharpton Wants Justice in Choke Hold Death

7/21/2014 - Vandals Damage Tuskegee Airmen Tribute Statues

7/21/2014 - Zendaya Coleman Explains Why She Exited Aaliyah Biopic 

7/21/2014 - Black and Unarmed: Men Without Weapons Killed by Law Enforcement

7/21/2014 - Did Black Slaves Revolt in Iraq?

7/21/2014 - An Open Letter to My White Stepmom

7/21/2014 - Cory Booker: 3 Signs the Selfie Senator Has Big Plans

7/21/2014 - For African-American Women—and All Women—Let’s Make Every Day Equal Pay Day

7/21/2014 - Six Things No One Tells You About Your Wedding Day

7/20/2014 - Report: HIV Diagnoses Fall in US, Rise Among Some Gay Men

7/20/2014 - Watch: NYC Cops Purportedly Failed to Help Eric Garner After ‘Choke Hold’

7/20/2014 - 22 Shot, 2 Dead During Violent Chicago Weekend

7/20/2014 - Jury Awards Widow $23,600,000,000 in Tobacco Case

7/20/2014 - Career Spotlight: Park Ranger Shelton Johnson on Why Spending Time Outdoors Is About Civil Rights ​

7/20/2014 - Really, NY Magazine? Couldn’t Find a Black Rom-Com for Top 25?  

7/19/2014 - NBC Redeploys Reporter to Gaza After Fallout

7/19/2014 - 2 Cops Pulled From Streets After NYC Father Dies in ‘Choke Hold’

7/19/2014 - 46,000 Federal Drug Sentences Could Be Cut

7/19/2014 - The Catch Up: What You Missed This Week in Pop Culture News and More

7/19/2014 - Report: 100 AIDS Conference Delegates Aboard MH17

7/19/2014 - Rights Groups Condemn Detroit Water Shutoffs

7/19/2014 - Is It Nation of Islam Time Again in Hip-Hop?

7/19/2014 - Helping Black Boys Become Great Men

7/19/2014 - 11-Year-Old Scores Higher Than Einstein on Mensa IQ Test

7/18/2014 - Former Black Panther and 1984 Plane Hijacker Sentenced to 20 Years

7/18/2014 - Universal Studios Responds to Straight Outta Compton Casting

7/18/2014 - Ariz. Mother Who Left Kids in Car During Job Interview Gets Court Deal 

7/18/2014 - GET ON UP Screening Passes (Baltimore - Wednesday, July 23| DC Coming Soon!)

7/18/2014 - Wendy Williams Announces Executive-Producer Role on Aaliyah Biopic

7/18/2014 - TwitPic’ing the Awkward Moment When Your Exes Become Besties

7/18/2014 - Watch: NYC Father Dies After Being Put in Choke Hold by Police

7/18/2014 - Beyoncé Exhibit Heads to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

7/18/2014 - NJ Apprentice Settles for $34,000 in Racial-Discrimination Claim

7/18/2014 - This NYC Firefighter Is the 1st Woman of FDNY Calendar of Heroes

7/18/2014 - Treme Actor Settles ‘Shopping While Black’ Lawsuit With Macy’s

7/18/2014 - My Man’s Ex Won’t Stop Hanging Out With His Mom

7/18/2014 - My 1st Same-Sex Wedding Was Just a Perfect Wedding

7/18/2014 - Is There Value to Beyoncé’s Brand of Popular Feminism?

7/18/2014 - Am I Related to the 1st Black NY Yankee?

7/18/2014 - Artists Who Probably Only Listen To Their Own Music

7/17/2014 - How Immigration Cases Are Prioritized: First Kids, Then Criminals, Then Everyone Else

7/17/2014 - NBA Player’s Transgender Sister Found Dead in Baltimore Alley

7/17/2014 - Girl Abandoned on a Doorstep Off to College 18 Years Later  

7/17/2014 - If AFSCME Breaks With Black Colleges Over Koch Money, It’s Not Being Principled, It’s Grandstanding

7/17/2014 - Straight Outta Compton Casting Call Is Probably the Most Racist One Ever

