I mean, can you blame her?! I am one. Beyoncé is one. Anderson Cooper is one. We’re a good group.

I wasn't sure that I was going to write about the race of Remember Me's heroine because I wasn't sure there'd be anything to write about. And after having played the game, I can say that Nilin's ethnic make-up plays no part in the world-building of the new Capcom adventure.

A worth-your-while New York Times profile of Shonda Rhimes — creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal — is chock-full of awesome.

Madame You is a new and very thoughtful social networking site for women of color; the website combines science (the founders have backgrounds in computer science and chemical engineering), technology (the site is powered by Techturized, a hair technology company), and politics ("We understand that hair is an extension…

When is a compliment not really a compliment? When is praise not really praise? Here's a hint: When you're a white man reminiscing about the good old days, when black people wore Afros. Yeah...no. Talk about reducing something complex to something simple.

Meet Emma McQuiston, 26-year-old daughter of a Nigerian oil tycoon, former actress and "celebrity chef." She is engaged to Ceawlin Thynne, Viscount of Weymouth. His father is the "notorious" Marquess of Bath. His home, — Longleat House, a 100,000 acre estate — is pretty close to being Downton Abbey, except there's a safari …

Numéro magazine has issued an apology of sorts for the African Queen editorial in the March 2013 issue, in which Ondria Hardin, a 16-year-old, blond-haired, blue-eyed model, was shot with her skin darkened. But the magazine's message — and a message from the photographer himself — only further complicate the issue.

By now you have heard that there will be at least one black character on the new season of Downton Abbey. This is fucking exciting. Because the timeline on the show has reached the 1920s, and the 1920s were an interesting time in black history: Being black was cool.

With more than 8 million viewers every Thursday night and a huge Twitter presence, Scandal is officially a hit. This year, Kerry Washington — who, as we have mentioned several times before, is the first black woman to have the lead role in a network drama since 1974 — also has a role in an Oscar-nominated film, Django…

"I think they're misinformed." "Zombies going crazy?" "It's not the Harlem Shake, like, at all." "Definitely not the Harlem Shake." "It's making us look bad."