The GOP Wants to Slash Food Stamps Because Federal Spending is Too Damn High
Republicans in multiple states want cuts and stricter requirements for SNAP programs
Miami Daycare Didn't Get the Memo About Putting Kids in Blackface
Three toddlers were part of a Black History Month activity gone very wrong
Yesterday’s Price Is Not Today’s Price on Dating Apps
The romance behemoth Match Group is trying to create an elite class of app daters on apps like Hinge and Tinder
A Male Contraceptive Pill Could Be On Its Way
Trials in mice point to an incredibly effective drug
What Ron DeSantis Could Learn From New Jersey
The Garden State to expand piloted AP African American Studies course
Is This the Guy Who Can Fix the IRS?
Maybe not fix, but can commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel make it less racist, at least?
There’s a Suicide Crisis Among Young Black People and Nobody Knows Exactly Why
Between 2018 and 2021, young Black people saw a 36.6 percent increase in suicide rates
One More Thing To Lose Sleep Over: A New Deadly Disease Called Vexas
The newly discovered genetic inflammatory disease has been flying under the radar
Your Hard-Working Grandparents Took More Real Vacations Than You, and It Shows
A new report reveals today’s employees are dipping into PTO but not taking true, extended time off from work
Florida Is Banning Children's Books That Merely Mention Racism
A children's book based on the life of late baseball icon and humanitarian Roberto Clemente is the latest to be shunned from classrooms
The Labor Shortage Is So Bad That Lawmakers Want Child Workers in Factories and Construction
There's gotta be a better way
The 5 Worst Super Bowl Ads of 2023, Ranked
The big game had its fair share of boring and strange commercials
New Poll Says Black Voters Want Another Biden Run in 2024. What’s Wrong With Y’all?
Can we not imagine something better than this?
They Didn’t Want DJ Khaled to Win in 2023, But God Did!
The superproducer teed up his many life and career upgrades at a swanky Miami press event
My Estranged Father Just Died and My Feelings Are Complicated
How do you grieve someone you barely knew?
All 9 J. Cole Album and Mixtape Covers, Ranked
Quite the Cole-ection here
Evidence Suggests Raheem Taylor Is Not Guilty of Murder. Missouri Will Execute Him Anyway.
Will the state kill an innocent man?
Don’t Dunk on the ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Remake Just Yet
The 30-second trailer for Jack Harlow’s acting debut shows this might not be a brick
The “50 Years of Hip-Hop” Grammy Medley Was Almost Perfect. Almost.
The Grammys spectacularly honored hip-hop’s legacy, but a few omissions raised eyebrows
Offering Prisoners Reduced Sentences in Exchange for Organ Donations Is Evil
Yet that’s exactly what four lawmakers from Massachusetts have proposed, in an exploitative measure that would knock off up to one year of prison time
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Reduce Police Brutality?
An AI platform created to review and analyze hours of body cam footage is already showing promise
When Will the Grammys Quit Playing in Kendrick and Beyoncé's Faces?
It’s time to give one of these legends the Album of the Year award—full stop
You’ll Never Guess Which Race Is Most Likely to Be Audited By the IRS
The better question is, how can agents tell who's who?
‘Swarm,’ Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ Follow-Up, Is Inspired By the BeyHive
It stars Dominique Fishback, Chloe Bailey, and Damson Idris. And Malia Obama is one of the show’s staff writers. Unique!
Maybe We Do Need a White History Month After All
It'd be a perfect opportunity to get real about the atrocities that have shaped America
What Are the Real Effects of Weed on an Adolescent Brain?
A little weed ain’t never hurt nobody—or did it?
No Woman Should Have to Die for Denying a Man
And yet, as in the tragic case of Jamea Jonae Harris, Black women are frequently the victims of this kind of violence at the hands of men
Conservatives Are Butthurt Over a Connecticut Breakfast Cafe Named “Woke”
The so-called culture wars have reached peak stupidity
This Actor’s ‘Meet the Browns’ Filming Experience Sounds a Lot Like the Tyler Perry Episode of ‘Atlanta’
A viral TikTok suggests Atlanta's parody was deeply rooted in reality
Being Black Has Never Protected Us From Black Police
The conversation around the race of Tyre Nichols’ murderers is not nearly as complex as some would like to make it