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Photo: Courtesy of The Smithsonian My name is Shanelle Genai, writing stuff about Black entertainment is my thang. Today, we’re talking about hip-hop, the who’s who, what’s what and how they made it pop. So take a read if you wanna hear ‘bout that while I tell you all about …

“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Every year, Gallup asks a sample of American adults what might seem to be a rather loaded question: How much do you like your job? The results may surprise you. The portion …

Oprah Winfrey has helped thousands of young people attend college and her latest scholarship is going the extra mile to assist young leaders.  The new scholarship is via The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation and benefits “students who have displayed both academic excellence and leadership within their respective communities,” PEOPLE exclusively …

Tyler Perry, the successful television, movie, and stage producer, has waded through his share of critiques about his stage and screen productions. But the movie mogul’s has tough skin—except now. According to TVLine, Perry, speaking on The Tyler Perry Show: Sistas After-Show Edition, shut down the conversation about the “bad …

Homes that have been in families for generations are pretty commonplace in Black culture. Known as heirs’ property, many Black people live in houses or on land that they inherited informally and without the paperwork. But when they’re in need of aid after disaster strikes, it is hard to prove …

Adam Maida A record of the plague dead: Stacy Forbess, 55, an Alabama twirling coach; Haley Mulkey Richardson, 32, a pregnant Alabama nurse; Cindy Dawkins, 50, a Florida restaurant worker; Martin and Trina Daniel, 53 and 49, a Georgia couple married for some 20 years; Lawrence and Lydia Rodriguez, 49 …

Royal staffers who alleged Meghan Markle bullied them are rescinding their complaints to HR, E! News reports. Just four days prior to Markle and husband Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, The Times of London published two reports that accused the Duchess of Sussex of bullying palace staff members. In …

What you don’t know can hurt you. It’s no secret that our education system has not equipped Americans with a foundation of financial literacy, and the Black community has been hit especially hard by this failure. In a recent financial literacy test, Black Americans scored 38%, with only 28% answering …

A Memphis judge has blocked the release of a video that captured the final moments of Alvin Motley Jr.’s life. Motley was killed by former cop-turned-security guard, Gregory Livingston, at a Kroger gas station last month. The special prosecutor in the case originally planned to release the video evidence to …

Gabriela Pesqueira When the coronavirus pandemic struck last year, people throughout the developed world raced to buy toilet paper, bottled water, yeast for baking bread, and other basic necessities. Americans also stocked up on guns. They bought more than 23 million firearms in 2020, up 65 percent from 2019. First-time …