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  • What Was the 1st Black American Newspaper?

    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. 70: What started the black newspaper…

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  • How an Interracial-Dating Web Series Gets Everything Wrong

    Relationships between people who claim different racial identities aren’t new (hey, Barack Obama’s parents, tons of other Americans and, according to the hope to which some fans are still clinging, Lupita and Jared). Nor are they all that controversial these days. (A full 86 percent of Americans approve of black-white pairings, for example.) So while it’s…

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  • It Takes a Village to Protect a Child With ASD

    The death of 14-year-old Avonte Oquendo this January brought attention to autism spectrum disorders among communities of color and the awareness of the need to protect autistic children from wandering, eloping or “bolting” from safe spaces. One of few children of color whose search—when he went missing from school—prompted mainstream media attention, Avonte brought a brown face to ASD. “In general,…

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  • Ben Carson Hits Liberals at CPAC, Says They Are Trying to Silence Him

    Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon and professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, on Saturday pushed back at liberal criticism of his views during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., bringing the crowd to its feet, the Baltimore Sun reports. “I hate PC [political correctness], and I will…

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  • Ben Carson Probably Isn’t the Key to Republicans’ Winning the White House

    Give this much, at least, to the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee: At the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, they went all out for their “candidate.” Carson addressed the crowd on the final day of this year’s CPAC—before Sarah Palin’s late-Saturday keynote—and autographed copies of his new book at a preferred-access signing…

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  • SNL’s Sasheer Zamata Shines as Olivia Pope in Scandal Spoof

    Dressed in a flawless white pantsuit while barking orders, Saturday Night Live’s Sasheer Zamata shined in her first big role as Scandal’s Olivia Pope. Zamata, who joined the show in January, is the first female African-American cast member to join the show in several years. But on Saturday, she delivered the performance of a veteran…

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  • Detroit Officer Investigated in Rape of Domestic Violence Caller

    A Detroit police officer has been charged in connection with the sexual assault of a woman, after he responded to a 911 call about a domestic dispute, according to MyFoxDetroit. The officer, Deon Nunlee, 40, was arraigned Friday and charged with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of assault with intent to…

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  • Cops Investigate ‘Bias Crime’ at Washington State High School

    Students at a Seattle high school could face disciplinary action after they reportedly hurled racial slurs at black basketball players on a rival team after a loss, MYNorthwest reports. The teams competed Friday for the fourth time this year at the WIAA State Basketball Tournament, but it was during the third matchup on Feb. 21…

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  • Maryland Frat and Sorority Under Fire for Racist-Themed Party

    Not again. A Maryland fraternity and sorority are under fire for reportedly hosting a Country Music Television vs. BET-themed party, where mostly white students dressed in hip-hop regalia and country-styled clothing. One white female student donned an Afro wig, butt padding and a clingy dress during the event, which the vice president of student affairs…

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  • Quote of the Day: Thelonious Monk on Math

    You can read this quote by Thelonious Monk, from an interview with Down Beat in 1971, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote is referenced 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…

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