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Thursday night’s edition of The Daily Show was filled with a somber and serious Jon Stewart after a racially motivated terrorist attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., left nine people dead. Stewart’s opening monologue concerned the never-ending violence that plagues the country and the racism that is behind it: I…

Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Mich., made headlines in May when she officially became the world’s oldest woman after the deaths of Misao Okawa of Osaka, Japan, at age 117, and Gertrude Weaver of Camden, Ark., at 116. Talley, who knew how to rock a church hat like no other, died at the age of 116.…

One has to wonder what the home life of Rachel Dolezal consisted of, but one also can’t take her word for anything nowadays, considering that she lied about her background. But a recently unearthed blog written by Rachel’s black adopted sister, Esther, shows a family in strife and conflict. The 20-year-old Esther Dolezal’s blog provides a telling…

Let’s just call it what it is as mainstream media finds the nicest ways to describe what happened at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal 9 p.m. Wednesday. Social media has been riled up, and with good reason, for the last several hours as news about the massacre develops. What have we so far? A deranged white…

Tyra Banks has been strutting her stuff down runways and appearing on the covers of magazines since her teens, but it’s not often that you’ll see her in her “I woke up like this” naturalness. On Wednesday the model-turned-TV host gave fans something to talk about when she posted a makeup-free and unfiltered selfie. “You know…

Attorney General Loretta Lynch found time in her busy schedule to join Twitter Wednesday. In April, after five months of having her nomination held up, Lynch was sworn in as the U.S. attorney general, replacing Eric Holder. Lynch is the first African-American woman to serve in the role. Hello, Twitter! Excited to join the conversation…

Ava DuVernay has proved herself to be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the art of storytelling in film. With films like I Will Follow and Selma, DuVernay’s talent will surely catapult her to becoming known as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. Or should I write one of the “greatest black…

Tuesday afternoon, while wearing a flaxen blond toupee, Donald Trump announced that he was running for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 election. That now makes it about 200 people running for the Republican nomination. “We need somebody who can take the brand of the United States and make it great again,” he said.…

Veganism isn’t for everyone, but occasionally it doesn’t hurt to try something different if you’re a meat eater. Nowadays, you can get vegan food that actually tastes like nonvegan food and even dishes that your grandmother used to cook for Sunday dinner. A group of comedians with All Def Digital had the pleasure of taste-testing…

Last week, actress Teyonah Parris tweeted about an older white man touching her hair without permission. But apparently this is still an epidemic, and now Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, says she, too, had a close encounter with the touchy-feely kind. DuVernay, who has long dreadlocks, tweeted about a recent run-in with someone who touched her…