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Kerry Washington is notoriously hush-hush about her private life, so what a surprise when she stepped out with her husband, Nnamdi Asomugha, at the Golden Globes after-party. According to the Huffington Post, the couple was spotted partying at the Weinstein Co. and Netflix party at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday. Washington, who was dressed in…

If you see a black man in West Virginia—any black man—he could be a person the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department is interested in because of suspicious activity. No, seriously. Over the weekend, Morgantown, W.Va.’s Dominion Post published a blurb describing how the sheriff’s department was looking for a man involved in some suspicious activity, according…

Unpaid loans to slain Brooklyn, N.Y., slumlord Menachem “Max” Stark contributed to the demise of Chicago’s Broadway Bank, which served high-profile customers such as President Barack Obama and had ex-Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon as a board member, the New York Post reports. Two sizable loans to Stark, in addition to 15 other bad bets…

Beyoncé’s feminism is undoubtedly about to be analyzed over the next few days – as it was when her album was first released – after an essay published in the Shriver Report, in response to the report revealing that 42 million women in the USA are living in or on the brink of poverty, The…

Would Beyoncé be interesting to hang out with in person? Is she really, truly musically talented? Does she deserve to be called a feminist? Is she actively scheming to heal deep-seated African-American cultural wounds by letting her 2-year-old’s hair look like a 2-year-old’s hair? Welcome to the list of highly subjective and largely unanswerable questions…

I’m worried that Marissa Alexander might end up becoming another Claudette Colvin. Colvin was the teenager who in March of 1955—nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the civil rights movement by famously refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man—was hauled off a bus, handcuffed and jailed for doing the same thing.…

It’s been a great year thus far for black women in comedy, and it looks like it’s about to get even better. Amber Ruffin, an alumna of Second City in Chicago, will be joining Late Night With Jimmy Fallon as a staff writer—and with that will win the title of the first black woman, and…

Philadelphia Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson’s home was robbed of cash, jewelry and a handgun, totaling some $250,000, ESPN reports.  The burglary to Jackson’s Philadelphia home happened while he was on vacation, and according to police reports viewed by ESPN, there was no sign of forced entry. Jackson’s mother, who discovered the apparent burglary on Saturday…