*Disclaimer: Donald Trump is no longer co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization nor is he affiliated in anyway. No black cards were sacrificed in exchange for this post. The 2016 Miss Universe pageant may be one of the blackest on record and not just because Steve Harvey is hosting. Ladies and …

It was the ass-whooping seen around the world. A local news crew captured video of Baltimore resident Toya Graham dragging her 16-year-old son away from the melee at Mondawmin Mall Monday, where protestors, many of them teens, hurled bricks and other objects towards police. Cameras were rolling as she  chased him, …

Emotions are raw and tensions high in Baltimore, Maryland where outraged Black residents continue to protest the death of Freddie Gray. Gray died from a mysterious spinal cord injury on Sunday, one week after he was taken into custody by Baltimore police. According to the family attorney, William Murphy, Gray …

Geneva Pablo Picasso had his blue period. Geneva has her black periods. La vie noir. Crazy stretches of time when the world’s rotation slows and seconds inflate like beads of water. Everything is covered in soot. It feels like the sun doesn’t want to rise. Like even the sun doesn’t …

Legendary songstress Patti Labelle is set to appear on this season’s Dancing With The Stars and I’m here for it. From watching her on Out All Night and A Different World as a kid, to playing “If Only You Knew” on repeat,  I love me some Patti.   And I love dance, so the …

  Let me first emphatically state that I do not watch Dr. Phil. The man has no chill and his particular brand of therapy is essentially exploitation wrapped in condescension. But, it was the middle of the day. The tv was on CBS 2,  and when I saw  Bobbi Kristina …

  I’ve never been big on selfies. Not that I’m too modest, just too self conscious to hold a camera that close to my face  and snap a candid shot. I’m the first person to confess that I didn’t wake up like this. In spite of those  hang ups,  I …

It was a typical Saturday evening at the symphony, when rebellion crept through the walls of polite society in a magical way.  Patrons of the St. Louis  Symphony were shocked Saturday when  a flash mob of  demonstrators serenaded the audience with a song dedicated to slain teen Michael Brown. This …

Back in October 2013, 27-year-old single mother of two, Shaneen Allen, was pulled over on the New Jersey Turnpike in Atlantic City for making an “unsafe lane change”. When the officer approached, Allen divulged that she was carrying a gun in her purse, the 38-caliber Bersa Thunder she legally purchased in …

  Sundiata Acoli was ordered released on parole by a state appeals court Monday, the uncertain finale in 40 year old  case that still evokes deep emotions. Acoli was convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper along with fellow Black Panther Party activist Assata Shakur, formerly Joanne Chesimard. …

If you think the NFL’s domestic violence problem has been talked to death, there’s one interested party that begs to differ. The leaders of several national black women’s organizations have written a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asking for a meeting. In the national conversation about domestic violence that …

If  Solange-Gate taught us anything, it’s that what happens in an elevator, rarely stays in that elevator. But perhaps NFL commissioner Roger Goodell missed that memo. Days after Ray Rice punched and dragged his former girlfriend, now wife, Janay Palmer, in an elevator at the Revel Casino NFL leadership sprang …