Yesterday, the Washington Post launched “The Root” - an online that aims to be a “Slate for black readers,” according to the site’s co-founder and Editor-In-Chief, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

According to the economic stimulus package proposed by President Bush, come June as many as 116 million American families could be receiving a fat check in the mail. Word.

10 years after calling Bill Clinton our “first Black President”, Morrison now endorses Obama

Newly-elected Mayor Michal Nutter has appointed former Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington D.C. as the new police commissioner.

New York Time’s columnist Maureen Dowd wrote this editorial, titled Two Against One, about Bill and Hillary Clinton teaming up against Barak Obama in recent months. It was the second most emailed article on the New York Time’s website today.

Look at how much celebs have donated this year.

About fifteen years ago, I wrote in my journal that Chris Baldwin - the Denzel Washington of my grade school - would fall madly in love with me. Around that same time Oprah predicted in her journal that one day she would create a television network.

The secret to winning an all season boo.

If you’re a female — and you’re breathing — chances are you’ve been the victim of a holla. (By holla we mean a frivolous, and often failed, attempt of a guy to “get at” a girl with annoying one-liners like “Hey little mama you look good,” “What yo’ name is?” or “Can I get in them jeans?”) A lady can’t even walk down the street without someone from the male gender bombarding her with this nonsense.

“What are you bringing to the table?”

What have you done for me lately? This is the 1986 single from Janet Jackson’s third album, Control. This is a funny paradigm in that, 20 years later, it would be the song sung by many modern 20 or 30-something males to single females trying to gain just that – control.