7/17/2014 - Drake, The Most Talented Rapper...Ever

7/17/2014 - Study: Black Men Have Made Very Little Progress in 50 Years

7/17/2014 - #ThatsSo90s: Jade - Don't Walk Away

7/17/2014 - Social Media Reacts to #BlackCaptainAmerica

7/17/2014 - Survey: White Males Dominate Cable-News Talk Shows

7/17/2014 - Florida Barbershop Promotes Literacy by Giving Books to Its Young Customers

7/17/2014 - New Captain America Is an African American From Harlem

7/17/2014 - Texas Actress Who Sent Ricin Letter to the President Gets 18 Years

7/17/2014 - Deborah Cox Will Be the Voice Behind Whitney Houston in New Biopic

7/17/2014 - Morticians Ditch Bodies After Getting Ousted From Texas Funeral Home

7/17/2014 - Let’s Apply Affirmative Action Based on Present-Day Segregation, Not Race

7/17/2014 - The Burden Of Writing (And Reading) While Black

7/16/2014 - Stranger Sets Up a Fundraising Page to Help Mom Jailed for Letting 9-Year-Old Daughter Play at Park Near Job

7/16/2014 - KKK Hands Out "Kandy" In South Carolina

7/16/2014 - The Cold War Between Straight Black Women And Gay Black Men

7/16/2014 - Law Enforcement and the KKK Have a Close History in Florida

7/16/2014 - NJ TV Reporter: Black Men Are Anti-Cop Because They Grow Up Without Dads

7/16/2014 - Do All Natural-Hair Videos on YouTube Look Like This?

7/16/2014 - Chicago Man Charged With Hate Crime for Spitting On and Slapping Judge

7/16/2014 - Oklahoma Mom Says 1-Year-Old Contracted Herpes at Day Care

7/16/2014 - Did Pam Oliver’s Haters Help Push Her Aside?

7/16/2014 - Woman Robs 8-Year-Old of School Fundraising Cash

7/16/2014 - Many Rivers to Cross Nominated for Emmy

7/16/2014 - VSB Interviews: Tonja and Berook Bring you CINEMA BUN!

7/16/2014 - Prospective Kidney Donor Dies in Car Accident Before Surgery

7/16/2014 - Vanessa Williams Opens Up About Being Molested by a Woman at Age 10

7/16/2014 - Wu-Tang-Affiliated Rapper Mutilates His Genitals in Response to ‘Demons’

7/16/2014 - Court Upholds Affirmative Action at the University of Texas 

7/16/2014 - Is Hotel Shampoo Kind of Racist?

7/16/2014 - Actor Lance Gross Chaperones Howard University Students on Trip to China

7/16/2014 - The Kind of #Columbusing I Don't Mind

7/15/2014 - Undocumented Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Is Taken Into Custody Near US Border

7/15/2014 - Rihanna ‘Accidentally’ Tweets #FreePalestine, Then Deletes It

7/15/2014 - The Boondocks’ Aaron McGruder Seals Deal With Adult Swim

7/15/2014 - Man Faces Fines For Running Of The Bulls Selfie

7/15/2014 - Mom Jailed for Letting 9-Year-Old Daughter Play at Park Near Job

7/15/2014 - On Bachelor Parties And Blackouts

7/15/2014 - Shoppers Smash Window of Hot Car to Save Kids While Mom Got Haircut

7/15/2014 - Police to Press Charges in Virginia Target Shoplifting Case

7/15/2014 - Vintage Prince Footage Unearthed

7/15/2014 - Olympic Legend Alice Coachman Dies at 90

7/15/2014 - Dick Vitale Live Tweets His Way Through a Lionel Richie Concert    

7/15/2014 - Tupac Musical Holler if Ya Hear Me Silenced on Broadway After 6 Weeks

7/15/2014 - Tracy Morgan Speaks for the 1st Time Since Accident: ‘I’m OK. I Feel Strong’

7/15/2014 - In Art, Blackness Provides a Scent of the Exotic

7/15/2014 - Get on Up: The Pain of Playing James Brown

7/15/2014 - MLK’s Case for Reparations Included Disadvantaged Whites

7/15/2014 - We Stand Together—Black and Brown—for the Young People of Chicago and Central America

7/15/2014 - #NerdStuff: They Killin' Archie Out Here. Hide Your Kids.

7/14/2014 - Social Media Stands in Solidarity With #IAmJada

7/14/2014 - Va. Target Security Guard Fired for Turning in Shoplifter? 

