Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (1935 – 2016) was a Renowned psychiatrist, scholar, activist, teacher and author of the seminal 1991 work The Isis (Yssis) Papers: The Keys to the Colors and The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontati...
Model Ajak Deng leaves fashion industry over discrimination against dark-skinned models Ajak Deng, one of Australia’s best known model exports, announced her retirement from the fashion via Instagram on Tuesday nig...
Hollywood’s elite celebrated the year’s efforts to diversify entertainment Friday night at the NAACP Image Awards, where awards season diversity reigned as a hot topic in the wake of the controversy surrounding 2016’s O...
“Mule Bone,” the controversial 1930 Langston Hughes-Zora Neale Hurston play that is only now being produced for the first time, almost 60 years to the day after it was originally scheduled to open. Mule Bone&...
Dr. Carson’s modest beginnings are certainly what make his career success amazing and almost unfathomable. Born and raised in inner-city Detroit, Dr. Carson credits his mother Sonya’s influence with much of his succ...
Britton Johnson – A Legendary Black Cowboy An African-American cowboy, who was a legend in his own time, is barely known today. (There’s a reason for that, but we’ll get to “why not?” in a minute.) His name is Bri...
Maurice White, the founder of soul group Earth, Wind and Fire, has died at the age of 74. The singer/songwriter died in his sleep on Thursday in Los Angeles, his brother has confirmed. He had been suffering from Parkinson...
