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Days after the tragic death of Prince at age 57, the pop legend’s music is predictably swelling in sales. USA Today reports that on the day he was pronounced dead, Prince sold a total of 231,800 albums—a staggering jump from the 4,300 sold during the week preceding it. His greatest-hits album The Very Best of…

Now that our very own Moses, Harriet Tubman, has been confirmed to appear on the $20 bill, her home in upstate New York is one step closer to becoming a National Historical Park, reports the Associated Press.  After the Civil War, Tubman retired to her home in Auburn, N.Y., the site of the proposed National…

Now, there has been a long-standing rumor that the reason Beyoncé’s sister Solange opened up a can of whup-ass on Bey’s husband Jay Z in that elevator two years ago was that he was getting a little too close to designer Rachel Roy, who also happened to be his ex-business partner Dame Dash’s ex-wife. Well…

Prince Rogers Nelson’s body was cremated Friday, hours after his body was released from the coroner’s office, according to several reports. The Daily Mirror says that a source close to the late singer, who died Thursday at age 57, said that Prince had “very precise ideas” of how he wanted to be laid to rest,…

A recently released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in 30 years, with increases in every age group except older adults and black men, reports the New York Times. The good news for black men is especially heartening…

The Democratic governor of Virginia announced Friday that more than 206,000 people convicted of felonies will now be eligible to vote in the state. Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order Friday restoring the civil rights of both nonviolent and violent former offenders after they complete their sentence and all other requirements, such s supervised probation or…

No matter what the circumstances of his death, those who honor, revere and love Prince know that the contributions of his masterful life are what truly matter. And though he was not always vocal about it, Prince loved blackness and black people, and this especially extended to young people. Pundit and advocate Van Jones remembers…

In yet another tragic mass shooting, a 50-year-old Georgia man took the lives of five people before turning the gun on himself Friday. Local station WRDW reports that Wayne Anthony Hawes was discovered dead at his home in Appling, Ga, a town that is part of the Augusta, Ga., metropolitan area. Police say that Hawes…