7/14/2014 - There's Nothing Wrong With Being A Bandwagon Fan

7/14/2014 - Va. Man Claims ‘Kingdom of North Sudan’ to Make Daughter Princess

7/14/2014 - Anti-Apartheid Novelist Nadine Gordimer Dead at 90

7/14/2014 - Family of Man Fatally Shot by Undercover NYPD Cop Settles for $2M

7/14/2014 - Boko Haram: ‘Bring Back Our Army’

7/14/2014 - First Look: Lifetime Releases ‘Whitney’ and ‘Bobby’ Photo

7/14/2014 - If You Can Kickstart Potato Salad, Why Not Some White Privilege?

7/14/2014 - 8th-Grade Metal Band Signs $1.7M Record Deal

7/14/2014 - Florida Cops Linked to KKK Are Off the Force

7/14/2014 - How to Raise a Financially Responsible Child

7/14/2014 - I’m Writing About My Bipolar Disorder While I’m Learning to Live With It

7/14/2014 - LeBron James’ Return: Part Basketball, Part Urban Renewal

7/14/2014 - Damon Is Getting Married. And I Couldn't Be Happier.

7/13/2014 - Ind. Teen Allegedly Slayed Flight Attendant in Grisly Robbery Plot

7/13/2014 - WeatherNation Hires Meteorologist Fired for Explaining Black Hair

7/13/2014 - Moms With Guns Founder Shares Obama Post: ‘Where Is an Assassin When You Need One?’

7/13/2014 - Rachel Jeantel Blames Self for George Zimmerman Acquittal

7/13/2014 - Comic Books and Sexism: A History of the 2nd-Class Caped Crusader

7/13/2014 - Longer Safe-Haven Times for Moms Might Have Kept Babies Safe From Harm

7/13/2014 - True or False: There Are No Black People in Argentina

7/13/2014 - Where Are They Now: The People and Events Surrounding the George Zimmerman Verdict

7/12/2014 - LeBron James Changes the Game for Cleveland

7/12/2014 - Fla. Teen Gets 23 Years in Fatal Shooting of Police Dog

7/12/2014 - Three Charged in Gun Death of N.J. Girl

7/12/2014 - The Catch Up: What You Missed This Week In Memes And More

7/12/2014 - Tracy Morgan Sues Wal-Mart in Fatal N.J. Crash

7/12/2014 - Mom of Victim in ‘Viral’ Rape Video Speaks Out

7/12/2014 - Dispatches From Freedom Summer: The Ghosts of Greenwood

7/12/2014 - Here’s the Atrocious Way George Zimmerman Spent the Last Year

7/12/2014 - How Marfan Syndrome Took Center Stage on NBA Draft Night, and in an Infant’s Life

7/11/2014 - Black Community in Fla. Gets a New Swimming Pool 40 Years Later

7/11/2014 - Favela Chic: Gentrifying the Slums of Brazil

7/11/2014 - Ford to Donate $1M to Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

7/11/2014 - Here Are Some of the Funniest Reactions to LeBron James Leaving Miami

7/11/2014 - Ga. Runaways Wanted in Shooting Caught After Mocking Police Online

7/11/2014 - LeBron James Is Going Back to Cleveland

7/11/2014 - Lebron Goes Back to Cleveland. Holy. Fucking. Shit. (Edit: 10 Post-Nosebleed Observations)

7/11/2014 - Wendy Williams Addresses Transgender Rumors

7/11/2014 - LGBT Center’s 26-Year-Old 1st Black Chair Faces Racial Hostility

7/11/2014 - VSB Roundtable: How Fake Deep Was Your Fake Deep?

7/11/2014 - Comedian Smokes ‘Crack’ Publicly in San Francisco and Nothing Happens

7/11/2014 - Police Use Breast Implants’ Serial Numbers to ID Dead Woman 

7/11/2014 - Detroit Activists Arrested After Blocking Trucks Sent to Turn Off Water

7/11/2014 - Judge: GOP Conspired to ‘Manipulate’ Redistricting in Fla.

7/11/2014 - Were My Ancestors on America’s Last Slave Ship?

7/11/2014 - Should I Snitch on a Friend Who Slept With Another Friend’s Husband?

