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Every morning when I rise I make it a duty to be aware of where I am in space and time and to emit a spirit of gratitude and graciousness back towards the universe. I believe rising with a sense of mindfulness helps to alleviate the calm, but also helps with putting on my shield of armor for the battles ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officers using bulldozers and other heavy machinery tore down an encampment early Thursday outside a Minneapolis police precinct where demonstrators have gathered for more than two weeks to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by police. Officers told about 50 chanting demonstrators camped outside the Fourth Precinct to disperse about 4 a.m. and began removing ...

The country’s richest people are incredibly, stunningly, jaw-droppingly wealthy — with more assets than millions and millions of Americans put together. That gulf was starkly illustrated in a report this week from the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, showing that just 17 white men and three white women — see the list below — own more wealth (savings, stocks, real ...

Stephanie Mills is set to return “Home” to her theater roots when she takes the stage for NBC’s “The Wiz Live!” Mills’ history with the iconic production began 40 years ago when she starred as Dorothy in the original Broadway musical. In Thursday’s live event, the singer-actress will play the role of Aunt Em. In an interview with The Huffington Post ...

“With most television shows, you have the opportunity to cut and to go back and re-film and perfect as you go along,” said Tazewell, a Tony Award nominee. “With this, there’s no opportunity to do that. It does need to play as if we’re on a Broadway stage. We hit the ‘Go’ button and there’s no turning back.” On the ...

When comedian Tommy Davidson was just a baby, his birth mother abandoned him in a pile of trash in their poor, Southern community. The woman who found Davidson ended up officially adopting him, and from that moment on, he was part of a family filled with warmth and love. It’s a remarkable story, especially when viewed through the lens of ...

Seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald is one of many on a growing list of black people slain by police officers, but some people excuse these incidents as a few bad apples rather than a acknowledging a corrupt policing system. James Kirk, a social media vlogger and student at the University of Memphis, made a video explaining why pulling the “there are good cops ...

Zendaya is capping off 2015 with yet another magazine cover to declare the influential star as one to watch next year. In addition to gracing the cover of the December/January “Power 100” issue of Ebony magazine alongside Harry Belafonte and Jesse Williams, the Disney star has also been named as Complex magazine’s “Woman of Next Year 2016.” In the December ...

With all the roadblocks thrown up by the Supreme Court, should school systems still try to pursue diversity? One district in North Carolina said yes and, as a new study shows, reaped solid rewards for the kids. After years of progress in reducing racial segregation in schools, North Carolina began to go the other way in the 1990s. A series ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officers using bulldozers and other heavy machinery tore down an encampment early Thursday outside a Minneapolis police precinct where demonstrators have gathered for more than two weeks to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by police. Officers told about 50 chanting demonstrators camped outside the Fourth Precinct to disperse about 4 a.m. and began removing ...