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For categorization purposes, I am considered a millennial. But two things are very clear, when I enter the room—I am a woman and I am Black.

Watch the outgoing POTUS talk the broken news media, marijuana legalization and religion, uncut on HBO.

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Hillary's 2016 campaign for the Oval Office is a lot like Jay Z's 2003 campaign for best rapper alive.

Did Drizzy go too far, or is hip-hop becoming too sensitive for conflict?

The biopic cut deeper than Lifetime's usual brand of victim-porn by showing a single Black woman's struggle to navigate an industry that was built to prey on her.

We promised Michael some #LegitAnswers on Friday, and here they are, courtesy of @CoupCoup40Cal.

The people who didn't go support The Birth of A Nation because of Nate Parker's past are the same ones who want an insincere apology from Nate, rather than the real remorse and regret he feels.

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Parker said, "All I know is the film exists. You can kill the messenger, you can come for me, it’s alright."

Consent is not the absence of “no” or “stop.” It is the absence of yes.

Donald Glover's rise from token friend to primetime titan is about more than ratings.

From TIDAL to Roc Nation, to Made In America, Jay has given us the blueprint for flipping the script on oppressive power structures.

It's a huge slap in the face to the African-American community, which has been taunted for centuries for the way their hair locks, intertwines, and grows out.