It humbles National Urban League (NUL) president and CEO Marc H. Morial to hear his name mentioned in the same sentence as baseball legend and civil rights icon Hank Aaron. The accomplished organizational leader stood in high cott...
The legendary scholar, writer and visionary James Baldwin once personally confided to me that he had come to know that the “power of the pen” for Black people in America and throughout the world was “truly transformative and irrev...
NBC News is reporting legendary boxer and activist Muhammad Ali has died. Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed t...
A couple’s son is missing in Japan (right now) because they left him in the wilderness to teach him a lesson, but folks want to start a petition to have the child who wandered into the gorilla pit at Cincinnati zoo removed f...
CBS Local (Baltimore) is reporting arresting officer Edward Nero has been found not guilty on all counts by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams Monday morning. The article states: “Nero faced second-degree assa...
When Spelman College’s 10th president Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell asked filmmaker, writer, actor and producer Spike Lee to come back to Atlanta, he wasted no time revisiting where his illustrious career all began. The astute, brow-r...
Comedian W. Kamau Bell wants to spark conversations about society with his new CNN docuseries United Shades of America. In eight episodes, the perceptive, six-foot-four Bay Area native travels and interacts with ethnically distinc...
Taryn Finley of The Huffington Post is reporting 100 percent of Chicago’s Urban Preparatory Charter School’s senior class is college bound for the seventh consecutive year. Finley reports: “Every senior at the pr...
Brendan O’Brien of Reuters is reporting 11 women have reached a settlement with a California wine train company they sued for $11 million for racial discrimination after they were kicked off the train for being too loud, the...
Fashion designers Dalen Spratt and Juwan Mass, along with their barber Marcus Harvey, are the epitome of going where no man has gone before. The trailblazing trio is making history as television’s first paranormal investigation te...
