Kanye West probably won’t be making peace with President Barack Obama any time soon, but that doesn’t mean the pseudo-feud between the two men will continue either. “I’m not gonna mention him no more, I’m past that,” West told Hot 107.9 in Philly’s Morning Show interview, which aired Monday. “That’s out my thoughts. That’s lowering my priority of…

Civil rights icon the Rev. Theodore Judson Jemison, one of the organizers of the 1953 Baton Rouge, La., bus boycott, died on Friday at the age of 95, The Advocate reports. The bus boycott served as a template for the nonviolent, yearlong Montgomery Bus Boycott planned by Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.   According…

Don Lemon had an interesting guest on his CNN show, CNN Newsroom, over the weekend: The Guardian columnist Orville Lloyd Douglas, who wrote the controversial article “Why I Hate Being a Black Man.” In his piece, which sparked widespread debate on the Internet, Douglas cited the negative stereotype of being a criminal, and people’s fear…

As the mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker was always protective of his personal life, particularly when it came to romantic relationships. In fact, he was so evasive that many questioned his sexuality, believing him to be gay. But he may not be guarding his relationships so heavily as the newly elected senator of New…

One of the stars of HBO’s Treme has launched an expansive federal class-action lawsuit against the Macy’s department store for allegedly singling out customers of color for criminal suspicion. According to New York’s Daily News, Rob Brown charged Macy’s with “policies and practices [that] have left … customers of color feeling victimized, humiliated, traumatized [across the…

A group of five men who were imprisoned as teenagers for a brutal rape they did not commit are looking to have a conversation with a second victim of the real perpetrator in hopes of settling their lawsuit against the city of New York, the Huffington Post reports. The Central Park Five, as they are…

According to Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, African-American and Latino voters (non-Republican ones, anyway) are “uninformed” and “deceived.” It was recently discovered that the evangelical pastor gave a speech back in February to conservative activists and took up a previous speaker’s point that Hispanics were uninformed or deceived, the Huffington Post reports. “The same thing…