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NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z — under increasing pressure to back out of a collaboration with the luxury store Barneys New York after it was accused of racially profiling two black customers — said Saturday he’s being unfairly “demonized” for just waiting to hear all of the facts. The rap mogul made his first statement […]

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Lolo Jones is a step closer to the Sochi Games, and Lauryn Williams might not have raced in her final Olympics after all. Jones and Williams are best known for their track accomplishments, Jones as one of the world’s elite hurdlers and Williams as an NCAA champion and Olympic gold medalist sprinter. They were among […]

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MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Darrell Wallace Jr. became the second black driver to win on NASCAR’s national level and first in a half-century, taking the Truck Series race Saturday at Martinsville Speedway. Wendell Scott won in Jacksonville, Fla., in December 1963 in what is now known as the Sprint Cup Series, the highest of NASCAR’s […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A black actor on the HBO drama series “Treme” (treh-MAY’) says he was stopped because of his race while buying sunglasses at a New York City Macy’s department store and has filed a lawsuit against it. Robert Brown’s lawsuit comes after two other black shoppers made similar claims against Barneys New […]

During a recent investors event in NYC, the CEO of healthcare startup Kanteron Systems, Jorge Cortell decided to call out a group of women he’d…

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An unnamed music teacher at the Hazel Harvey Peace Elementary school in Fort Worth, Texas is being accused of being racially biased after allegedly segregating…

Vanessa Belmond (pictured), who worked as a porn star for seven years under the name of Alexa Cruz, recently revealed some startling insider information about the…

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An African American worker at a Hooters in Baltimore said she was fired from her job because she put blonde highlights in her hair. Farryn Johnson told Baltimore’s CBS News affiliate that she was let go from her job as a waitress at Hooters due to ‘”improper image” after the 25-year-old refused to remove blonde […]

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MIAMI (AP) — A man on trial in the slaying of Washington Washington Football Team star safety Sean Taylor admitted to breaking into the NFL player’s home, kicking down the bedroom door and shooting Taylor, and drew a detailed diagram of the house, labeling himself as the shooter, a Miami-Dade police detective testified Thursday. Defendant […]

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Video of an adorable little girl freestyling at her dance recital has gone viral. Folks on social media have fallen in love with the girl, and for good reason. Dressed in the cutest of tutus, the girl seems to be in her own world as her classmates stick diligently to the routine. The crowd laughs […]

Offensive T-shirts with tongue-in-cheek phrases surrounding rape are being petitioned on Change.org. FYourT is an Etsy online shop that sells attention-grabbing, but awful T-shirts. With…

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Doctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus — a medical first that is prompting a new look at how hard and fast such cases should be treated. The case was reported earlier this year but some doctors were skeptical […]