When I was younger, I wanted my older cousin to be like Denise Huxtable. I wanted to talk to her about boys and clothes and go to the mall with her. However, she was a bit more like Daria Morgendorffer, the snarky, sarcastic loner on MTV’s animated ’90s series Daria and Beavis and Butt-head. When…

It was not one of Annalise Keating’s best weeks, and viewers know that in about two months (TV time), things are going to get worse for the law professor, who is now taking it one day at a time and coping with her lonely nights one drink at a time. Her drunkenness might become a…

Annalise Keating’s methods might be questionable, but there’s no denying that the Middleton University professor knows how to get results. She has managed to keep her murdering associates (students and employees alike) out of jail, dispose of a dead body found in her basement, frame her handsome ex-boyfriend and manipulate her lovely ex-girlfriend into defending…

Twists and turns. Drama gets deadly as we recap the four big takeaways from the season 2 opener of How to Get Away With Murder. 1. Who Killed Rebecca? The season 1 finale of How to Get Away With Murder left viewers with an unsolved murder, but the season 2 premiere presented a quick answer, all…

Nicki Minaj isn’t shy about showing off her assets. If her derriere were included in a police lineup, a lot of hip-hop fans would have no problem identifying the “pink princess’s” posterior. It’s almost as famous as her latest single—if not more so. Can you name it? The track, not her rump? Having reached a…

When the brothers of the fictional Gamma Phi Gamma Fraternity joined together in rhythmic unison, clapping and stomping, in a scene from Spike Lee’s 1988 film School Daze, for many it served as an introduction to the art form of stepping. The sharp, synchronized body movements, mixed with call-and-response, are characteristics of stepping, which may…

At first glance the numbers might not seem significant, but the decline of black men enrolling in medical school could have long-lasting ramifications for many minority communities. According to a recent report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, during the last 35 years the number of black men entering medical school to become physicians…

When a South Carolina judge appealed for compassion for a suspected mass murderer’s white parents—people who likely reminded him of himself—instead of focusing on the nine black lives violently snuffed out and their loved ones left behind, it was a stark reminder that some can connect only with those who look like them. In fact,…

NeNe Leakes, the seldom-disputed Queen Bee of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, recently announced that, after seven seasons, she is departing the hit Bravo TV reality series that made her a household name. Leakes, who tearfully bid farewell to the show to take advantage of the “opportunity to spread my wings and do different things,”…

Brittany “Bree” Newsome has spoken out about her powerful climb up a pole in South Carolina to remove a “banner of racial intimidation and fear”: the Confederate flag. The controversial emblem stood—and still stands, waving like a taunting child sticking its tongue out—above the Statehouse grounds. Daily, it reminds those who were tortured under its…