7/11/2014 - A Guide to Marriage, Courtesy of Robin Thicke

7/10/2014 - "Dating Naked" Is Impossible As Sh*t

7/10/2014 - Obama Administration: Undocumented Child Migrants Are Not Spreading Disease

7/10/2014 - The Children Crossing Our Border Just Want a Better Life—Let’s Treat Them as Our Own

7/10/2014 - Is Sherri Shepherd Giving Up Rights to Surrogate Baby?

7/10/2014 - 1st Look: Yaya DaCosta Re-Creates Whitney Houston’s 1987 Album Cover  

7/10/2014 - Students Seek to Ban R-Word From Publication; Board Members Say No

7/10/2014 - Chicago Teen Killed Two Days Before College Orientation  

7/10/2014 - Ray Nagin: ‘It’s Been Tough’ Since Conviction

7/10/2014 - Stacey Dash Wants Kanye West to Visit Rikers Island So He Can Experience Rape

7/10/2014 - NC Man Sits in Hot Car to End Hot-Car Deaths

7/10/2014 - Scandal and Orange Is the New Black Snag Emmy Nominations

7/10/2014 - Court Petition: Detroit Boy Found in Basement Was Repeatedly Abused

7/10/2014 - Ex-Ga. GOP Employee Claims Racial Discrimination

7/10/2014 - Jay Z to Headline Anti-Poverty Concert in New York

7/10/2014 - Racist or Not? Clothing Store Pairs Monkey T-Shirt With Black-Child Hanger

7/10/2014 - How Wall Street Can Make Money on Black Progress in America

7/10/2014 - 13 Heroes of #HuskyTwitter You Shouldn’t Overlook

7/10/2014 - What the Book Place, Not Race Doesn’t Get: There’s Still a Place for Race-Based Affirmative Action

7/10/2014 - Surprised? Even Poor Whites Have It Better Than Blacks

7/10/2014 - Street Harassment: The Black Girl's Bat Mitzvah

7/9/2014 - You Want President Obama Impeached, Sarah Palin? For What?

7/9/2014 - 1st Look: Is That Don Cheadle or Miles Davis?

7/9/2014 - 10 Years in Prison for Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

7/9/2014 - Bey-nefactor: Beyoncé Quietly Funded Housing Complex for Homeless in Houston

7/9/2014 - It Was Bobby Brown’s Prerogative That Caused Him to Take Every Little Step Offstage

7/9/2014 - Tenn. Mom Sues School After Daughter Claims Teammates Called Her N-Word 

7/9/2014 - Ray Nagin Gets 10 Years, The Legacy Of Clay Davis Continues

7/9/2014 - Young Mom Suffocates Infant After Reaching ‘Breaking Point’

7/9/2014 - Meet Diane Stretton: Thug Nanny

7/9/2014 - 16-Year-Old Says Her Rape Went Viral; Alleged Rapist Tweets His Innocence and Mocks Her

7/9/2014 - Jerry Sandusky’s Son Tells Oprah His Story of Abuse: ‘At Bedtime, His Ritual Began’

7/9/2014 - Husband of Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Gets 8 Years in Prison

7/9/2014 - Man Beaten to Death in San Antonio Amtrak Station

7/9/2014 - Yes, Immigrant Kids Are Fleeing Violence, but So Were Kids in Chicago Last Weekend

7/9/2014 - It’s Time to Stop Asking Whether Women Can Have It All

7/9/2014 - Calling a Black Girl’s Hair Cotton Candy: Not Cool, Right?

7/9/2014 - The Phenomenal Women of Freedom Summer  

7/9/2014 - I'm Getting Married In 10 Days. And I'm Fine With That.

7/8/2014 - Record-Breaking Attendance at the Essence Music Festival

7/8/2014 - Minneapolis Locals Slam Bar Louie Dress Code as Covertly Racist

7/8/2014 - Texas Rangers 1st Baseman Prince Fielder Poses Nude, and #HuskyTwitter Salutes Him

7/8/2014 - VSB Investigative Report: Who Actually Bought Robin Thicke's Album?

