If you dip your hand twice in a river, the water is never the same. Unless you live in Flint, Michigan, and polluted water runs through your rivers and your faucet every day. This whole problem started...

In September 2015, the Internet buzzed at the news that Target had applied for two liquor licenses for its Streeterville store. Rumors quickly spread that one of the nation’s largest retailers would...

Chicago as a city has come to terms with change many times over. However, it’s not something that tends to come to the city naturally or with ease. There was once a time when the orange line didn’t...

If breasts are out during sex, it's fine; god forbid one should decide to feed a baby with them. That is the view of talk show host Wendy Williams and apparently, she's not alone. On Jan. 6, actress...

According to Statistic Brain, nearly half of all Americans make New Year’s Resolutions. The top resolutions for 2015 included losing weight, getting organized and spending less, saving more. Wouldn’t...

I was raised in the Salvation Army church. (Yes, it's a church and not just a charity.) My parents, grandparents and great grandparents were all Christian preachers, either Nazarene or Salvation Army....

Please, Spike Lee, do not lay your guns or your erection at my feet. I do not want either. I cannot get behind Spike Lee’s new movie, “Chi-Raq.” Only because I identify as a woman. In the Greek...

In November, Germany became the first country in Europe to be able to allow parents to leave the sex of their child off of birth certificates. The aim is to ease the pressures on parents whose babies are...

The police dash-cam video showing officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting Laquan McDonald took 400 days to be seen by the public. If it wasn’t for a lawsuit by part-time journalist Brandon Smith,...

This is not another article that attempts to condense the history of ISIS into 1,000 words or less. This is an article about perspective, a perspective that media corporations have irresponsibly created. Best...

When Michael Brown was killed last August, Ferguson went up in flames. Literally. This city in Missouri was all over the news as peaceful protests escalated into riots. For those unfamiliar with the story,...