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Most people know her as the wife of famed rapper/actor LL Cool J, but Simone Smith is much more. With the launch of her jewelry…

Each year in the U.S., about 795,000 people suffer a stroke, according to the American Heart Association. Put another way, one American has a stroke…

Gays are now one step closer to widespread overpriced weddings, even costlier divorces, and breakups so severe that only vintage Mary J. Blige and generic anti-depressants can help dampen the pain. Clearly, I’m ecstatic over the Supreme Court ruling that legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as their heterosexual counterparts, invalidating a […]

UPDATE: 6:21 A.M. EST: Texas state Senator Wendy Davis thanks supporters on Twitter: UPDATE: 3:21 A.M. EST: Despite the Associated Press prematurely reporting to the contrary, Senator Wendy Davis meets with reporters in the rotunda of the state capitol and officially announces that SB5 is dead. The crowd is still cheering. ——————————————————————————————————- Sen. John Whitmire, […]

Nakia Grimes (pictured) went through nearly 37 years of life as a woman, never once thinking that one day she would be asked to prove she is a female. When going through the grueling process of getting her driver’s license renewed, Grimes never noticed that  there was an “X” marked in the male gender box on her […]

The always controversial Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (pictured) threw a hissy fit on Monday in a concurring opinion on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Thomas joined the majority Supreme Court opinion in sending the dispute back to the federal appellate court for further proceedings. In classic Thomas fashion, he argued against Affirmative Action […]

Earlier this year, a Census Bureau report confirmed, for the first time in history, that Black people vote at a higher percentage than whites in a presidential election. And now, it’s time for our punishment. Now more than ever, there is proof that, with the changing demographics of this country, the only way Republicans can perform well in […]

Evita Robinson and Kimberly Bryant are no strangers to crowd-funding. In fact, it’s safe to call them experts. In 2011, Robinson turned her love for travel and cinematography into a bourgeoning brand by creating the Nomadness Travel Tribe, an online community for travelers around the world. These days, Robinson and her “tribe,” as she refers […]

In perfect symmetry with the racist, flippant,  insincere and insensitive rhetoric spewed by George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, his defense attorney, Don West, opened the closely watched trial with a knock knock joke. Yes, a knock knock joke. After telling the jury not to hold the […]

Professional bloggers, social media mavens, and speakers from all over the country packed the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture this past Friday and Saturday, June 21 – 22, 2013, for the annual Blogging While Brown Conference held in New York City. Attendees heard from dozens of speakers on topics ranging from blogging and branding to podcasts […]

What exactly is  in a Twinkie, anyway? Hostess is betting on a sweet comeback for Twinkies when they return to shelves this July. The company that…