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Washington, D.C.-area rapper Wale has teamed up with first lady Michelle Obama to promote the Reach Higher Initiative. On Thursday the first lady will host more than 130 college-bound students in D.C. for the 2015 Beating the Odds Summit. According to a press release, Obama, Wale and scholars will participate in a panel that will address…

Two college students took the 2015 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational by storm with their poem that describes some of the harshest realities black women face courtesy of some black men. Sometimes the strongest hatred toward black women comes from black men, and Crystal Valentine and Aaliyah Jihad’s poem, “To Be Black and Woman and…

After quitting his highly rated TV show and taking a break from the stage, Dave Chappelle is back and he’s wearing his comedic boxing gloves. Chappelle did whatever he had to do to regroup, and now, with dates in the U.S. and abroad, today’s racial issues will help craft his comedy material. On Saturday, Chappelle was…

For a while there, I was concerned that President Barack Obama wouldn’t do enough to earn a think piece describing all the ways he’s kept it “completely 100″—similar to the way we commended former Attorney General Eric Holder for keeping it “eight more than 92” last year.  Let me tell you, I fretted over this, had…

Rachel Dolezal and her box braids have turned their 15 minutes of fame into 17 minutes after a new interview with Vanity Fair. As my colleague Danielle Belton puts it, “Vanity Fair never interviews black people, so they found a fake one?” Dolezal’s interview includes tons of trans-rachel tears. Dolezal’s life after resigning from the…

It’s a great point. Caitlyn Jenner struggled for many years to live her truth publicly—that she was a woman trapped inside a man’s body—because of the backlash she anticipated she would receive if she were to live as a transgender woman. It was certainly very courageous of her to come forward to reveal her true…

It seems that a Connecticut judge is calling 50 Cent’s bluff. The Queens, N.Y., rapper was ordered to pay $5 million in compensatory damages to Lastonia Leviston, a woman who appears in a sex tape that 50 Cent allegedly leaked on the Internet in 2009. But 50 Cent abruptly filed for bankruptcy in federal court…

In the world of comedy, satire is the genre that often stings the most but tells the truth. Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or shake your head because the truth is thrown in your face, and that’s exactly what MTV has done with “White Squad.” The satirical ad aims to tackle white privilege and…

Ava DuVernay is never short on advice to Hollywood hopefuls, and during the 2015 BlogHer annual conference in New York City on Friday, the Selma director was blunt about how to get ahead in Hollywood. “You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They’ve got this thing wired,” DuVernay advised. “Too often, we live within their games, so…

Riley Curry is no longer America’s favorite 2-year-old. She’s now America’s favorite 3-year-old. Riley, daughter of Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha, celebrated her third birthday Sunday. Riley’s mom posted an Instagram of the adorable toddler dancing to Silento’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” “This is 3!!!” Ayesha Curry wrote Sunday. “Happy birthday baby girl! Never…