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Earlier this week the African-American students at Ole Miss were accused in an article published by The Root of being  “not socially conscious” by...

Khloe Kardashian, left, and Kris Jenner arrive at the The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment Breakfast on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, in Los...

Nappy hair has been a stigma tied to black folks for centuries. Culturally, black hair has been given varying degrees of goodness: good, okay or very bad....

What do we talk about when we talk about Azealia Banks? The “Broke With Expensive Tastes” rapper is certainly talked about more for her volcanic Twitter...

A friend gave me a disheartening glimpse into her mind a few weeks ago while she drove me home from campus. After asking me what it was like to be in a...

Yesterday, three Syrian-American Muslims, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Yusor Mohammad, a 23- and 21-year-old married couple, along with their roommate and Mohammad’s...

Storming up onto the stage, while the 57th Annual Grammy Awards’ “Album of the Year” went to rock luminary Beck, Kanye West set off conversation...

As Valentine’s Day approaches, single ladies, so does the reminder of the horror and entropy of eternal loneliness that the cosmos have unfortunately...

Far too often, we allow others back into our lives who have done things in spite of us. These actions usually hurt us emotionally, mentally or physically;...