TWITTER REACTS: KANYE, “SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE.”

During a TMZ conversation, Kanye West stated slavery “sounds like a choice.” In addition to that faux pas,  he added “When you hear about slavery for...

Mortgage Lending To Poor Under Attack And Blacks, Hispanics Priced Out Of Housing Markets

According to Forbes, Reports that the Trump administration planned a big revision to the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act came out in January. The CRA is a long-standing...

Zimbabwe will issue cannabis licences to growers

Zimbabweans can now apply for licences to grow cannabis for medical and research purposes, the government has said in a legal notice, making the southern African nation...

Kanye West Ends His year-long Twitter silence with a Rant

Kanye West said on Wednesday that he had fired his manager and suggested he may run for U.S. president in a frenetic Twitter spree in which he promised four new albums...

Meek Mill speaks out following release from prison

Rapper Meek Mill was granted bail by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday after being sentenced in November to two to four years in prison for a probation violation...

A disturbing video of Police officers forcing a black woman to the ground at an Alabama Waffle House, exposing her breasts, sparks outrage after going viral

A viral video shows police officers physically forcing a black woman to the ground, exposing her breasts in the process, at an Alabama Waffle House location. The...

J Cole ‘KOD’ Review: “a brilliantly brooding antidote to hip-hop excessiveness”

When J Cole announced the imminent arrival of KOD earlier this week, some of excitement was caused by the tracklisting: not the titles themselves so much as the fact...

A Texas School Asked Its Students To List The Positive Aspects of Slavery

A Texas charter school is apologizing after a teacher gave an assignment to an eighth grade American History class, asking students to list the positive aspects of...

Marijuana’s 4/20’s Fifty Year Old History Began in California

Friday is April 20, or 4/20. That’s the numerical code for marijuana’s high holiday, a homage to pot’s enduring appeal and universal slang for smoking....

Prosecutor won’t file charges in Prince’s death

The prosecutor in the Minnesota county where Prince died said Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed in the musician’s death, effectively ending the...