Jamilah King

Silicon Valley may be home to some of the world’s most innovative technological problem solvers, but there’s at least one issue that’s stumped engineers and investors: how to make the Valley more racially inclusive. In recent months, at least two…

Jay-Z’s new album 4:44 is a grown man’s apology — to his aggrieved wife, to his innocent children and to his adoring fans. On his 13th studio album, the king of hip-hop wears his heart on his sleeve and admits all of his sins. He’s doing what good…

For the past two years, the moniker "Celeste Guap" has become infamous in and around Bay Area police circles. It's the alias used by a woman who says that she was sexually exploited and trafficked by officers. Now, thanks to new reporting by Darwin…

Chance the Rapper took home BET's humanitarian award on Sunday night and gave a speech that was a rallying cry to improve black lives in Chicago. And he did it with a little bit of help from former first lady Michelle Obama, another Chi-town…

June 22 is now officially Laverne Cox Day in New York City. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, made the surprise announcement on Thursday when the actress made an appearance at his official residence, Gracie Mansion. "Can you believe that a black…

Philando Castile is dead. Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez is free. On Tuesday, just days after Yanez was found not guilty of second-degree manslaughter, dashcam video from his patrol car was released publicly for the first time. The…

Bill Cosby's trial on three counts of aggravated indecent assault ended in a mistrial Saturday. His attorneys are happy; his wife, Camille Cosby, is ecstatic; and prosecutors have already vowed to try him again. But the spectacle surrounding Cosby's…

It's only Tuesday, but it's already been a bad week for the Kardashian klan. Two of the sisters, Kylie Jenner and Khloé Kardashian, have been publicly accused of outright stealing the designs of black women entrepreneurs, repackaging them as their…

Two things can be true at once: America can have an awful history of white people falsely accusing black men of rape. And Bill Cosby can still allegedly rape people. That's an important reminder as we sit through the trial of the year as Cosby…

Senator Kamala Harris will not be silenced. A day after the freshman California senator made headlines for Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr's attempts to cut off her line of questioning at Wednesday's Senator Intelligence…

When I came out to my mother in my 20s, I wish I'd known that coming out wasn't a one-time process, but an everyday obligation. I didn't expect to have to process the questions, independence and realities of my identity alongside my middle-aged mom;…

Bill Cosby will finally have his day in court. The disgraced 79-year-old comedian will be tried on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for allegedly sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University's women's…

It was big news in 2014 when Sasheer Zamata joined Saturday Night Live and became the show's first black female cast member since Maya Rudolph's departure seven years earlier. But it's even bigger news that Zamata, only 31, is now leaving the show…

Bresha Meadows, the black Ohio teenager who was charged with murdering her father to put an end to years of abuse, has accepted a plea deal.  On Monday, Meadows accepted a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to one year and one…

North Florida Christian is a private school in Tallahassee, Florida, that is now tangled up in a huge controversy over hair. Jenesis Johnson, a 17-year-old black student, told local reporters that she was cornered by a teacher about her hair. A…

There's a long simmering conversation in the food world about cultural appropriation — about who's allowed to cook what, and why — but it's usually a tad more subtle than what Kali Wilgus and Liz "LC" Connelly confessed to Willamette Week in…

Diversity trainings are all the rage in police departments these days. But if you're wondering if there's anything of substance to them, then you're probably right. Fusion's Molly Osberg dug through some Powerpoint presentations used by police…

Yale dean June Chu has been placed on leave after the school's student paper uncovered a trove of her insulting and discriminatory Yelp reviews. Chu is dean of the university's Pierson College, and she has a background in advocating on behalf of…

Missy Elliot gave a subtle nod to Trayvon Martin with a sample in 2015's "WTF (Where They From)." The fact that was recently unearthed in a stunning profile for Elle by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. BuzzFeed's Saeed Jones pointed out the excerpt from the…