Social media is no stranger to controversial trends. “Ghetto makeup” is the latest one making waves and it is raising eyebrows and important questions. Search the term on TikTok, and you’ll find an ...

Cardi (real name Belcalis Almánzar-Cephus) is a Grammy Award winner with several chart-topping records, so respect is in order — but rarely given. Aaron Davidson / Getty Images for Fontainbleau Miami ...

Dictionary definition of “ghetto:” a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social ...

Greater Greater Washington, in an interesting blog post the other day, delved into the use of the word “ghetto” in part in response to the heated online discussion that ensued over a mural that went ...

It’s a word that’s come to lose any semblance of meaning, one that’s been misused in popular culture as a pejorative term meant to ridicule people for how they behave, what they wear, and even how ...

Many moons ago, when I was pregnant teenager and totally clueless about how the world works, I gave my daughter what is now considered an ethnic name (I think this is a politically correct way of ...

At the Golden Globe Awards, in January, Ennio Morricone won Best Original Score for his contribution to “The Hateful Eight,” the Quentin Tarantino Western. Accepting the award on Morricone’s behalf ...

So, I live in a used-to-be-bad area in Milwaukee. It used to be really bad, but then a couple of years ago it has started to have a resurgence, and now there are lots of college kids, new couples, old ...

President Museveni launches several ghetto youth saccos at Kololo, Kampala in December 2023. In recent years, President Museveni’s administration has directed unprecedented attention and resources ...