Imagine going through your entire childhood having to hide your HIV-positive status because your mother wanted to protect you from being shunned, humiliated, bullied or abused like the late Ryan White, the Indiana teenager who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion in 1984. Now imagine keeping that secret even as a college student while engaging…

New Orleans Saints player Benjamin Watson penned one of the most-talked-about essays in the aftermath of last Monday’s racial violence in Ferguson, Mo. The heartfelt essay discusses Watson’s personal feelings regarding the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the St. Louis County grand jury’s decision not to indict police Officer Darren Wilson in connection with…

Watching the demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., I couldn’t escape thinking what impact they might be having on protesters’ employment status. Fifty-two years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer lost her home and her job as a sharecropper because she dared to attempt to register herself and 17 other blacks to vote in Mississippi. Hamer said of losing these…

“What the hell is Janay Palmer thinking?” It was the question asked by nearly everyone who saw “that video,” the one that clearly showed Palmer’s then-fiance, former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, knocking her unconscious on an elevator, then dragging her limp body off it. She’d stayed with Rice after that—married him, even. And…

While Bill Cosby’s Far From Finished Tour is still scheduled to make a stop in Tarrytown, N.Y., on Dec. 6, the beleaguered comic—amid increasing allegations of sexual assault—has finally agreed to offer refunds to those who want them, according to the Journal News. An email was sent Friday from the Tarrytown Music Hall box office,…

A 13-year-old boy reported missing four years ago was found behind a “false wall” in the suburban-Atlanta home of his father and stepmother on Friday, according to NBC News, citing police reports. The unidentified child reportedly used a smartphone to contact his sister online, and she gave the message to their mother, Clayton County, Ga.,…

Last week, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn granted clemency to a man who had been cleared of murder but who still faced a felony record for skipping out on bond during his trial, the Chicago Tribune reports. The man was part of a group of men known as the Dixmoor Five. The four other men were…

Darren Wilson, the unindicted Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown during a confrontation, has resigned, the Daily Mail reports. His attorney, Neil Bruntrager, announced Saturday that Wilson would be stepping down and his resignation would be effective immediately, the Mail reports. In his resignation letter, Wilson said his presence…

I am beyond blown. My husband decides to let me know last night that he has been having a two-year affair with a co-worker. I am in a daze right now. He is also begging me to still go to Thanksgiving dinner with his family because his mom has been dealing with major health issues…

Chalk it up to holiday stress, but a Pennsylvania woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend after he began eating their Thanksgiving dinner without her, according to the Smoking Gun. Jack-Lyn Blake, 47, of Wilkes-Barre was arrested Thursday on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, reckless endangerment and making terroristic threats after reportedly attacking her…