Business Insider is reporting that diversity in Silicon Valley has become a hot topic lately. In a one-and-a-half year long investigation, CNNMoney probed 20 of the most influential technology companies in the U.S. What they found: racial minorities and women are generally underrepresented in management roles. And those roles are typically dominated by white and…

First lady Michelle Obama’s slip of the tongue while promoting her Let’s Move! campaign, accidentally calling herself “a busy single mother,” continued to reverberate a day later. Proponents and opponents tried to analyze the statement, asking whether there is marital strife, pointing out the president’s public acknowledgment of another beautiful woman, along with a lot…

(The Root) — When Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert died on April 4 after a battle with cancer, a cross-cultural, countrywide coalition of fans expressed grief over the loss of the 70-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner. You didn’t have to be a Chicagoan to have heard of his work, which had a national audience. And…

CNN is reporting that a federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after birth control pill available over the counter to people of any age without a prescription. This order overturned a 2011 decision by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to require a prescription for…

We all know that President Obama likes to joke, but did he cross the line when he praised the beauty of California Attorney General Kamala Harris? By now you may have heard that he called her “the best-looking attorney general” during remarks at a fundraiser in Atherton, Calif., according to ABC News. “You have to…