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Jaylon Sewell is a good kid. Just 16 years old, he’s an active leader in his local church, a good student, and manager for the football team at Neville High School in Monroe, Louisiana. Suddenly, he’s found himself in a deeply unfamiliar place after...

The recent mass shooting by Elliot Rodger is a teachable opportunity for sistas to review the modern culture of lame black males and the activities these brothas are engaged in that can be harmful to our sistas. The Pickup Artist or PUA subculture online...

They were dressed neatly in all black, weaving past one another, their voices tangled in a mix of determination and drive. Black to the Future: Black Fashion and Culture Then and Now was the first large event put on by Black Women’s Organization. Meant...

By now you may just have heard about Miley Cyrus’s performance at the VMAs last night. But if somehow you’ve managed to avoid the whole thing, it went like this: Miley twerked. Miley sang with Robin Thicke. Miley slapped the ass of one of...

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, blaming Black culture for racial inequality remains the dominant narrative for the U.S. political establishment--and not only on the right. Jonah Birch and Paul Heideman explain, in an article written for Jacobin...