Public Figures

If we’re going to move forward as a community, it starts with holding all of us accountable—especially the ones we once called kings, including Sean Combs.

Michelle Obama says that her marriage is fine and that at the big age of 61, she's allowed to be an independent woman.

Bernice King shamed rapper Sexyy Red into deleting a social media post of an altered image of Martin Luther King on MLK Day.

Jason Whitlock weighed in on the sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox Sports by making sexually-charged remarks about Joy Taylor.

Nikki Giovanni showered me with love and the specific sort of love that only happens when one sees the world through Toni Morrison’s Black Lens.

Rapper Rich Homie Quan's death sparked unverified reports about what caused it.

Danyel Smith, a former editor-in-chief at VIBE Magazine, accuses disgraced mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs of threatening her over a magazine cover.

After facing rejections from aviation schools in the United States, Coleman headed to Paris, France, in 1920 and enrolled at the Caudron Brothers’ School of Aviation. The following year, she would earn her pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

A parent who has disowned their child is a failed parent, not a proud one, and, at any rate, Thomas and his wife appear to have, possibly intentionally, kept their ties to Martin out of public knowledge until relatively recently.

Eric Mays was never afraid to fight for residents of Flint, Michigan, even if it got him in trouble.