How many times have we watched that stern, focused visage give way to a knowing grin as Richard Williams awaited the inevitable embrace from one of his just-won-a-grand slam daughters, Venus and Serena? Their names synonymous with tennis dominance, the sisters are the embodiment of a blueprint for success once laid out by their driven…

Kerry Washington did something shocking a couple of weeks ago: She reached one of life’s major milestones—giving birth to her beautiful baby girl—but she didn’t publicize it.  She didn’t tweet, Instagram or Facebook it. She didn’t leak it to People magazine. And somehow, in our social media-saturated age, the Scandal star decided that she didn’t…

Editor’s note: Days have turned into weeks for the more than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted in Nigeria last month. As reported in this excerpt from The Vanguard newspaper, government officials have admitted to not knowing the girls’ exact location, and hopes that they will be returned home soon are beginning to diminish.  Calling on…

Since I was a young and slightly overdeveloped girl on the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s East Flatbush neighborhood, I’ve endured street harassment in the form of disrespectful, intimidating, sexualized verbal assaults by strange men. More and more, I’ve truly begun to understand how my experience is part of a larger troubling pattern. One incident in…

Following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declined an invitation Saturday to deliver the commencement address at Rutgers University, the Associated Press reports. In a statement, she told Rutgers President Robert Barchi that she was declining the invitation because she did not…

A trip to the mall ended in a deadly dispute when a pregnant woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend after he bought gifts for everyone, except her, police say, according to the Daily News. Police say Miata Phalen, 24, fatally stabbed the father of her unborn child, Larry Martin, 28, on April 30th at the apartment…

Saturday Night Live tackled the Donald Sterling scandal in its usual fashion, chastising everyone from the embattled owner of the Los Angeles Clippers himself to V. Stiviano, his companion, to the former head of the L.A. chapter of the NAACP. Cast member Bobby Moynihan played Sterling, who bragged about his black friends, alongside other regulars…

A trip to the mall ended in a deadly dispute recently when police say a pregnant woman stabbed her boyfriend to death after he bought gifts for everyone, except her, the Daily News reports. Police say Miata Phelan, 24, stabbed the father of her unborn child, Larry Martin, 28, on April 30 inside the apartment…