Source: Aaron Rapoport / Getty Don’t you just love a good Black sitcom? Even though the heyday is long gone, the Black sitcom era that spanned from the early 1970s and peaked sometime in the mid 2000s gave us some of the greatest television moments of all time, not to mention leaving us with classi...

Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images / Getty The New Jersey airport restaurant that a New York Times columnist apparently tried to disingenuously shame over the cost of a meal just happens to be owned by Black men who clearly took umbrage at the suggestion. David Brooks, who...

Source: Christian Petersen / Getty Sha’Carri Richardson had the internet smitten over her natural hair after she competed in the Diamond League Final in Eugene, Oregon with her curly afro on full display.   Richardson, 23, came in fourth place after she blazed through the women’s 100-meter competit...

Source: VALERIE MACON / Getty   When it comes to the world of Hollywood, one the biggest deciding factors between a classic movie and a Razzie nominee directly correlates to how well (or not!) its leading actors did in front of the camera. The same audience that praised Titantic thanks to a captiva...

Source: Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty For more than half a century, colleges and universities have relied on dedicated programs to attract students of color and support them. Today, those programs – known as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs – are under attack. Republican lawmakers ass...

The University of Alabama has condemned the actions of its fans following the football team’s upset loss to the University of Texas. According to a report from ABC News, the university released a statement to the outlet via a spokesperson that strongly denounces a viral video in which Alabama fans ...

The United States Postal Service celebrated the life and legacy of the late Rep. John Lewis (1940-2020), a long-term Congressperson and key figure in several pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement, by issuing a Forever stamp on Friday with his portrait. The issue date was marked with a ceremo...

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) I’m back with another batch of tracks. “AfroBowie” is a collection devoted to David Bowie, who,  in a 1976 Playboy interview, described his own album Young Americans as “the definitive plastic soul record. It’...

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Mavis Staples is eighty-four years old as I peck these words. She has been a gospel and soul singer longer than Elizabeth II wore the crown. Many R&B vocalists started in gospel music, though she and her famil...

“Donayle Luna was the first Black woman to be on the cover of Vogue. Why don’t we know more about her?” This pointed question from the recently released trailer for Donyale Luna: Super Model will hopefully no longer be relevant after the feature-length documentary about Luna’s life and career debut...

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Happy Labor Day, y’all! It is no toil for me to offer up another playlist on this holiday Monday. After June’s AfroBowie collection, our editor-in-chief, Lori Lakin Hutcherson, suggested a few more in a series...

Source: Kevin C. Cox / Getty We all know that when Black student-athletes complain about the racist taunts they receive from white sports fans, it’s an uphill battle to get white people to believe them. If there’s no crystal-clear video evidence that shows people in the stands hurling bigoted slurs...