Harvard University, breaking with a major trend in college admissions, says it will eliminate its early admissions program next year, with university officials arguing that such programs put low-income and minority applicants at a distinct disadvantage in

Saburo Tanamachi…died fighting to save fellow American soldiers during World War II. Sixty years later…Saburo’s niece, won her 12-year fight against injustice when Jefferson County commissioners voted to assign a new name to a rural street known for

Six months after being forced out of The Source, Dave Mays is set to return to magazine publishing with a new title that’s being described as an urban version of In Touch. Joining him in the effort are Ray “Benzino” Scott, Wendy Williams; and Mimi Valdes,

One of the invitations at the heart of jokes is to distinguish between “them” and “us,” “we” and “they.” “Them” and “they” are butts of the joke, “we” and “us” are the ones laughing at “them.” Indeed, at the very moment of the telling of the joke and ou

…for this post, I am pretty much going to only focus on the shows that feature people of color or women in interesting and/or prominent roles. With that being said, there is an interesting line up for this fall:

In Dallas, Texas, a school board official is requesting city council to create a law that allows police to give citations to people wearing their jeans too low. Ron Price, a local school board member, has asked the council to strengthen current laws to be

Rather than focusing only on sex or on race, he simultaneously controls for the effects of race, sex, U.S. citizenship, and class on federal sentencing. (Legally, none of those four factors are supposed to have an effect on what sentence a judge hands dow