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Billy Porter may have been the recipient of this year’s Achievement Award at the 2022 Outfest, but it was the highest court in the land and some republicans that was called out on Thursday night.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is showing the Trump family a little empathy in the wake of yesterday’s death of family matriarch Ivana Trump.Read more...

The killing of 25-year-old Jayland Walker during a traffic stop in Akron, Ohio, is another entry in the ongoing discussion of police brutality against Black Americans. While facts are still being gathered, the NAACP is calling on the Department of Justice and attorney general Merrick Garland to start their own federal…Read more...

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The initial reports on the killing of Jayland Walker, a Black man shot by Akron police officers, alleged he was under the fire of at least 90 bullets. The medical examiner’s office confirmed Friday Walker was hit with 46 of those shots, according to NBC News. The manner of his death was ruled a homicide.

Uber says reports of sexual assault have decreased among app users. But while they pat themselves on the back, the ride-sharing company faces suits from over 500 women around the country who say their lives were endangered when they used the service, and the company didn’t do enough to protect them. Court documents…Read more...

Contrary to what many folks purported online, Drake is not in Swedish custody. In fact, the Honestly, Nevermind rapper was never arrested or sent to Swedish jail despite online rumors saying otherwise on Thursday night.Read more...

Believe it or not, Kanye West is being sued… again.Read more...

The mother of a 7-year-old girl is suing her elementary school after they forced her to make a public apology after writing “any life” on a Black Lives Matter drawing, according to the Daily Mail. The incident itself is a year old but another parent had just told her what happened recently.

Cobb Country, Georgia, which has the second largest school district in the state, voted for a policy that will allow non-police officers to carry guns in the classroom, the Associated Press reports. However, the new rule will not allow teachers to carry firearms. This is a departure from some states like Ohio that cut…Read more...

A former New Castle County police corporal has been sentenced to one year of probation after repeatedly pulling on a 16-year-old girl’s hair and dragging her up a hallway by her handcuffs on her stomach, according to the Delaware News Journal. Michael Carnevale pleaded guilty and also agreed to never seek employment…Read more...

James Whitfield made news when he agreed to resign from his position as the first African American principal of Colleyville High School in Texas after being accused of teaching Critical Race Theory. And we all cried foul, knowing that “agreed to resign” is just a nice way of saying he was fired for being “too woke.”…Read more...

Muhammad A. Aziz, one of the men exonerated for the murder of civil rights activist Malcolm X last year, is suing the city of New York and former law enforcement officials involved in the investigation decades ago for $40 million, according to the New York Times.Read more...

Black-ish star Anthony Anderson is feeling some type of way at the fact that his popular show got snubbed as it relates to this year’s Emmy nominees.Read more...

Austin Davis, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor, is being questioned about inappropriate and misogynistic tweets he posted more than a decade ago as an intern.Read more...

According to a Reuters journalist who is covering the trial, the defense team for U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner explained to a Russian court on Friday the athlete was prescribed medical cannabis to help with a chronic injury. She pled guilty to drugs charges after she was detained at a Moscow airport in…Read more...

The woman whose accusations of harassment led to one of the country’s most notorious lynchings wrote a memoir about the incident that was never published.Read more...

You can chose to prosper. Yes, you heard us right. Success is not accidental, but something that we intentionally set out to do, that’s according to Bola Sokunbi.

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On the debut episode of Angie Martinez’s new Angie Martinez: IRL Podcast, Without Remorse star Lauren London opens up about the lessons she’s learned about death after Nipsey Hussle’s passing, the pure love the two of them shared and her desire to move out of Los Angeles.Read more...

An Alaskan police officer is under investigation after being found in a photo with a woman flashing a “White Privilege” card, according to The Associated Press. The picture was taken during a traffic stop when the MAGA-hat-wearing woman was pulled over. She handed the officers the card instead of her license and …Read more...

The House passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to push government officials to report instances of white supremacy among the military and law enforcement ranks, The Hill reports. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.)’s sponsored measure made it through with a 218-208 party-line vote that saw every…Read more...

It’s up in Washington D.C.! The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), one of the most incredible and Blackest museums I’ve ever, is doing one thing this summer to add to its blackness. They are throwing a Hip-Hop block party this summer, according to the Smithsonian.Read more...

Texas Representative Ronny Jackson says former President Barack Obama gave him the business after the White House physician-turned-politician had some not-so-nice things to say about President Joe Biden’s cognitive health.

As an added measure to combat gun violence that continues to plague the country, the House passed the Active Shooter Alert Act to create a communication network to notify the public if an active shooter is in their neighborhood, NBC news reports. This comes off the heels of representatives passing the ‘Protecting Our…Read more...

