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We love our favorite celebrities who always show up with glowing skin and with every hair in place. And we love them even more when they pay it forward by sharing their favorite products with the rest of us. A growing number of Black celebrities are launching skin and hair care lines that are made with us in mind.…Read more...

On Thursday, the world premiere of Hulu’s The 1619 Project docu-series was released to audiences.Read more...

Russell Westbrook’s time with the Los Angeles Lakers has been anything but smooth. A trade that was made with championship expectations has not even been close to living up to the “hype.” He has been criticized for his play on the court and his behavior in post-game press conferences, which are often filled with …Read more...

An open letter was released on Thursday calling for an increase in funding for Black feminist organizations. The plea came from some of philanthropy’s most prominent figures and organizations, including Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Pivotal Ventures and the Ford Foundation.Read more...

The unexpected death of dancer/actor Stephen “tWitch” Boss in December sent shockwaves throughout the entertainment industry. As we all mourn and continue to grapple with questions about why, it’s important that everyone remembers that reckless speculation is inappropriate. If you’re someone who considered yourself a…Read more...

When you go the hospital, you trust that the nurses who take care of you have completed an accredited nursing program, have passed their licensing exams and have gone through rigorous training. But federal investigators in Florida just discovered a widespread plot to help some aspiring nurses get around one of those “…Read more...

It’s not conjecture to say that Black communities throughout the United States are dealing with a water crisis. Just look at Jackson, Mississippi, where aging water structures coupled with extreme weather events have led to frequent and disastrous shut-offs.Read more...

We were all giving the College Board some major side-eye after they announced they were making changes to their African American Studies Advanced Placement course. The timing was just a little too close to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ “anti-woke” tirade against the course, where he denounced the program for…Read more...

The past two weeks have been filled with swift action from state and federal agencies in investigating the Tyre Nichols case. In a statement, President Joe Biden called for the public to protest peacefully as tensions rise in Memphis amidst the pending release of the body camera footage of the incident.

Updated as of 1/27/2023 at 9:15 a.m. ET

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Republicans may have wrested control of the House away from Democrats in the Midterms. But that doesn’t mean Black Democrats on the Hill are just bidding their time.Read more...

When you ask hip-hop fans, who’s the best rapper out right now, you’ll get a multitude of answers. Mainstream fans will say it’s Drake, who again dropped two polarizing and popular albums in 2022. Underground fans (like me) will say Boldy James who dropped four exceptional albums last year and showed out on every…Read more...

As a New Jersey native, I’ll truly be damned if my “20 regular, please” was met with “We don’t serve Black folks.” Ms. Rose Wakefield, 63, held her composure better than I would have after being put in the exact same position. Instead of cussing them out, she took them to court and walked away with 10 times my student…Read more...

Meta has reinstated Donald Trump’s Instagram and Facebook accounts. This brings an end to his two-year suspension after praising the Capitol rioters on Jan. 6, 2021. Meta’s decision is a vital one, since it comes ahead of Trump’s plans to run for president in 2024.Read more...

There’s no question that moms and dads do things differently. But a new study from the Pew Research Center, “Parenting in America Today,” dug into some of the specific differences between how mothers and fathers do their thing and how they feel about it.Read more...

When we first meet singer Teyana Taylor’s Inez in A.V. Rockwell’s directorial feature debut A Thousand and One, she’s fresh out of Rikers Island, walking the streets of a gritty New York City in the mid-90s.Read more...

Listen, kids. If you’ve never seen the classic Eddie Murphy stand-up films Raw and Delirious, they’re like a filthy, offensive time machine into the past. They’re from the ‘80s, so the jokes are definitely going to be inappropriate to today’s sensibilities. But his delivery and the way he works an audience is a…Read more...

Nowadays, if you walk up to a basketball fan and ask them how they feel about Kobe Bryant, many of them will say, “Black Mamba,” “The Greatest,” or “GOAT.” All respectable and appropriate descriptions of one of the best basketball players of all time, but not exactly what comes to mind when I think of him.Read more...

On the latest Twitter thread to rock the timeline, a Black mother over in the United Kingdom has called out her daughter’s school for punishing the student based on a “racist” dress code policy, per the Daily Mail. We can drop the quotations. Most dress codes, especially for Catholic private schools, exclude Black…Read more...

After spending most of 2022 wrongfully detained in Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner is ready to get back to her regular life–including basketball. Following a prisoner swap that led to her release in December, the Phoenix Mercury center made it clear that her career on the court was far from over. In a December…Read more...

On the bingo card no one was expecting, a YSL co-founder says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis represented him in a 2019 aggravated assault case. Yes, the same Fani Willis who is currently working to put the YSL crew in prison. Her former client says this isn’t the real her. So now we’re asking, who is she?

The effects of HB 1467 are being felt in Florida as counties are starting to comply with Governor Ron DeSantis’ law. It mandates that all books in classroom libraries must be approved by his administration.

What seemed like a crazy chicken and egg court battle between rapper T.I. and his wife, singer Tameka “Tiny” Harris, versus a popular toy maker ended in a mistrial yesterday when a federal judge in Santa Ana, California, decided that testimony accusing the company of cultural appropriation would leave the jury…Read more...