7/8/2014 - Leaked: An Email Exchange Between Wale and Meek Mill

7/8/2014 - NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown: 1964 Championship Ring Was Stolen

7/8/2014 - Obama Seeks $3.7 Billion From Congress to Contain Border

7/8/2014 - Columbus Short Finally Opens Up About His Personal Issues

7/8/2014 - NY Mother in Custody After Baby Abandoned on Subway Platform

7/8/2014 - Missing NYC World War II Veteran Found in Las Vegas

7/8/2014 - Beyoncé’s Dad, Matthew Knowles, Hit With Another Paternity Suit

7/8/2014 - Leading Black Producers on Broadway Adapt Film Black Orpheus

7/8/2014 - Do You Know the Legend of the 1st Black Saint?           

7/8/2014 - Cuba: Is It Time to Turn Enemies Into Frenemies?

7/8/2014 - Janet Mock Breaks Through the Isolation for Transgender Women of Color

7/8/2014 - Credit Invisibility Means Less Economic Opportunity in Black America

7/7/2014 - How Seinfeld Became My Dating Litmus Test

7/7/2014 - MLK Jr. Bridge in Indiana Vandalized

7/7/2014 - 83-Year-Old Texas Woman Wards Off Thief With Stick and Boiling Water

7/7/2014 - Really? Meme Shames Black Women for Buying Weaves From Koreans

7/7/2014 - Lil’ Mo vs. Prince and His Legion of Fans

7/7/2014 - Nebraska 4th of July Float Shows Outhouse ‘Obama Presidential Library’

7/7/2014 - What Solange Would Have Said About The Fight If She Were One Of Your Cousins

7/7/2014 - Feed a Child Ad Showing Black Boy Being Fed Like a Dog Sparks Outrage

7/7/2014 - More Than 60 Women and Girls Escape Boko Haram

7/7/2014 - Solange Knowles Addresses Elevator Fight in Lucky Magazine

7/7/2014 - NJ Girl, 12, Left ‘Brain Dead’ After Shooting, Police Say

7/7/2014 - Memphis, Tenn., Police Find 8-Year-Old Boy Chained to Backyard Shed

7/7/2014 - Variety Claims Rock and Roll Was Invented by Elvis but Gets a Lesson From Twitter 

7/7/2014 - Why I Support My Brother’s Keeper but Still Signed the Letter Criticizing It

7/7/2014 - Are You Raising a Homophobic Child?

7/7/2014 - Booming Black Businesses Fuel Brazil’s New Middle Class

7/7/2014 - Did Black Men Fight at Gettysburg?

7/7/2014 - Why Is President Obama Called N-Word in Headline?

7/7/2014 - Relax, Everyone. White Rappers Aren't Taking Over

7/6/2014 - Watch: Off-Duty Georgia Officer Charged in Racial Road Rage Assault

7/6/2014 - Report: Malia Obama Receives a Car for Sweet 16

7/6/2014 - Probe Launched in LA Roadside Beating; Victim’s Family Demands Answers

7/6/2014 - Former Scandal Star Columbus Short Arrested After Alleged Bar Fight

7/6/2014 - Find the Best Soul Food Wherever This Summer Takes You

7/5/2014 - Watch: Officer Batters Woman on Roadside

7/5/2014 - Watch: Prince Performs Purple Rain, When Doves Cry

7/5/2014 - Shock Jock Fired Over ‘Racially Charged’ Posts

7/5/2014 - Watch: Passengers Confront Racist on Train

7/5/2014 - 15 Shot in Chicago as July 4th Weekend Starts

7/5/2014 - Who Will Save Our Missing Children of Color?

7/5/2014 - Battle for Black Voters’ Rights Rages on in North Carolina

7/4/2014 - Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Leads to More Than $5,400,000 in Donations

7/4/2014 - ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ Well ... Tyler Perry Owns That

7/4/2014 - The Meaning of the 4th of July Now

7/4/2014 - Tracing Dad’s Ancestry Without His DNA

7/4/2014 - Seven Great Videos Featuring Barbecues

7/3/2014 - Hobby Lobby Ruling Opens the Door to ‘Method Discrimination’ for Black Women

7/3/2014 - Opie & Anthony Host Calls Black Woman a ‘Savage’ During Racist Twitter Rant 

7/3/2014 - Watch: Larenz Tate Says Hollywood Limits Black Experience to 1 Lane

7/3/2014 - Young-Adult Author Walter Dean Myers Dies at 76

7/3/2014 - Black Supremacist King Samir Shabazz Jailed Again on Charges of Illegal Gun Possession