Former “Dancing with the Stars” winner Alfonso Ribeiro is going back to the show but in a different capacity.Read more...

Continuing what a tragic year for former football athletes, yet another NFL alumnus has died.Read more...

The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a murder conviction of a Portland man after finding out the prosecutors dismissed two Black jurors from the jury pool because of their race, according to OregonLive. The district attorney’s decision to strike both jurors was for “race-neutral” reasons.

Lawyers for Marilyn Mosby, the progressive Baltimore prosecutor who faces several legal battles of her own, are fighting to get federal perjury charges against her dropped.Read more...

Get Out and Judas and the Black Messiah star Daniel Kaluuya will, unfortunately, not be reprising his role as W’Kabi in the upcoming Black Panther sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.Read more...

On Wednesday, it was revealed that Khloe Kardashian is expecting her second child via surrogate with Tristan Thompson. Kardashian, 38, and the Chicago Bulls player, 31, are are already parents to 4-year-old daughter True Thompson.Read more...

If you just copped a brand new video doorbell in a Prime Day sale, but you’re concerned about the ever-expanding police/surveillance state we live in, you may want to consider the purchase after reading this.Read more...

Two weeks after R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering charges, the disgraced R&B singer returned on Tuesday to a federal jail in his hometown of Chicago before his trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges, according to the Chicago Tribune.Read more...

The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $7.5 million in a settlement to Desmond Ricks, a Black man who claims the police framed him for a murder he did not commit, according to The Associated Press. Ricks spent 25 years in prison on a wrongful conviction.

If you want to learn more about the University of Central Florida’s stance on racism, you won’t find the information on the website. In fact, the Orlando public research university is taking steps to remove anti-racist statements from its departments’ websites. You’re probably thinking that this is a huge step in the…Read more...

Despite how Will Smith may be viewed by folks both inside and outside of Hollywood right now, thanks to the now infamous Oscars slap, his Bad Boys costar Martin Lawrence isn’t going to let that get in the way of the two reuniting for one more film.Read more...

Clarence Thomas’ messy ass is yet again being called out. This time it comes in the form of a petition demanding his impeachment. Devised by the public policy advocacy group MoveOn, the document has received 1.2 million signatures and calls for Thomas to be impeached or resign, which is possible under the U.S.…Read more...

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The U.S. Capitol, a building constructed by Black slaves and which was overrun on Jan. 6, 2021 by overwhelmingly white rioters in support of a racist president, is home to a new statue of one of the nation’s most important Black educators.Read more...

A Manhattan bar, Sweet and Vicious, agreed to pay $500,000 to current and former employees who claimed managers were sexually inappropriate with them as well as racist, according to ABC 7 News. The Attorney General’s Office called the bar a “hostile and discriminatory workplace” that subjected employees to sexual…Read more...

Back in 1995, a group of Boston cops jumped a Black man dressed in street clothes in an alley in the city’s Mattapan neighborhood, a diverse corner of the city that was rife with gang violence back then, and beat him until he passed out.Read more...

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Not only is Styles P a celebrated rapper with The Lox, but it turns out he’s also a hero.Read more...

During the seventh Jan. 6th select House committee’s public hearing on the Jan. 6th Capitol riot yesterday, the public learned additional details on the planning. We learned the context of former President Trump’s Dec. 19th tweet about the “wild protest,” who coordinated around it, and that Trump himself reached out…Read more...

Though it’s been nearly one month since The Wendy Williams Show said goodbye to its fans and loyal followers for good, the eponymous host is finally speaking out and sharing her thoughts on the series finale, which astonishingly went forward without her.Read more...

Colombia now has its first Black Ambassador to the United States. In a July 12 tweet, Colombia’s president-elect, Gustavo Petro, announced that Luis Gilberto Murillo would become the country’s newest ambassador to the United States when he takes office in August.

Last week, I told you about the initial experience our gang of four grown-ups had upon boarding the Disney Wish. In part two of my recap, I want to dive deeper into the experiences we had at Castaway Cay, Disney’s private island in the Bahamas, and on our following day at sea.Read more...

Less than two weeks before Jordan Peele’s NOPE, the creepy AF UFO-centric film starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, is set to hit theaters, its leading man has teamed up with designer Jide Osifeso for some limited-edition merch to coincide with it.Read more...

The Austin American-Statesman and ABC affiliate KVUE have obtained surveillance footage of the Uvalde shooting and released it to the public, per their reports. The footage only intensified the belief that the officers were delayed in their response but also enraged the families who hadn’t gotten a chance to view the …Read more...

A man identified as Semoen Tesfamariam was charged on Tuesday with assaulting former Olympic volleyball player Kim Glass, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.Read more...