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Attorney General Loretta Lynch found time in her busy schedule to join Twitter Wednesday. In April, after five months of having her nomination held up, Lynch was sworn in as the U.S. attorney general, replacing Eric Holder. Lynch is the first African-American woman to serve in the role. Hello, Twitter! Excited to join the conversation…

Ava DuVernay has proved herself to be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the art of storytelling in film. With films like I Will Follow and Selma, DuVernay’s talent will surely catapult her to becoming known as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. Or should I write one of the “greatest black…

Tuesday afternoon, while wearing a flaxen blond toupee, Donald Trump announced that he was running for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 election. That now makes it about 200 people running for the Republican nomination. “We need somebody who can take the brand of the United States and make it great again,” he said.…

Veganism isn’t for everyone, but occasionally it doesn’t hurt to try something different if you’re a meat eater. Nowadays, you can get vegan food that actually tastes like nonvegan food and even dishes that your grandmother used to cook for Sunday dinner. A group of comedians with All Def Digital had the pleasure of taste-testing…

Last week, actress Teyonah Parris tweeted about an older white man touching her hair without permission. But apparently this is still an epidemic, and now Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, says she, too, had a close encounter with the touchy-feely kind. DuVernay, who has long dreadlocks, tweeted about a recent run-in with someone who touched her…

On the heels of resigning as president of the Spokane, Wash., branch of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal finally spoke out on the controversy over her deceiving people about her racial background. During Dolezal’s interview Tuesday with Matt Lauer on the Today show, the first question he asked, of course, had to deal with her race.…

On Monday, Spokane, Wash., NAACP Chapter President Rachel Dolezal issued her resignation via a Facebook post on the chapter’s page. This came on the heels of Dolezal’s cancellation of a press conference that was supposed to be held earlier on Monday for her to address the recent allegations from her parents that she’s a white…

And she’s back! Janet Jackson has announced a world tour that kicks off Aug. 31 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Jackson’s Unbreakble World Tour is a precursor to her upcoming fall album release. According to a press release, tickets go on sale June 22 at JanetJackson.com, but those with an American Express card can grab presale…

Remember the episode of Chappelle’s Show that included a “racial draft”? Well, with all the talk about Rachel Dolezal, the comedian weighed in while visiting his alma mater in Washington, D.C., to give a commencement address. But first, let’s take a look back at Chappelle’s racial draft. “We have got to start arguing about who…

MC Supreme, best known for his single “Black in America,” was killed Sunday after a car crash in Malibu, Calif., according to the Associated Press. According to reports, the rapper and a woman were sitting in his car on the shoulder of the Pacific Coast Highway when it was hit by a pickup truck.The car rolled…