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In 2012 Stephanie Pitter, a former teaching assistant, school governor and mother of four from the United Kingdom, started a campaign for a mandatory black-history curriculum in primary education in the U.K. A website dedicated to the campaign, along with a petition that has already received more than 40,000 signatures, recently caught the attention of Selma’s…

Everyone watching the Grammys was in shock and awe when Prince presented Beck with the Album of the Year award, especially since he was in the same category as Beyoncé. Everyone also thought Kanye West was joking when he ran onstage, then immediately went back to his seat with a smile on his face—pretty much…

Year after year the Grammys prove that it doesn’t matter how talented you are when it comes to music. And every year, there’s always that one person who perfectly captures what the world is thinking when you’re sitting at home asking yourself, “How did Beyoncé just lose to Beck?” and “How long is this show?…

Communism! Still scary, apparently. At least to a gaggle of Republicans at Texas Tech University in Lubbock who want to bar civil rights activist Angela Davis from speaking on their campus, according to Fox 34 News. Said Carl Tepper, chair of the Lubbock County Republican Party and, seemingly, one of those whom the passage of…

We got just a … little … bit … closer to Issa Rae’s becoming a reality on our premium cable when we learned that HBO has officially ordered a pilot of her new show, Insecure. Rae, the woman behind the hit YouTube series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, co-created Insecure along with The Nightly…

In a week when magazine covers featuring black women—and starring the world’s worst Kerry Washington impersonator—went wrong, it was nice to see the leaked Lucky magazine cover featuring actress Lupita Nyong’o go right. Such natural lighting! A face that actually looks like her beautiful face! And so much excitement on social media. It’s such a…

For reasons not quite known, ex-Scandal star Columbus Short threatened to “murk”—aka murder—actor Jamie Foxx while in the middle of yet another alleged domestic violence blowup with an ex. According to TMZ, Short wilded out on his ex, fitness trainer to the stars Agostina Laneri, last week. After the incident, she got a restraining order…

On Wednesday, news spread far and wide that music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs didn’t want his adopted son, Quincy, to appear on Fox’s hit show Empire because of a squabble over money and song rights. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Quincy Combs was offered a spot on Lee Daniels’ soap hip-hopera, but…

Actress Kerry Washington’s InStyle cover dropped Wednesday to the sound of head-scratching across social media. In the new March edition, the typically lovely Scandal star appeared a little different from how she normally looks, cried Twitter. Well, maybe more than a little different. Some woman pretending to be Kerry Washington is on the cover of…

It’s a conversation I’ve had several times with my 15-year-old son. It’s a conversation I wish I’d never had to have with my 15-year-old son. But after the deaths of so many unarmed black men, it’s now a prerequisite every time he leaves the house. Giving tips on how to interact with the police is…