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  • Geraldo Rivera Quits Yale After University Removes Slavery Supporter’s Name

    Geraldo Rivera, former talk show host, current Fox News contributor and, most importantly, the man who didn’t find anything in Al Capone’s vault, decided to resign from his voluntary position at Yale University after the school decided to change the name of a residential college that honored a slavery supporter. Rivera was an associate fellow…

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  • Solange Wins 1st Grammy and Shares Frank Ocean’s Grammy Diss

    Solange won her first Grammy Sunday night, but unless you were tuned into the Recording Academy’s Twitter account or social media, you probably wouldn’t have known that because the win wasn’t aired. Solange won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance for her song “Cranes in the Sky” from her 2016 album A Seat at the…

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  • Adele Showed Exactly What Solidarity Looks Like: Of Course Beyoncé Was Robbed at Grammys

    I can’t really pinpoint exactly when Adele realized that Beyoncé was robbed of a couple of Grammys, but as she took the stage during Sunday night’s award show to accept the Grammy for Album of the Year, she showed that solidarity was more important than a gold award. Adele swept the categories in which both…

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  • Department of Education’s Twitter Account Just Quoted Some Man Named W.E.B. DeBois

    One has to wonder if Betsy DeVos has taken over the Department of Education’s Twitter account, because someone just used a W.E.B. Du Bois quote but attributed it to some dude named W.E.B. DeBois. Now, before you go and blame an intern, nowadays most social media is actually run by full-time staff at government agencies.…

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  • The Greatest Love of All: Remembering Whitney

    I can’t exactly remember what I was doing at 8:22 p.m. on Feb. 11, 2012, but according to Facebook, that’s the exact time I found out Whitney Houston died. As a girl growing up in New Jersey, not too far from where Houston grew up, we took pride in her being one of Jersey’s own.…

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  • Actress Kali Hawk Celebrates Black History Month and Gives a Lesson in Johnny Depp’s ‘Black’ History

    In 2013, during promotion of Johnny Depp’s flop, I mean film, The Lone Ranger, it was alleged that Depp was a descendant of Elizabeth Key Grinstead, the first slave in the American colonies to sue for her freedom and win. Now, when you go to check the original Ancestry.com article that supposedly posted the findings,…

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  • Poor Betsy, Blocked From Entering a DC Public School

    It’s safe to say that Betsy DeVos still hasn’t been inside a public school. ABC 7 News caught a glimpse of what happened when the new education secretary tried to enter a Washington, D.C., public school. Operative word here is “tried.” Brave protesters blocked DeVos, and she was quickly escorted back into her blacked-out SUV.…

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  • Misty Copeland Publicly Denounces Under Armour CEO’s Pro-Trump Stance

    Misty Copeland isn’t letting the fact that she’s endorsed by Under Armour get in the way of her speaking out against the company’s CEO, Kevin Plank, and his pro-Donald Trump stance. The ballerina took to Instagram to explain why she disagrees with Plank. Earlier this week, Plank said, “To have such a pro-business president is…

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  • Anthony Anderson’s Mother Taught Him How to Perform Oral Sex

    Anthony Anderson got a little too candid for Conan O’Brien this week when he divulged that his mother was the one who taught him how to perform oral sex. “I’ll just cut to the chase: My mother taught me how to go downtown,” he said. “My mama taught me how to eat the cookie. Oral…

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  • Instead of a Cape, This Hero Teacher Wears a Du-Rag and Taught His Students How to Tie One

    If there’s one Twitter account that should be followed, it’s Washington, D.C., teacher Patrick Harris’. Harris commonly shares the achievements of his students and various life lessons, but a recent tweet shared something even more important recently. How to properly tie a du-rag. Although it’s not Durag History Week, which was created by The Atlantic’s…

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