(The Root) — “What’s your take on men who refer to women as ‘females’? Dude hit me up on a dating site, and his profile, when describing what he’s looking for, referred to women as females through the whole thing. Why couldn’t he just say ‘ladies’ or ‘women’?” —D.F. Some form of this question comes…

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor makes efforts to rebrand himself and his party: The move on Tuesday comes as Republicans try to reposition themselves after losing last year’s presidential election by essentially ignoring the minority electoral base. Cantor, who is often contentious and combative, expressed hope that the party can work with President Barack…

Todd Kincannon, a former top GOP official in South Carolina, says he just wanted to get a rise out of people when he fired off several offensive tweets during the Super Bowl Sunday night. But not everyone sees it that way. Kincannon, a lawyer who was executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party from…

The White House on Tuesday released videotaped remarks of President Obama urging Kenyans to seize the upcoming elections as a historic opportunity to stand together as a nation for peace and progress, as well as for the rule of law. The President has strong ties to the people of Kenya. From visiting his father’s village…

(The Root) — The creative talent of many notable and emerging contemporary artists of the black Diaspora will be on full display at the fourth annual Harlem Fine Arts Show. This year’s showcase will honor the late Percy E. Sutton, a prominent civil rights leader, businessman and avid art collector. This year HFAS expands to…

(Special to The Root) — The Internet has changed America perhaps even more profoundly than the telegraph, television or Motown Records. Much the way these earlier innovations shrank the spaces between Americans and unleashed new market forces, access to broadband has opened up a whole new way of doing business that crosses lines of culture…

(Special to The Root) — Skin color is one of our most important biological traits. Its many shades evolved as humans moved far and wide into regions with different intensities of sunlight. Skin color is also a trait that has come to have deep cultural meanings — developed over many centuries — that influence our…

Essence‘s Charli Penn checks in with the ladies of the popular blog to find out what they learned from the OWN host and one another. When the friendship between the women behind the popular lifestyle blog Six Brown Chicks fell apart, their blog did too. Suddenly, these dynamic women — authors, business owners, philanthropists and…