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  • The Climate Change Debate: Black People Are Being Left Out and That Can Be Deadly

    When Bloomberg Media convened an invitation-only forum of notables on “The Future of Climate Change” during the first weekday of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last summer, there was only one black person at the table. When that person, economist Julianne Malveaux, finally asked what that event’s cross section of environmentalist elite were doing…

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  • President Obama Is Really Leaving, Will Deliver Farewell Address in Chicago

    As we move closer to the final days of an actual adult presidency, the reality that we’re letting go of scandal-free years is starting to set in. President Barack Obama didn’t help matters when he announced Monday that he would be delivering his farewell speech in his hometown of Chicago on Jan. 10. “I’m just…

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  • House GOP Reverses Vote to Gut Ethics Committee

    Updated Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, 1:08 p.m. EST: Even President-elect Donald Trump thought Republicans focused their attention on the wrong issues after they held a closed-door vote to weaken the independent ethics committee created to keep lawmakers honest. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted: According to Politico, GOP members heard the president-elect and public’s displeasure with their…

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  • Adam 'Pacman' Jones Arrested; Reportedly Kicked Officer and Spit on Nurse

    It seemed as if Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Adam “Pacman” Jones had finally turned it around after a series of arrests since entering the NFL in 2005. He’d demanded that NFL announcers call him Adam and not by his nickname, “Pacman,” when referring to him. For years, he seemed to stay out of trouble. But…

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  • Obama Designates 1.35 Million Acres in Utah to Protect Native Lands

    In yet another move meant to cement his legacy as an environmental advocate, President Barack Obama recently designated 1.35 million acres of land in Utah for a new national monument, one meant to protect Native lands and precious environmental resources. The Bears Ears National Monument is 1.35 million acres of public land, “redrock country rich…

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  • Iconic Hollywood Sign Defaced to Read ‘Hollyweed’

    A creative prankster changed the iconic ”Hollywood” sign over Los Angeles by manipulating it to read “Hollyweed,” CNN reports. The vandal used tarps to change the O’s in the sign to E’s. He (police think the perpetrator is probably a man) was caught on security-camera footage between midnight and 2 a.m. local time Sunday, but…

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  • President Obama Outlines His Greatest Hits on Twitter

    President Barack Obama and his family return to White House from their annual Hawaiian vacation today, but the president still managed to hit his Twitter account on the first day of the New Year. As with the rest of us, the president may realize that he is really looking at his last days in office. For…

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  • Beyond the Hashtag: Black Films Have Shown Much Promise Since #OscarsSoWhite

    As remote as 2015 now feels, it’s hard to forget, as the award season rolls around again, the groundswell caused by the hashtag that became the David to Hollywood’s Goliath. After the Academy Award nominations in February 2016 essentially shut out people of color in several categories two years in a row, social media erupted…

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  • New Year’s Resolutions Y’All Can Actually Keep

    For far too many well-intentioned souls, New Year’s resolutions are the life-affirmation equivalent of a deadbeat dad telling his kid he’ll be right back before hightailing it to a place only an expensive private investigator can find. Some of you will indeed join a gym, but only a few of you will make it beyond…

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  • 17 Wishes for 2017

    If I squint with my good eye and drink something potent out of a red Solo cup, 2016 doesn’t seem so bad—from an entertainment perspective, anyway. So, as we move forward into the new year, here are some things I’d very much like to see. That is to say, if 2017 doesn’t end early because…

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