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  • College Promoting Diversity Names Confederacy Lover as President

    The College of Charleston’s board of trustees adopted in 2012 its first-ever Diversity Strategic Plan. The plan, to be implemented over a five-year period, was meant to address the college’s many “diversity challenges.” It seems the board just created itself a new challenge. The board tapped South Carolina Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell as the college’s…

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  • Hollywood Can’t Figure Out What to Do With ‘Exotic’ Lupita

    Now that Hollywood’s award season has come to a close, perhaps it was inevitable that the fawning over media darling and Academy Award winner for best supporting actress Lupita Nyong’o would come to an end as well. The Hollywood Reporter put the official nail in the cliched coffin with its latest print issue, which asks…

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  • Quote of the Day: C.T. Vivian on Revolution

    You can read this quote by C.T. Vivian, from Black Power and the American Myth (1970), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Vivian here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him…

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  • Who Was the 1st Black Othello?

    Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 73: Who was the first…

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  • Confessions of a Black Brooklyn Gentrifier

    When the train tracks clink, I know that in about two minutes my train will come roaring into view—unless it’s the R train. The R comes when it wants to. To date, I have taken every train the MTA has to offer, many of its buses and even New Jersey Transit. One might guess that…

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  • 9 Biggest Lies About Black Males and Academic Success

    Editor’s note: This weekend, Morehouse College hosted the inaugural summit in a White House-sponsored series of events aimed at addressing educational outcomes for African-American students. The Morehouse event, called the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans: Addressing the Socio-Cultural Factors Impacting the Academic Achievement and Development of African American Males, focused on…

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  • Watch: Saturday Night Live: Louis CK Plays Black Jeopardy!

    Saturday Night Live returned last night after a two-week hiatus, featuring as host comedian Louis C.K., who drew constant laughs throughout the night. In one sketch, he played the role of a professor of African-American studies (from Brigham Young University, no less) who was a contestant on Black Jeopardy! It was hosted by Alex Treblack…

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  • Nearly 7,000,000 Enrolled For Healthcare as Today's Deadline Looms 

    Nearly 7 million people have signed up for private insurance plans under President Barack Obama’s beleaguered health care law, reflecting a crush of enrollments just days before Monday’s deadline, the Chicago Tribune reports. The surge comes even after federal officials announced Tuesday evening that all consumers who have begun to apply for coverage on HealthCare.gov,…

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  • More Than $60,000 Raised for Mom Arrested for Leaving Kids in Car During Interview

    A 35-year-old homeless Arizona mother who was arrested last week on felony child abuse charges after leaving her young children in a hot car while she went to a job interview, is receiving an outpouring of social media and financial support. Shanesha Taylor was arrested Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz., after police said she left the…

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  • DC-Area Student Accepted at 5 Ivy Leagues

    Last week, the nation heard about 18-year-old Chad Thomas, a senior at Booker T. Washington Senior High in Miami, who received 150 scholarship offers for his prowess on the football field and ability to play nine instruments. This week brings Avery Coffey, a senior at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C., who applied…

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