A woman claims that she wasn’t allowed to dance at the St. Louis African Arts Festival because she is white. Event organizers say they asked the woman to sit down and stop dancing because she was interrupting the show. Susan Stone claims that she has proof in the form of a secretly recorded video that…

On Wednesday, students at Rutgers University took their Beyoncé obsession into the classroom, and are earning college credit thanks to a new summer course titled, Feminist Perspectives: Politicizing Beyoncé, in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.  Spearheaded by doctoral student Kevin Allred, the class focuses on how ‘Yonce used her star status and female-empowerment…

50 Cent can blame his tight Mets jersey for what many people are calling the worst first pitch in the history of first pitches. On Tuesday the rapper took the mound at Citi Field in Queens, N.Y., to throw the ceremonial pitch before the New York Mets-Pittsburgh Pirates game. He did a decent job looking…

On Wednesday Venus and Serena Williams were bounced from the French Open, losing to lesser-known opponents in the second round, the Associated Press reports. In what many are calling a stunning upset, Serena, the defending French Open champion, lost to Garbine Muguruza of Spain in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. This marks the second time that…

Several groups who find the Washington Redskins name to be offensive are asking NFL players to join the cause. The Oneida Indian Nation and the National Congress of American Indians, two groups who have been vocal about changing the team’s name, started the letter-writing frenzy that just last week had some 50 Senate Democrats penning…

Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality doesn’t believe that Cliven Bundy—yes, the Cliven Bundy who was taped saying, “Blacks were better off as slaves”—is racist and said as much at an event this past weekend, Mediaite.com reports. Innis, who’s running for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District—which the website reports is also…

The NBA’s wish to have the Los Angeles Clippers owned by anyone not named Sterling is getting closer to becoming reality as reports have Shelly Sterling close to signing a deal presumably as early as this week, the New York Daily News reports. Shelly Sterling is now facilitating the deal after her “estranged” husband, disgraced…

Looks like a few British police officers have a love for old-school hip-hop: Two officers in Chelmsford, Essex, were busted for blasting KRS-One’s “Sound of Da Police” out of their patrol car after footage was uploaded to social networking sites. According to New York’s Daily News, the officers were disciplined after video was uploaded to YouTube…

A 15-year-old Georgia teen was fatally injured and two other teens were hospitalized after two men involved in a high-speed chase hit the three teens as they were walking to see a movie. According to WSB-TV, the girls have been identified as Reina As-Salaam, 15, and Juliana Ferrell and Monica Epps, both 16. Reina died…

 A white Mississippi Justice Court judge is accused of slapping a 20-year-old mentally disabled African-American man and yelling, “Run, n—ger, run,” after he fled. “This is 2014,” said former Canton Mayor William Truly, president of the Canton branch of the NAACP, “not 1960, where someone could slap a young man and call out, ‘Run, n—ger,…