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Nearly a month after Lamar Odom was discovered unconscious in a legal Las Vegas brothel, he is still struggling with communication and mobility, friends and family told TMZ. Sources told the entertainment-news site that he has made little progress in recent weeks and is only able “to speak a word here and there, and at…

Saturday Night Live spoofed Ben Carson’s fanciful claims of a violent childhood in a hilarious sketch called “The Adventures of Young Ben Carson,” according to the Daily Beast. Before kicking off the episode, the show’s Cecily Strong paid tribute to victims of the horrific Paris terror attacks. “Paris is the City of Light,” she said…

There aren’t many recently invented terms in our cultural lexicon that I enjoy using more than I enjoy using “white tears”—the phrase created to describe what happens when certain types of white people either complain about a nonexistent racial injustice or are upset by a nonwhite person’s success at the supposed expense of a white…

There’s a rumbling going on at college campuses across this nation. Racial tensions are high. For years, students have complained about racism and the lack of diversity in both the student body and faculty at the nation’s institutions of higher learning, only to have their concerns fall on deaf ears. So they have taken to…

Over the past week, some simmering tensions have reached a fever pitch, ignited by an article written by Bennett College alumna Aziza Jackson that calls for the end of the brother-sister relationship between Morehouse College and Bennett College because Morehouse sucks. While Jackson takes out most of her frustrations on her fellow “brothers” from Morehouse, she…

This week’s episode of Scandal set us up for next week’s big winter finale. At the beginning of the episode, Olivia Pope has yet to tell her boyfriend, President Fitz Grant, that she worked with his ex-wife, Mellie, to have her father, Rowan, released from prison in exchange for Rowan stopping the Senate’s impeachment investigation of Fitz’s…

In the wake of recent events at the University of Missouri, a troubling trend has emerged on social media. A number of black folks have decided that now is an appropriate time to openly question the college choices of the black students who enrolled at Mizzou, as well as other blacks who attend predominantly white…

We get a lot of history about Lucious’ childhood trauma in this episode. Lucious has taken on such a villainous role that the show may be trying to redeem him by explaining what made him this way. Lucious is so unlikable that he’s past the point of no return in my eyes, but his tale…

One evening, when I was 7 years old, my mother served peas for dinner. I hated peas with a passion. I ate everything else on my plate and then stared at the peas for a good 20 minutes. My mom made it clear that eating the peas was nonnegotiable. I slipped a few onto my…