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In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, we remember and celebrate the women who walked beside him in order to make our world a better place. Samuel L. Jackson Channels Martin Luther King For Ebony Mag [PHOTOS] “Precious” Director Begins Next Film, An MLK Biopic, With Kravitz

Hate speech permeates blogs, social networking sites, and discussion forums all over the world. Though inflammatory content may be protected as free speech by the U.S. Constitution, on the Internet it can have a greater potential to create a violent and fatal backlash.  Attacks on American soil are consistently linked to online hate speech: James […]

With so many people focused on dieting and being fit in the new year, I thought I would share this article by Gabrielle Johnson, a weight loss advocate.

As we prepared ourselves for the ridiculousness that was proposed by the newly elected Republicans of the 112th congress–the reading of the Constitution in full–some were wondering how far they were willing to go? Although many conservatives and tea partiers look at the Constitution as an infallible piece of awesomeness, others remember a key section […]

Of my three main New Year’s resolutions: 1. Stop getting angry as quickly, violently and easily, 2. Stop referring to other people and even thinking of them as “idiots”, 3. Say the word “relax” over and over to calm myself down The only one that wasn’t broken literally seconds after the clock struck 12 was […]

Well here we are; a new year has dawned upon us.

Welcome to the continuing Post-Racial-izing of America. EW.COM What is a word worth? According to Publishers Weekly, NewSouth Books’ upcoming edition of Mark Twain’s seminal novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will remove all instances of the “n” word—I’ll give you a hint, it’s notnonesuch—present in the text and replace it with slave. The new book will also remove […]

The beginning of a new year holds a great deal of promise. The promise is that we can and will do better. We should make this the year where we add “No More Pornography” to the list of resolutions.

Can you believe that this is the final week of 2010? 

Upon her untimely death at 54 years old, one simply cannot measure the gargantuan talent of Teena Marie — nee Mary Christine Brockert — by even the greatest of R&B standards. She was utterly unmatched; not even by the vocal dexterity of Mariah Carey, who perhaps had greater technical range, but who has to this […]