By Joanna Hernandez, Richmond High School Esmeralda Echavarria, a Richmond High School sophomore, has been offered the opportunity to travel to Brown University in Rhode...
Zach Epstein, BGR (BGR.com) — We do our best to help you start off each week on the right foot, and there’s no better...
Zach Epstein, BGR (BGR.com) — We do our best to help you start off each week on the right foot, and there’s no better...
Chris Richards, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — With the digital universe continuously crying out for our exponentially divided attention, we are...
Arman Walia, BLEACHER REPORT CAMBRIDGE (BleacherReport.com) — Dwyane Wade is probably used to playing basketball in June, but since his Miami Heat failed to make...
Neil Irwin, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — You can be forgiven if you haven’t been particularly riveted by the series of...
Daniel Zadik, THE CONVERSATION (TheConversation.com) — Food intolerance is often dismissed as a modern invention and a “first-world problem”. However, a study analysing the...
Former East Bay Assemblymember Sandré Swanson recently announced that he has received the endorsement of Senator Loni Hancock in his bid to succeed Hancock in the...
By Lynette Holloway Special to the NNPA via The Atlanta Daily World (NNPA) — Long before Rachel Dolezal, head of the Spokane, Washington NAACP...
William Grimes, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Dolores Spikes, who became the first woman to head a university system in the United...
Vicki Randle snarled over her throbbing electric bass lines and the bashing beats of the other three Skip the Needle women band members during an original...
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The president of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington, chapter has resigned as furor mounted over her racial identity, after her parents...
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The president of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington, chapter has resigned as furor mounted over her racial identity, after her parents...
Over 75 Black students participated in the annual UC Berkeley Black Graduation on May 23, hosted by the Department of African American Studies. With this year’s...
By Kathleen Maclay, UC Berkeley News UC Berkeley’s Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is looking for a few (more) good women, those who may have...
Oakland, CA – They left it all on the court. Their backs were against the wall, and they didn’t panic. The Warriors protected home court just...
By Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley News Poor sleep, more common in old age, is linked to the protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Sleep may...
The San Francisco Black Film Festival, completing its 17th year, featured nearly 100 films throughout the city last week. The festival showcased the work of...
Anna Almendrala, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post) — This is as close to a bat signal as we’re likely to get. An app that summons...
Kriston Capps, CITY LAB CHICAGO (The Atlantic’s City Lab) — The best time to steal someone’s home is at Christmas. That’s when folks find...
Shannon Ryan, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE (The Chicago Tribune) — Wearing a Blackhawks sweater, some playoff scruff and a grin, Ken Brown strolled down an...
Frank Bruni, THE NEW YORK TIMES PHILADELPHIA (The New York Times) — Last summer, a 13-year-old named Mo’ne Davis landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a...
John Legend, VULTURE (Vulture) — When I saw Kalief Browder’s 2013 television interview, I wanted to meet him. He was 20 and had just...
John Legend, VULTURE (Vulture) — When I saw Kalief Browder’s 2013 television interview, I wanted to meet him. He was 20 and had just...
Christian Santana, MSNBC SAN FRANCISCO (MSNBC) — Laverne Cox, star of Netflix show “Orange is the New Black,” is set to be Madame Tussauds’...