The Daily News reports that hip-hop mogul Jay Z, in an effort to turn a looming public relations disaster to his advantage, announced Friday that he plans to move forward with a collaboration with Barneys, vowing to tackle allegations of racial profiling “head on.” He released the statement five days before the scheduled unveiling of…

President Barack Obama’s signature health care law is at risk of falling apart because of a mixture of blunders by his administration and hubris, or “his own inflated promises,” the Associated Press reports. To avoid a catastrophe and a total unraveling of the measure, he needs to make speedy progress on several fronts, including fixing…

Los Angeles Clipper forward Matt Barnes has an unlikely defender after sending out a tweet containing the n-word. TNT analyst and basketball hall of famer Charles Barkley said Barnes had no reason to apologize for using the inflammatory word. Here’s the rub, according the Bleacher Report: Barnes was ejected from the Clippers’ 111-103 win over the…

In the aftermath of allegations of racial discrimination within the Greek system at the University of Alabama, the Huffington Post reports that one of the school’s major white sororities has elected a black president for the first time in history. Hannah Patterson, 22, an engineering student who joined Sigma Delta Tau a year ago, was…

The voices contesting North Carolina’s elections law just grew stronger. The News & Observer reports that six churches have added their names to an NAACP lawsuit challenging the law. The churches in Merry Hill, Brevard, Durham, Hickory and Chapel Hill argue in an amended complaint that cuts to the number of days for early voting…

During a candid interview recently with BBC’s Will Gompertz, Oprah Winfrey discussed racism, saying that it still exists in the world today and that it’s the singular reason that Barack Obama has been so disrespected as president, the Daily News reports. “There’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs in some cases and…