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It’s official: Balenciaga has severed ties with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. As WWD reports, the announcement was made Thursday after the brand’s third-quarter results were published.Read more...

A lot of us are working from home these days. And as a result, we may have let our guard down a little bit. But that doesn’t mean your boss isn’t still keeping an eye (and probably an ear) on what you’re doing from 9 to 5. Now, more than ever, companies have lots of ways to track the sites their employees visit and…Read more...

The 2nd Ranger Company, which is the sole all-Black special operations combat unit in the history of the United States, will be celebrated in a limited TV show called “Buffalo Rangers.” Additionally, it will be written and produced by Bruce McKenna (“Band of Brothers”), Nick Jones Jr. (“Yasuke”) and David…Read more...

I’m gonna let y’all in on a little secret: Aside from watching my Denver Broncos embarrass themselves every week on national television, I don’t watch anywhere near as much TV as y’all think I do. In fact, let me get some confessions out the way, since—to quote one Usher Terry Raymond IV—if I’m gonna tell it, then I’m…Read more...

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It’s not every day the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sends somebody a check for $9 million, but that day actually became a reality for writer/director/producer Tyler Perry.Read more...

Back in August, Albuquerque police officers fired 16 fatal rounds at Keshawn Thomas, 27, who was drunk, sleeping in his car, reports say. Although, according to The Daily Beast, a policing expert found after reviewing the body camera footage that it was the officers who instigated a heated interaction with Thomas…Read more...

The small town of Greenwood, Miss., will reveal a nine-foot statue of Emmett Till today while also having an extensive confederate monument, the Associated Press reports. This is more than fifty years after two white men kidnapped and lynched the Black teenager for whistling at a white woman.Read more...

Trevor Noah’s decision to leave The Daily Show in December was a shock to everyone, especially his co-workers.

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The Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving began the latest NBA season with a passionate plea to President Biden to bring home Brittney Griner. In August, Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for drug smuggling and possession after customs officials said they found hashish oil cartridges in her luggage. Tuesday…Read more...

After 20 years, Suzan-Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize-winning work Topdog/Underdog is making its way back to Broadway. With opening night set for Thursday, the long-awaited revival is set to star two powerhouse actors, namely Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins, who are determined to bring the drama, the danger, and most…Read more...

While Travis Scott is back doing live performances and gearing up for another potential album, the families of the victims who were hurt and killed at the 2021 Astroworld festival are still feeling the effects of the tragedy that occurred over a year ago.Read more...

It’s not even January yet, but another Republican representative is trying to co-opt Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. At a campaign rally stop on Wednesday where former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard joined her, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake claimed if the civil rights activist were alive today, he would be an…Read more...

A federal jury in Indiana indicted Sergeant Eric Huxley on Tuesday for violating a Jermaine Vaughn’s civil rights by using excessive force during a 2021 arrest. Disturbing body camera footage showed Huxley stomping on Vaughan’s face while he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back.Read more...

Add a slap-your-forehead emoji for this one. Ever found yourself in a situation where you accidentally sent someone money that you didn’t mean to? I know it’s happened to me plenty of times where I accidentally sent a friend or a family member $20 or $50. It’s a mistake, it happens; but some mistakes can turn out to…Read more...

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Richard “Randy” Cox, a man left paralyzed after being injured in a police vehicle, has had all his charges dropped, according to NBC Connecticut. His attorney, civil rights giant Benjamin Crump, said this was a step in the right direction but there’s more to be done to address the officers’ display of racial bias…Read more...

It’s October, which means HBCU homecoming season is in full swing. And if you’ve ever been to homecoming at an HBCU, you already know that it’s a whole vibe. And because you’re gonna want to leave a lasting impression with your friends (and your haters, and your crush who messed around on you with your roommate), you…Read more...

Blended families are difficult under the best circumstances. I imagine that having the press track your every interaction makes things even harder.

A new report by The Washington Post examines the change in Covid-19 mortality that started in October 2021. From the beginning of the pandemic, the racial disparity between Black and white folks dying from the coronavirus was substantial. Black people were more than three times as likely to die from covid as their…Read more...

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The Arizona governor and Senate races will be crucial in determining which party has control after the 2022 midterm elections. However, in Maricopa County, officials say that election workers are getting harassed three weeks before people hit the polls, CBS 5 reports. At the voting tabulation center in Maricopa, three…Read more...

There’s a good chance R. Kelly spends the rest of his life in prison for his role as a convicted rapist and sex trafficker. But his onetime business manager and co-d says since he was acquitted on charges of helping Kelly orchestrate a conspiracy, he wants his life back and that starts with trying to recoup the…Read more...