With less than a month away from the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania—the official start of phase five in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—star Jonathan Majors is opening up about his role as Kang the Conqueror, the next gargantuan-level, multi-variant supervillain.Read more...

After a 6-year-old student shot and injured his teacher at Richneck Elementary, the Newport News school district was left looking like a deer in headlights. According to CBS 6 News, their latest plan of action was firing Superintendent George Parker III. Both staff and parents are left wondering what the decision has…Read more...

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Weddings are never easy. Underneath all the flowers, cake and fancy clothes is a barely contained madness that borders on chaos. Add in the extra element of taking the show on the road for a destination wedding and things can go completely off the rails. The usual wedding craziness is ramped up a few levels in the new…Read more...

On July 3, 2020, a pregnant Sha-Asia Semple went to Brooklyn’s Woodhull Medical Center in labor. She delivered a healthy baby girl, but Ms. Semple would never meet her. The 26-year-old mother, who should have been gushing over her newborn with her partner, died during childbirth due to complications with her epidural.

The folks at Yelp just came out with their 10th annual list of Top 100 Places to Eat in 2023. The site dedicated to connecting people with local businesses analyzed millions of user reviews and community suggestions to compile a list of their favorite places to get food (besides their grandma’s kitchen, of course).…Read more...

We already laid out some of the best hip-hop songs of 1993, so why not mention the best albums? The year was filled with talented upstarts and savvy veterans who were masters with their pens.Read more...

It looks like Anna Delvey aka Anna Sorokin aka the fake German heiress has landed her own reality series. Variety reported Wednesday that the show, entitled “Delvey’s Dinner Club,” will be filmed inside her apartment (in NYC’S East Village) where she is currently serving house arrest.Read more...

An attorney for Abigail Zwerner, a first grade teacher who was shot and seriously injured by her 6-year-old student, claims the school had prior knowledge of the firearm. Specifically, they alleged administrators were issued three warnings about the child and still failed to act, according to The Associated Press.

Whether you can believe it or not, the 2023 Grammys are less than two weeks away! Ahead of music’s biggest night, we now know the first set of performers who are expected to take the stage. According to Variety, those include folks like Mary J. Blige, Steve Lacy, Lizzo and one other rapper who just might be making his…Read more...

Black Americans are drowning in student debt, and many of us struggle to keep up with the demands of paying off loans and saving for retirement. If you’re tired of choosing between dodging debt collectors forever and working until you croak, you might want to learn about this new retirement law.

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When high-profile celebrity couples split, the world tends to forget that these are real people going through a real-life emotional loss. Divorce is the end of something special, but it’s also the beginning of a new journey full of unpredictable paths. Because we’re the ones who keep everyone else on solid ground,…Read more...

What’s up with legendary boxers and rape sexual assault allegations? Just days after George Foreman countersued a woman who accused the legendary boxer of sexual abuse, fellow former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is facing his own rape allegations.Read more...

In 1921, Bessie Coleman made history as the first Black and Native American female aviator and first Black person to earn an international pilot’s license. Now, over a century later, Barbie is giving the trailblazing pilot the flowers she deserves with a doll created in her likeness.

One of the five officers accused in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols weeks ago had previously been accused in a nearly-fatal beating of a prison inmate in 2015, according to an NBC report. The ex-cop was named in a civil rights lawsuit related to the incident; it was later dismissed but still managed to jeopardize…Read more...

Nominations for the 2023 Oscars may have been revealed on Tuesday morning, but that doesn’t mean the dust isn’t still settling in response to it.Read more...

The rest of the world may be falling in love with Nia Long again, but Black audiences have never stopped appreciating the actress. We’ve grown up with her as she’s starred in the movies Boyz n the Hood, Friday, Love Jones and The Best Man franchise, as well as TV series like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and House of…Read more...

Ben Crump will announce his plans to file a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis for his (racist) decision to reject a proposed Advance Placement African American Studies pilot program. The news will officially be shared on Wednesday, January 25 at 12:15 p.m E.T.Read more...

Tracee Ellis Ross is a successful actress with a thriving beauty business who sashayed into 50 last year looking nothing less than fabulous, if I do say so myself.

While Vermont is not often discussed in the news, but a string of racist incidents at its high school sporting events has led to them getting press for all the wrong reasons.Read more...

Last year, D’Monterrio Gibson was racially targeted by a white father and son in the neighborhood as he made his FedEx deliveries. Gibson filed a $5 million federal lawsuit naming the two men as defendants, per WREG. However, the city, police department AND FedEx must answer to the suit’s accusations.

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At this point, I think we all need to start rummaging through our closets for missing classified documents.Read more...

In Thembi Banks’ feature directorial debut, Young. Wild. Free., Algee Smith (Detroit, The New Edition Story) stars as Brandon, a troubled, artistic teen with way too many problems.

It looks like karma has finally come for Waymond Wesley, the assistant district attorney in Houston who made headlines in recent weeks for his violent and hateful tweets directed at Black women. Just last week, District Attorney Kim Ogg decided to stand behind Wesley. However, it looks like the Harris County DA’s…Read more...