Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and the CEO of Barneys, Mark Lee, had a closed-door meeting to discuss recent allegations of racial profiling at the New York department store, the the Huffington Post reports. The two met at Sharpton’s National Action Network in Harlem. “We had a very candid and open meeting today…

The Hells Angels are going hard at gangster rapper Young Jeezy and his 8732 Apparel for jacking their Death Head logo, TMZ reports. According to the website, the infamous motorcycle club has filed a lawsuit claiming that the rapper’s clothing brand has used the logo on jackets, vests and hats. While the design isn’t an exact…

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has heard enough about Barneys and Macy’s and is launching a probe into both upscale retail giants after four complaints detailing racial profiling surfaced in the past week, the Daily News reports. Letters were sent to executives of both companies asking for their practices when determining whom to stop, detain…

Looks like Tiger Woods and EA Sports have broken up. The video-game company and the golfer have agreed to go their separate ways, and the split appears to be mutual, the Huffington Post reports. “We had an incredible run,” Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, told Darren Rovell of ESPN.com. “Outside of Madden, you would be hard…

Black women are less likely than white women to be infected by the most common strains of the human papillomavirus, and as a result, the current HPV vaccine may be ineffective for black women, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The new findings were discovered by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine and presented at the annual…

Chris Brown isn’t out of the woods yet, but the charges against him have been reduced to a simple assault misdemeanor, CNN reports. The embattled R&B singer and his bodyguard were arrested over the weekend after a scuffle outside the W Hotel in Washington, D.C. While it is unclear whether Brown initiated the altercation or was merely…

Another shopper has come forth with a shopping-while-black claim, making this the fourth such allegation this month, the New York Daily News reports.   Art Palmer, a 56-year-old physical trainer, says that four plain-clothes police stopped him after he purchased several Polo dress shirts and ties from Macy’s store using his Macy’s platinum card and American Express…

Another day, and another racist blackface Halloween incident. This one might have never been discovered had the Utah Jazz not tweeted out the photo, according to USA Today. That’s right, the official Utah Jazz twitter account retweeted a fan photo in which two white guys set out to re-create a vintage Karl Malone and John…

Penn State will pay 26 sexual-abuse victims of Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach, approximately $59.7 million for an end to their claims against the university, the New York Times reports. The settlement is “another step forward in the healing process for those hurt by Mr. Sandusky, and another step forward for Penn State,”…