AUSTIN, TX (RNN) – A Texas state representative filed a bill Friday that would levy a $100 penalty on a man for masturbating. “#HB4260, “A Man’s Right to Know,” mirrors real TX laws and health care restrictions faced by TX women every (Texas legislature) session,” wrote Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, on Twitter. The legislation states […]

DAYTON – A man was arrested in Dayton on Tuesday after a witness called police and said he attempted to have sex with a van. According to WDTN, officers were called to the 700 block of St. Nicholas Street on Tuesday night when a neighbor called about a man pulling his pants down and swinging […]

PLATTSBURGH, New York — A little boy’s poem is so powerful, it has inspired those who’ve read it, and it’s also brought people to tears. Benjamin Giroux, 10, has Asperger syndrome. His family told TODAY that the students in Benjamin’s fifth-grade class in Plattsburgh, New York, were asked to write a poem about themselves to celebrate National […]

Among the many feelings from 20 years ago, perhaps the most striking was defiance. Nothing like a “Let’s burn the National Mall down” defiance (even though anger was in much heavier supply back then, as it is now), but more of a “We’ll show them” defiance gassing our post-teen, boom-bap-hip-hop-soundtracked Gen X awe with the […]

Soon, Target will be doing away with gender-based signs in some departments. The company announced on Friday that it will work to phase out the signs, particularly in non-clothing departments. “Right now, our teams are working across the store to identify areas where we can phase out gender-based signage to help strike a better balance,” […]

NEW YORK- Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, is the cover model of June’s Vanity Fair. The magazine posted photos of the cover with the headline “Call me Caitlyn” on Monday. According to Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz took the first photos of Caitlyn at her Malibu home. It will be available on news stands on […]

If you are a Black person living in America, then this headline from Monday’s New York Times may be jarring, but not truly shocking: 1.5 Million Missing Black Men. What it addresses is the number of Black men aged 25-54 who are missing from daily life in our country, mostly due to early death or incarceration. […]

During a wide-ranging and candid discussion with the Daily Telegraph about the state of the nation’s race relations, author Toni Morrison says America’s issues will not be resolved until justice is meted out equally in the criminal justice system, according to the Raw Story. Further, the Nobel Prize-winning author says unarmed Blacks are not the ones […]

  More than ever, the void between Black men is even more evident with rising crime and other factors across the nation. But what is rarely acknowledged is that there are many who wish to tackle the issues of the day as a unified front. Oakland-based artist Chris Johnson takes aim at sparking those necessary […]

In February, President Barack Obama announced an initiative to respond to the economic, employment, and educational disparities that young men of color face as they enter their adult lives. He said the five-year, $200 million cause would be “an interagency effort to improve measurably the expected educational and life outcomes for and address the persistent opportunity […]

  Haven’t heard much talk about Father’s Day this year. Debates about what Dad would like, what size he might wear, what he could use — these topics haven’t exactly been crossing the social media universe or Black Zeitgeist too much lately. It’s this coming Sunday, and there has been a lack of conversation about […]

Last weekend I was walking around feeling, well, down. Sorta moody. Bummed out, if you will. So I took to social media to describe my temperament, explaining that the day hadn’t gone well and I was feeling alone. Almost instantly, friends began to swoop down on me, calling me, texting me, messaging me. Even people […]