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Michelle Obama Says Pres. Obama ‘Had to Grow Up a Little Bit’

*Believe it or not, President Barack Obama was not the serious student with good grades like folks thought he was. According to his wife, it...

Stacey Dash Demands Apology; Says Morgan Freeman Agrees with Her

*She's at it again. Stacey Dash is doubling and tripling down on her comments calling for the elimination of Black History Month and the BET...

Activist DeRay McKesson Schools Stephen Colbert on White Privilege

*#BlackLivesMatter activist DeRay McKesson briefly took over Stephen Colbert’s hosting seat on the "Late Show" recently when he discussed an array of issues including...

Update: Arizona Students & Those T-Shirts: ‘Sensitivity Training’ My Foot!

*OK, so you've most likely heard about the group of attention-starved Caucasian girls, all seniors at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, Arizona, who set social...

Six Cleveland Cops Linked to Fatal Shooting of Pair Fired

*Six Cleveland police officers have been fired in connection with a November 2012 20-mile car chase that ended with officers firing 137 bullets at...

Ben Carson Checks Stacey Dash: ‘Black History Month is Important’

*GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson disagrees with recent comments made by Stacey Dash, suggesting that BET and Black History Month only perpetuate segregation and...

Gabrielle Union, Nate Parker Talk Hollywood’s Diversity Problem (Watch)

*With #OscarsSoWhite currently a thing in Hollywood, every black celeb and their uncle is being asked to weigh in. “The Birth of a Nation” costars...

Effie Brown: Women, Minorities ‘Participated’ In Own Hollywood Discrimination

Embed from Getty Images *Effie Brown, the African American Hollywood producer whom Matt Damon famously tried to lecture on diversity, believes that women and people...

Ava DuVernay Voices Hate for the Word ‘Diversity’

*Despite giving a thumbs up to the Academy for taking steps to increase diversity among its membership, don’t expect Ava DuVernay to use that...

Black Men in Chicago: Nearly Half were Unemployed or Not in School

*A report released by the UIC Great Cities Institute is truly troubling. 47 percent of 20-24 year old Black men in Chicago were neither in...

Trump’s Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson Has a History of Racist Tweets

*From the tweets she’s sent out over the years, Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson looks to carry the same controversial mindstate as the GOP...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Impact of ‘Finding Your Roots’ Series

*As “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” enters its third season, it’s clear the show’s concept of taking viewers along for the...

DeRay Mckesson Responds to Macklemore’s ‘White Privilege II’

*Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ new song “White Privilege II” has attracted the attention of activist DeRay Mckesson, who recently voiced his reaction to the...

‘Straight Outta Compton’s’ Corey Hawkins to Lead Fox’s ‘24: Legacy’ Pilot

*Corey Hawkins, last seen as Dr. Dre in the film “Straight Outta Compton,” has secured the male lead of Fox’s newest pilot in the “24” franchise. According...

Nick Cannon’s Spoken Word Poem Targets #OscarsSoWhite (Watch)

*Nick Cannon felt moved to deliver a spoken word piece regarding the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. In a video of himself posted to Facebook over the weekend,...

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