If you’re curious about how the beloved TV political drama Scandal will end, you may not have to be curious for much longer. Creator Shonda Rhimes told NPR in an interview that in her head, the show has a “clear expiration date,” and she knows how it’s going to end. “I feel like there is…

There are more poor people living in the United States than the official numbers detail, a revised census measure shows, according to the Associated Press. According to the new measure, which attempts to provide a fuller picture of poverty, there are 3 million more poor people in the U.S. than the official figures show, making…

Lonnie Johnson, founder of the Atlanta-based company Johnson Research and Development Co., has been awarded almost $73 million in royalties from Hasbro, Inc., the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, settling a long royalties dispute with toy-making giant. “In the arbitration we got everything we asked for,” attorney Leigh Baier told the Journal-Constitution. “The arbitrator ruled totally in…

It seems as if this year the big screen cannot get enough of black narratives. But Oprah Winfrey and other Hollywood heavyweights are not impressed. According to the Huffington Post, it’s a pattern they are all too familiar with. Every once in a while black-themed, often black-produced films make waves in award ceremonies and movie…

Howard University, one of the nation’s most-famed HBCUs, has not been having a good year, and some fear the faculty and university are losing their spirit. This comes as the school’s Faculty Senate voted no confidence on the school’s Board of Trustees, NPR reports. “All of the negative news has not been good for [the…

Online daters are more open to dating someone of a different race if the other person initiates contact, a study has found, according to New York’s Daily News. The study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that the users of the free online dating site OKCupid were more likely to…

Police found what they believe are the bodies of an African-American family that went missing on Friday, NBC10 reports. The three bodies, belonging to a man, a woman and a young male child, were discovered in an abandoned house on Tuesday close to the area southwest of Jackson, Miss., where investigators found the family’s burned…

Houston journalist Roland Martin debuted his new TV news show Monday, set to focus on the important news of the day from an African-American perspective, the Houston Chronicle reports. The platform, which has been a lifelong dream of Martin’s, is a one-hour program that will run alongside the final hour of his three-hour morning radio…