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Lauryn Hill has been pissing people off for the last few years with her persistent lateness.

I want my future daughter to love the skin she's in.

The topic of race relations settled a dark cloud over a 10-year-old’s birthday party in Tennessee last week, when a friend of another race wrote a letter…

Enigmatic rapper Jay Electronica has been the talk of the town since he surprised fans at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival with a cameo from Jay…

The death of Maya Angelou sent the world reeling. Many are still trying to process the passing of such an iconic global figure. While everyone…

Dear Christmas, Holiday Greetings! This is your old friend, Thanksgiving. Long time no hear from. I hope your year went better than mine. I won’t…

Ontario police are looking into the origin of a appalling, hate-filled letter sent to a woman caring for an autistic child. The anonymous writer addressed the child in a number of disparaging and disgusting ways, referring to him as a “wild animal kid” and suggesting he be euthanized. Karley Begley, the mother of the child […]

Ishema Kane, a nine-year-old Black german girl from Frankfurt, has written a letter to the editors of the german weekly newspaper ZEIT and its recent “defense” of the continued use of racist language in children’s books (and everywhere else, for that matter). Ishema clarifies that neither she nor any other Black person is an N*, and that it certainly […]

Friday, ESPN columnist Jemele Hill revealed media members are not immune from criticism themselves. Hill posted a letter she received from ‘some guy’ after several appearances on “The Herd” with ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd last year.  The letter is filled with racist language directed at Hill. In addition to her role as columnist for ESPN.com, Hill appears on a variety of […]

Oh, this is RICH! In August of 1865, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee wrote his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, requesting that he come back to his farm to work. Jourdon Anderson had already been emancipated and was gainfully employed and providing for his family in Ohio at this point. His response to the […]