In a press release from city hall this past Friday, Mayor Emmanuel announced a new plan to reimagine the city’s food desert known best as the South Side to be rebuilt (or perhaps regrown would be a more fitting term) into a healthy local food spot.  As many...

The first non-black winner of a beauty pageant at Hampton University has faced a walkout by spectators angry that a white woman was crowned Homecoming Queen. Nikole Churchill, 22, won the contest at the college town in southern Virginia, but while she was all smiles,...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) wondered out loud why the nation's minimum wage isn't at $22 an hour, during a Senate Committee hearing on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions last week. “If we started in 1960, and we said that, as productivity goes up — that is,...

By Sierra Tishgart At the I.S. 318 middle school in Brooklyn, 65 percent of students live below the federal poverty level. Yet despite the odds, the school has the highest ranked junior high chess team in the country and holds almost 30 national championships—more...

Democrats jumped on South Carolina state Rep. Kris Crawford (R) this week after his vote against Medicaid expansion, helping to bring attention to racially charged comments he made on the issue in January. In a January interview with the Charleston Regional Business...

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the...

Ever since Sweet Brown's uttered the words "Ain't nobody got time for that," she's been an Internet star. Tons of people have made reference to her "Lord Jesus it's a fire," craziness, and now she's firing back at Apple for using her image without paying up. Brown,...

Smith lost his limbs when he contracted a rare meningitis blood disorder at the age of 3-years-old that caused his blood vessels to burn. Due to his illness, the Harding senior’s parents were forced to make the heart-ripping decision to have their son’s arms and legs...

Russian Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov today demanded an international investigation into the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, claiming it was “far from a coincidence” that six leaders of Latin-American countries who had criticized the U.S. simultaneously fell...