7/3/2014 - NJ Cheerleader Shot ‘Execution Style’ 2 Weeks After Graduating

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7/3/2014 - Nick Cannon Hints at Portraying Richard Pryor in Biopic; Pryor’s Children Want Marlon Wayans

7/3/2014 - History, Hiking and Hideaways: Visiting the U.S. Virgin Islands

7/3/2014 - British Mom of 3 to Marry Minnesota Inmate She Met Online

7/3/2014 - 2-Year-Old Passes Out in Hot Car While Parents Drink at a Bar

7/3/2014 - 78-Year-Old Jailed Over $500 Debt  

7/3/2014 - African Slaves Were the 1st to Celebrate Ramadan in America

7/3/2014 - Prince Leads an All-Star Lineup at the Essence Music Festival 

7/3/2014 - We Can All Learn From the NJ Prep School Student Who Spoke Out Against Racism and Sexism

7/3/2014 - People Who Are Not Invited to The Root’s 4th of July Barbecue

7/3/2014 - On Head Scarves, Bed Time, and Women's Hair

7/2/2014 - Grand Dragon Protests His Removal From Neighborhood Watch

7/2/2014 - Racially Profiled While Shopping? Here’s 1 Way to Handle It

7/2/2014 - VSB Presents: The #Blackest Name In America Tournament - And The Winner Is...

7/2/2014 - ‘Things Tim Howard Could Save’ Meme Stars Team USA’s World Cup Goalie

7/2/2014 - Oops: Aaron Hernandez Is ‘Mr. July’ in University of Florida Sports Calendar

7/2/2014 - NY Mom Kills Self and Daughters in Nitrogen Gas Murder-Suicide

7/2/2014 - NYPD Cracks Down on Subway Pole Dancers

7/2/2014 - Want to Dress Like Kanye? Now You Can, but It’ll Cost You!

7/2/2014 - Man Who Threatened to Kill Michael Strahan Arrested Outside GMA Studio

7/2/2014 - Fast-Food Worker Claims She Was Forced to Clean Bathrooms With Toothbrush

7/2/2014 - From Teen Mom to Boss: An Encouraging Story From Humans of New York

7/2/2014 - The Civil Rights Act Was a Turning Point in Our Nation’s Racial History

7/2/2014 - Why We Need More Black Female Rappers

7/2/2014 - Help! My White Husband Came With a Racist Teenage Stepdaughter

7/2/2014 - The Most Divisive Topics In The Black Community

7/1/2014 - US Slaves Fought Against America’s Independence?

7/1/2014 - Hobby Lobby Ruling Denies Black Women Reproductive Justice

7/1/2014 - Michelle Howard Becomes 1st Female 4-Star Officer in the Navy

7/1/2014 - Watch: SC Trooper Threatens to Use Taser on Bengals’ Lineman

7/1/2014 - Waffle House Boycotts Belgian Waffles for Team USA

7/1/2014 - Black Former Employee Sues Benjamin Moore Over Paint Names

7/1/2014 - FBI to Question Detroit Boy Found in Basement 

7/1/2014 - Black NJ Prep School Student President Stripped of Office for Mocking White Male Peers

7/1/2014 - Bobbi Kristina Brown Blasts Angela Bassett Over Whitney Biopic

7/1/2014 - Judge Throws Out George's Zimmerman's Libel Suit Against NBC

7/1/2014 - The Worst Thing You Can Find Out About Your Boy

7/1/2014 - Robin Thicke’s #AskThicke Twitter Q&A Takes a Left Turn for the Worst 

7/1/2014 - Woman Surrenders in Brutal Beating of Mother in Front of 2-Year-Old

7/1/2014 - Texas Tech Cuts Football Player After He Reportedly Punches Woman in Face

7/1/2014 - Florida Church Dedicates Service to Keeping LeBron James in Miami

7/1/2014 - New Malcolm X Diary Reveals a Revolutionary Optimist

7/1/2014 - In Painting, African Women’s Burden Carries a Deeper Meaning

7/1/2014 - Meet 3 Young Entrepreneurs Who Put Wall Street to Shame

7/1/2014 - Are These the Heirs to Freedom Summer’s Legacy?