Tupac Shakur will be inducted into the 2017 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Chic’s Nile Rodgers will be given the Award For Musical Excellence.
Kenan Thompson and Chance The Rapper pay homage to our Black president with “Jingle Barack” (sounds like “Jingle Bell Rock”) on SNL.
The top three reasons the president has given on the election loss for his party includes electoral miscalculation, Russian meddling and media mistreatment.
rapper and business.man., Shawn “Jay Z” Carter dropped the harrowing and deeply disturbing trailer for Time: The Kalief Browder Story on Facebook, an six-part series on the life and troubling death of a young Bronx man who committed suicide after spending three traumatic years on Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious jail.
Appetite for Change and youth from North Minneapolis, Minnesota, address food deserts and growing healthy food in their new viral video, "Grow Food."
An Ohio man, Christopher Lee Cornell, who planned to attack the U.S. Capitol address and kill President Obama during his 2015 State of the Union address was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday. Cornell had pledged his allegiance to ISIS.
Donald Trump has nominated Ben Carson as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; the former Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon accepted the position
Michael Slager testified in his own defense on Tuesday, getting grilled by prosecutors in the high-profile murder trial in the death of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who was shot five times.
President Obama’s approval ratings are the highest they’ve been since his decisive 2012 reelection. Fifty percent of Americans approve of him compared to 43 percent who do not.
President-elect Donald Trump said (or in fact Tweeted) that he will reverse the executive action President Obama has taken as it relates to opening up relations with Cuba if the nation does not make reforms to his liking.