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  Hello everyone! In honor of Black History Month, I’m excited to give you a list of the 10 most influential African-Americans in my life (in no particular order): 1. My Mom As soon as I heard “influential African-Americans,” the first people I thought about were my amazing parents! Let’s start with my Mom. She is always so loving and ...

  If there was one wish I had for the fake Mayan apocalypse that sadly didn’t come true, it was that most online “relationship experts” would be swept away in the Biblical flood. OK, maybe not swept away, but I hoped they would all at least repent and abandon their careers of giving women bad advice on finding love. This business ...

  Darnell: Wade, I could not wait to get your thoughts on some of the recent headlines dominating sports news outlets. From the current publicity on the Denver Nuggets’ Kenneth “The Manimal” Faried’s moving video in support of his lesbian mothers to the Manti Te’o media fiasco and the most recent report of Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Webber and Kenny “The Jet” Smith mocking Charles Barkley’s “effeminate” behavior ...

  Harvard Law School professor Kenneth W. Mackwrites at the Huffington Post that it’s an African-American woman, attorney Pauli Murray, who deserves credit for expanding the language of civil rights in 1963 to include women’s rights — and even LGBT rights. President Obama’s unprecedented endorsement of gay rights in his inauguration address last week — delivered on the Martin Luther King, ...

President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walk away from the podium during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony for the return of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Libyan embassy employees at Joint Base Andrews September 14. 2012 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Stevens and the three other embassy employees were killed when the consulate in Libya ...

  Women are being targeted. We are falling prey to a silent enemy. An enemy most of us didn’t even know we had. But it has its sights set on us. And in 2010, it was set on me. I was horrified to learn that I had fluid around my heart. I didn’t know exactly what that meant, but after ...

  Moses Groves was not always an artist. As a bass, baritone, and second tenor, he recorded with his group, Little Jimmy and The Tops, their hit singles, “Puppy Love” and “Say You Love Me” in 1959. Little Jimmy and The Tops were especially successful in Philadelphia. They also performed three times at the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem. ...

  Community leaders and pastors should look to Barack and Michelle Obama for an example of a solid, two-parent household as they look for ways to piece black families back together during these perilous economic and social times, Tamika Mallory writes in her NewsOne column. Many of us were still on a post-Inaugural high even after King Day. Took me a minute ...

  Often it takes a rare injustice perpetrated against a privileged young person for our society to recognize the common injustices we visit every day upon less-privileged minorities. That should be the case again this week as we mourn the tragic death of the computer prodigy and progressive activist Aaron Swartz. Aaron’s story has been retold countless times in the ...

  Some manifestations of white privilege are so self-indulgent that black America finds itself struggling to understand their implications long after they sink into our collective psyche. This may prove to be the case with director Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained – even for those people who have not — or will not — view the film. It’s already haunting Tavis Smiley and ...