Pickens has been part of the award-winning cast since the show’s inception in 2005 and is one of the few African Americans in a lead role on network television. Returning for its sixth season in ...

It's time for BackTalk, where we highlight conversations ... published an article on Salon.com recently about obesity and African-American women. HILL: I'm not touching this.

Coming up, TELL ME MORE's Web guide joins us for our weekly backtalk segment where we get to hear from you. But, first, for a couple of centuries, African-American culture has been imbued with ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on ...