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On Saturday Maya Angelou’s homegoing will offer a chance to reflect on one of the less-often discussed aspects of her panoramic legacy: that of a radical political intellectual who indelibly shaped the times she lived in. The wealth of memorials and tributes honoring Angelou in the aftermath of her May 28 passing have acknowledged the…

Poet and author Maya Angelou will be memorialized in a private family ceremony Saturday at Wake Forest University. Since she died last week at age 86, resurfaced videos have served as reminders of her wise insights and powerful presence. As final goodbyes are said to the literary legend, we’re left with memories of Angelou in…

Restaurant owner, designer, decorator and model B. Smith has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, reports CBS News, which sat down with Smith in an interview set to air later this month. During the interview, Smith, the first African-American model to be featured on the cover of Mademoiselle, couldn’t recall the date, month or year. “Things…

When history looks back on President Barack Obama’s most significant accomplishments, championing the Affordable Care Act and signing it into law will be at the top of that list. His efforts to resolve America’s immigration crisis should belong on that list, too. But because of liberal overreach and political correctness, the president’s record on immigration…

I’m a married woman and have gone to lunch with a man 12 years younger for the past few days. He calls me his “big sis,” and we talk a lot about religion, sports, etc., but there’s nothing physical. Is this cheating? Disrespectful? My husband shouldn’t have a say, considering an affair he had in…

I have no idea who spoke during my college-graduation ceremony or what she (I think it was a woman) said. Chances are she talked about passion, service to others, following your dream, learning from failure, changing the world, fears, opportunity, blah, blah, blah. Commencement speeches often follow these worthy themes.  Here is what I wish…

Even Morehouse College, one of the nation’s most iconic black institutions, isn’t immune to the overreaching influence of mainstream (read: white) culture.  At least it seems that’s what visual artist Sanford Biggers wants us to consider in a recent untitled work depicting a gleeful blond woman wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of the historically…

Thirty-one-year-old Kyle Jones is in a relationship with a 91-year-old great-grandmother, Marjorie McCool, whom he met at a bookstore where he worked some five years ago when she was a spry 86-year-old. The two have been dating casually since then and have an active sex life.    Jones, of Augusta, Ga., is also dating a…