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Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens may have abused his power last week when he stopped a drug trial and dismissed an entire jury panel because it had too few Blacks.

Serena Williams graces the latest cover of WIRED magazine to explain how tech plays a huge role in her life, and reveals even more about her efforts to empower other women.

There's a lot of pressure to be the only one. Misty Copeland is the first Black principal dancer of any international ballet company. Ever.

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Viewers were confused to see the episode titled "Hot Ghetto Mess," with no indication for its reasoning - other than the episode's focus on Brown and diversity.

Davis opened up about her legendary Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy win and responded to criticism from actress Nancy Lee Grahn.

Matt Damon felt the heat from the hot water his recent comments about diversity landed him in, and unsurprisingly, he’s issued an apology. Earlier this week, The Martian actor shared his one-sided thoughts on diversity with a Black female producer. “When we’re talking about diversity, you do it in the casting of the film, not in the […]

WATCH: Matt Damon attempts to white-splain racial diversity to a black female producer in Hollywood. pic.twitter.com/NeMtz1tR94 — Tyree Boyd-Pates (@TyreeBP) September 14, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Matt Damon is known to be a highly-respectable actor in Hollywood, but social media certainly doesn’t respect his recent statements on racial diversity in the film industry. During the premiere episode of Project […]

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Six Black women have landed the covers of major mainstream publications this month. The saga continues in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

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Marvel has reinvented Moon Boy and the Devil and the Dinosaur with a new young Black woman named Moon Girl.

https://instagram.com/p/3wVB_JN7U3/?taken-by=lordeinc The latest victory in the struggle for diversity comes from 26-year-old Canadian Nafisa Kaptownwala, who has created the world’s first completely non-White modeling agency called Lorde Inc. Kaptownwala and a friend started Lorde in London last year and the agency is quickly emerging as one solution to the industry’s White-washed problems. The idea for a […]

On Monday, yet another model of color spoke out about the racism inherent in the fashion industry. South Sudanese model Nykhor Paul took to Instagram to vent about her most recent experience with a makeup artist being unable to work with her darker skin. Paul has been modeling since she was 17 years old and has appeared in […]

Brown and Black girls have been complaining about the lack of nude underwear that actually matches their melanin-infused skin tones for years now. And their prayers were answered when Ade Hassan created Nubian Skin in 2014. The bras, panties, and hosiery are specifically designed to come in a variety of shades to match the many different shades […]