A GOP candidate for an Arizona college district’s governing board was allegedly caught with his pants down in the worst place imaginable earlier this month. Police arrested the candidate, Randy Kauffman, on public sexual indecency charges after an officer allegedly caught him masturbating in his car near a preschool.Read more...

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Unless you forgot, Young Thug and Gunna are still sitting in an Atlanta jail awaiting their trial date after they were both arrested and charged five months ago on RICO charges by Atlanta police. Since then, both rappers have been denied bond by a superior court judge on multiple occasions.Read more...

While watching FS1’s coverage of the MLB playoffs in recent days, baseball fans may have noticed a blatantly racist anti-immigration advertisement repeatedly played during commercial breaks. A group that called themselves “Citizens for Sanity” made an ad depicting immigrants of Latino descent as drug dealers and…Read more...

Updated as of 10/20/2022 at 11:20 a.m. ET: Whoopi Goldberg has now entered the chat in response to Meghan Markle’s comments about her time on Deal or No Deal.Read more...

Who knew college kids would lose their mind over a Bryson Tiller appearance at their school? On Tuesday, the 29-year-old R&B singer went to Howard University. He experienced much success with his 2015 album, Trapsoul. Tiller has been working on a new album, releasing its lead single “Outside” just last month.Read more...

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Nominees for the 2022 Soul Train Awards are finally here! This year’s ceremony is set to be hosted by comedian and Black-ish star Deon Cole, who’ll be bringing the funny for audiences when they gather in Las Vegas next month.Read more...

Planned Parenthood is one of the country’s leading reproductive rights organizations. It describes itself as a place that serves all patients with “care and compassion, with respect and without judgment.” But this week, a Black former employee put the organization on blast for what she describes as racism and…Read more...

For Black people, hair discrimination is still a major issue. In fact, it’s such a pervasive problem that in March 2021, Senator Cory Booker introduced the CROWN Act (S. 888), which will “prohibit discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair,” per the United States Congress. The bill has already…Read more...

I doubt anyone’s ever bought or streamed Cardi B’s music to admire the accompanying album artwork, but here we are. A man in California is suing the rapper, claiming she humiliated him and damaged his reputation by using his image on a mixtape cover from 2016. Yep, six years ago.Read more...

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Long Covid conditions are defined by the CDC as a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems that people experience after first being infected with the coronavirus. Many people who receive Covid and recover often think they no longer experience the effects of the disease. However, that may not always be…Read more...

The family of Ali Osman, a man who was fatally shot by Phoenix police after he allegedly threw rocks at one of their patrol units, is suing for $85 million. Last month, two police vehicles were driving through the intersection of 19th Avenue and Tuckey Lane. According to a news release from law enforcement “their cars…Read more...

Alabama is one of the states giving their voters the chance to amend the 13th Amendment: the exemption from slavery or involuntary servitude unless your are convicted of a crime. Ironically, the incarcerated individuals in the state’s prisons recently went on strike, refusing to do any of the free labor they were…Read more...

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Oprah is hitting the campaign trail in Georgia—sort of—to help Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams.

Since the 2020 presidential election, Republican-led state legislatures have been reshaping voting maps and passing restrictions that have added barriers to Black and people of color. So what happens if the GOP takes that a step farther and tries to change who counts as a Black person? That is a question the Supreme…Read more...

Despite the increasing cries and demands from folks online to #RecastTchalla in the Black Panther franchise, Marvel has remained steadfast in its decision not to—at least for the time being and when it comes to the second iteration, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Now, one of the franchise’s stars has come out in…Read more...

Known for creating Black-ish, Grown-ish and Mixed-ish, Kenya Barris has his hands in many other properties, most recently Entergalactic, a Netflix special created in collaboration with Kid Cudi, who released a soundtrack of the same name when the special was released.

Conswuella Africa thought she’d laid her daughter, Katricia Dotson, to rest decades ago. The fourteen year-old had been killed in the tragic Philadelphia MOVE bombing and, until recently, it seemed her remains had been buried alongside the other victims.Read more...

Let me start this off by saying that there’s almost nothing I love more than a good deal on clothes. And since this is a safe space, I feel like I can admit that I’m guilty of buying pieces from fast fashion brands. But in my ongoing effort to become a better global citizen, I felt like I needed to take a closer look…Read more...

The very first thing Parler, the Candace Owens’ husband-owned haven for hate speech, did after announcing that Kanye West plans to buy it was send an email about its plans to a few hundred of the platform’s most important users and associates. It makes sense for any company to reach out to key users and the like…Read more...

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is not discreet when using various forms of media to get his messages across. He’s finished basketball games and headed straight to record his podcast on The Volume. However, his latest move might have you wondering why he didn’t give his punching incident with fellow…Read more...