EDITORIAL

Can you remember the exact moment that Lil B became a big deal? As hard as I try to, I can’t. I just remember waking up one day and Lil B was all over my timeline cooking. It wasn’t the music. Honestly, it wasn’t ever the music. It was the fact that somehow the guy […]

Whether you’re a curious newcomer or diehard fan, chances are the upcoming Entourage movie has managed to fly across your radar in some shape or fashion. Over the course of eight seasons, HBO delivered us a worthy depiction of brotherhood, camaraderie and perseverance. It just so happened to be set underneath the vice-laden lights of […]

Last Sunday (May 10), police in Kentucky shot John Kennedy Fenwick after a car chase that ended in a deputy shooting the suspect during a fight. The sheriff for the county where the incident took place held a press conference Monday (May 11) and expressed what seemed to be relief that Fenwick wasn’t a Black […]

Baltimore is considerably calmer in the days since the so-called riots that broke out last Monday (April 27), yet an ominous haze still hangs over the city despite recent developments in the Freddie Gray case. From Monday to Friday, I was there to report on what was transpiring and observed varying expression of anger, passion, and […]

In 2006, Floyd Mayweather Jr. hatched a plan that would forever change the landscape of boxing and transform him from an elite boxer nicknamed “Pretty Boy” with decent fanfare to the polarizing personality who has become the highest paid athlete in the world.

A pair of white female students at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas are in hot water after a rap track about lynching Black boys they recorded surfaced. The two students have written apologies to their friends and others students, but shifted the blame onto society for their racist and offensive lyrics.

So, this is what it has come to?

South African comedian Trevor Noah is learning a harsh lesson about American media, this after he’s been under constant criticism after the announcement that he’d be taking over hosting duties on The Daily Show. Noah’s Twitter history has been called into question, with some calling him a misogynist and anti-semitic.

Bill Helton, a city commissioner for Elk City in Oklahoma and a mayoral candidate, is apologizing for a series of racially insensitive videos. Helton, who also works as a hair stylist, donned blackface and dressed as a Black woman named Pollyester Kotton.

The ongoing situation regarding the viral video of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon members from the University of Oklahoma adds yet another wrinkle. The Black OU SAE frat house cook is out of a job since the national chapter shut it down, but two crowdfunding campaigns have been robust in the wake of the closure.

The Washington Wizards were an early surprise in the first half of the NBA season, with many analysts picking them to go deep into the playoffs. Now struggling, top officials are sinking the franchise’s hopes even lower after an awfully vain Black History Month photo full of struggle.

If you’ve never heard of Paris fashion brand A.P.C. and its founder, Jean Touitou, don’t worry, we’ll catch you up. Over the weekend, Mr. Touitou presented his fall line with models rocking “ghetto” Timberlands on the runway and the designer holding up a sign that read “LAST NI**AS IN PARIS” – yes, you read that […]