Culture

Veteran actor Roger Moore has blamed a French magazine for embroiling him in a racism row after it reported his comments that Idris Elba cannot play James Bond because he was not 'English-English' enough. Sir...

Everyday racism is alive and well and not just in America (although American racism is highlighted a lot more).  Did you know, seventy-three percent of millennials say that "never considering" race would...

No Oscars | For Those Wildly Talented Women  The film industry has an abysmal track record when it comes to representing and employing women of colour. A study by the Women's Media Center found that only...

"1st Reaction: HELL NO. Lemme take off my earrings, somebody hold my purse!" the Grey's Anatomy creator tweeted. "2nd Reaction: Article is so ignorant I can't even be bothered." In seven hours, Rhimes' tweet...

Two years ago 29-year-old Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc quit her job and started travelling the world to document natural women surrounded by their culture. She wanted to photograph women from each...

As part of a Lithuanian 'social experiment' video, a black immigrant asks locals to translate racist Facebook comments directed at him. The video shows the black man sitting on a couch with his...

The result has been a viral campaign under the hashtag #droptheplus, encouraging people to see models as models, and women as women. When a model wears a size greater than a 10 or 12, she is usually...

We’re all regularly in awe of Scandal‘s Olivia Pope, but we’re also equally in awe of the actress who plays her, Kerry Washington. Washington gave a speech at the GLAAD Awards where she was named the...

Buying a house before you're 30 with your own hard earned money, no mommy and daddy helping you, is quite an impressive accomplishment to say the least. It's a milestone not many get to accomplish and even...

Shonda Rhimes proved long ago that she is a force to reckon with. The growing influence she has had in television has not gone unrecognized and has resulted in a major boost for ABC’s Thursday night network...

 Zambia is known globally for it's copper but not for much longer as Namaala Liebenthal would like to see the African nation become known for something a little different - ZOCA. Liebenthal is the creator of...

  For the glowing pages of This Day Style, Nigeria's TV personality Eku Edewor posed with Rapper, pop-star Lynxx in a series of cultural themed pictures titled 'Young, Restless & Daring.' Lynxx,...

2Face Idibia has suggested that Pidgin English be introduced in Nigerian schools to aid communication and transfer knowledge to kids in rural areas who use Pidgin English as their second language. The...

Ahead of the upcoming Nigeria elections, MTV Base and STV has taped a special pre-election programme with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and young Nigerian voters to discuss the burning issues facing youth...

Nigerian entrepeneurs are some of the most creative in the world as the business terrain is one of the harshest in the world. When I use the word 'creative' I am by no means limiting the industries concerned...