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Jussie Smollett's brother, Jocqui Smollett, is pointing fingers at the Black community for our lack of support for his brother's hate crime allegation saying, "Our community innately has a lot of homophobia in it."

Jacob Rush, a straight-A student at Abeka Academy in Pensacola, Florida, was being forced by school administrators to cut his locs in order to participate in his graduation ceremony until his mother,  Latrenda Rush, started a Change.org petition in protest, gaining over 53,000 signatures.

During a demonstration that saw multiple Howard University professors in attendance along with students, some faculty members threatened to execute a strike if certain working conditions are not addressed.

Our Women's History Month spotlight is still going strong, and March is also Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month. This week we will spotlight a gifted journalist, on-air personality and writer, Elizabeth Smith. Read our interview with Smith about her journey with endometriosis while climbing the entertainment ladder.

HBCUs that experienced bomb threats could apply for grant funds and other resources as a part of the Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) program, the Department of Education announced.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that Omarosa Manigault Newman is still on the hook for more than $61k for failing to file financial information required by all White House staffers who leave or are terminated from their positions.

Monica Cannon-Grant, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Violence in Boston, found that out the hard way after she and her husband were indicted then charged with federal fraud crimes. The

During an appearance at an event at Sugar Hill Church in Sugar Hill, Ga., Herschel Walker challenged the theory of evolution by asking, “At one time, science said man came from apes. Did it not?” and "If that is true, why are there still apes?"

Polo Ralph Lauren has created some conversation amongst the HBCU Community in their latest release involving Spelman College and Morehouse College. James Jeter is the man who is largely responsible for the new collection.

Xerox CEO Ursula Burns argued that working moms shouldn't be expected to do it all in today's society.

During the "lesson" at J.S. Waters School in Goldston, North Carolina, Black students were reportedly "sold" by white students presumably to demonstrate what went on during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But why, though?

Now-former Democratic party deputy treasurer Barbara Goldberg Goldman stepped down following an email she wrote to party members questioning whether Maryland could successfully elect a Black candidate for governor.