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A judge is clearing the way for a lawsuit to continue against the town of Windsor, Virginia, for what it alleges is a clear pattern of discriminatory police activity. The Office of the Attorney General initially filed this lawsuit after a 2020 traffic stop that involved two Windsor police officers and an Army…Read more...

Looks like we’ll never get to smell what Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s presidential run was cooking, as it’s recently been revealed that the Black Adam star won’t be officially turning in a bid for the highest office in the land come 2024.

On Thursday, Jeremy Bertino, who is a top lieutenant to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in federal court. In addition, he has agreed to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s investigation into the extremist group.Read more...

Kanye West’s shenanigans throughout the years are well-documented. From running for president to wearing a “MAGA” hat to posing with Trump to saying that “slavery was a choice,” the Chicago rapper has said almost any and everything to piss people off. But his latest stunt might be the worst.Read more...

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Updated as of 10/7/2022 at 10:45 a.m. ET: On Friday, TMZ released video footage of the altercation between the two teammates.Read more...

The story of Harriet Tubman is a historic one and is being commemorated by the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. In a recent unveiling, the bronze statue shows the hero holding a lantern and carrying a pistol in a belt.

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On Thursday, a bus carrying migrants and asylum seekers was unceremoniously dropped off at Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence at the Naval Observatory for the second time this year.Read more...

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) has weighed in for the first time after an eventful week for his Republican opponent Herschel Walker. In an interview with Yahoo News, Warnock called the recent allegations stemming from a report that Walker paid for an abortion in 2009 for his then-girlfriend “disturbing.”Read more...

Unfortunately, it feels like there’s a beloved rapper who’s dying every other day. Whether it’s from sickness or they’re being murdered by gun violence, there’s always another one. It’s just very unfortunate that so many talented and beloved MCs have lost their lives in five year’s time.Read more...

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Michaela Coel is about to hit the big screen in a big way in the highly-anticipated sequel to the blockbuster Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.Read more...

Extensive rebuilding efforts are ongoing as Florida looks to rebound from Hurricane Ian’s devastation across the state. However, Black residents in lower-income neighborhoods say they have felt wholly forgotten regarding receiving help. Sounds familiar?Read more...

Once again multi-millionaire Ice Cube is complaining about something.Read more...

President Joe Biden said this afternoon that he was pardoning thousands of people convicted on federal marijuana possession charges, wiping their records clean and clearing the way for them to more fully participate in social and economic activities.Read more...

Updated on 10/6/2022 at 4p.m. ET: Both Cory Hardrict and his soon-to-be ex-sister-in-law, Tamera Mowry-Housely, are speaking up in the wake of the news of Hardrict and Tia Mowry’s impending divorce.Read more...

The family of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in custody of Rochester police, will be paid $12 million in settlement by the city, according to an NBC News report. Prude’s case was another where someone in desperate need of mental help lost their life at the hands of cops who weren’t trained to handle mental crises.

Fans of Desus Nice & The Kid Mero were shocked by the comedy duo’s surprise split in July and the subsequent cancellation of their late-night show, Desus & Mero, on Showtime. Since then, we’ve wondered how the cohosts of the popular Bodega Boys podcast would do on their own while remaining curious about what will come…Read more...

Research has found that Black women are 40 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. We also have a lower five-year relative breast cancer survival rate when compared to white women.

Even though he just signed an extension to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers until the 2024-25 season, that doesn’t mean all-star guard Lebron James can’t look forward to what’s next. While the NBA has been hinting at possible expansion of teams in the near future, James has a specific request to commissioner Adam…Read more...

A woman charged with a misdemeanor for recording Minnesota police officers holding two Black men at gunpoint settled her federal lawsuit against the city for $70,000, according to the Star Tribune. In addition to monetary compensation, the city also agreed to policy reform within the police department.

The life and times of actress and Red Table Talk host Jada Pinkett Smith will be coming to a bookshelf near us soon, as it was announced on Thursday that the Gotham star is set to release a memoir next fall.Read more...

There’s a meme featuring Samuel L. Jackson in his role from the 2006's Black Snake Moan—his eyes bulging, hairline receding and salt-and-pepper hair uncombed—that captures fatherhood perfectly. “33% of your job as a dad is staring at your kids like this until they act right,” the caption reads.

Ghost! Styles P is walking away from rap, but before he goes, the New York MC is going to give fans some more music to chew on.Read more...

A new article by NPR reveals the fight Black folks in Maryland have undergone to preserve a historically Black cemetery. Currently, Moses Macedonia African Cemetery on River Road in Bethesda is in danger of disappearing.Read more...

Did you know that y’all’s vice president was in a fender bender on Monday morning and nobody said anything?

A Cook County judge has dismissed eight convictions connected to former Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts. For years, he has been accused of framing people at the former Bronzeville Ida B. Wells public housing complex.Read more...

The “last name ever, first name greatest” rapper from Toronto, a.k.a. Drake will be taking the stage for the very first time at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater in November.Read more...

An attorney for a Black man serving a life sentence for a crime he committed at 17 suggested to the Supreme Court that his sentencing was tainted with racial bias, according to The Associated Press. The leniency white juvenile defendants were granted failed to reach Black defendants as well, they said.

Hundreds of thousands of dreamers have been waiting with bated breath to see how the fifth circuit was going to rule on yet another challenge to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. And on Wednesday, we finally got a decision.Read more...

There are gifts that keep giving, and gifts you’d be totally OK with not having. Herschel Walker’s U.S. Senate campaign falls, obviously, in the latter category. Early on it was great from a journalism perspective: a celebrity athlete with a lot of questions to answer jumping into politics provides great fodder. But…Read more...

The mother of Daunte Wright’s son has filed a lawsuit against civil rights attorney Ben Crump, his law firm, and Wright’s parents, according to CBS News. The dispute is said to be over Gofundme proceeds raised after Daunte Wright Sr’s death.Read more...

As WNBA champion Brittney Griner’s Russian appeal looms on Oct. 25, her wife, Cherelle Griner, is still fighting for the basketball star’s freedom. On Thursday, in the wake of the two-time Olympic gold medalist’s nine-year sentence for drug smuggling and possession, Cherelle spoke with CBS Mornings’ Gayle King about…Read more...

As we excitedly wait to figure out who the new Black Panther is in Black Panther: Wakanda Fovever, we decided to look back at some of the badass and bionic Black female superheroes we grew up wanting to be.

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One of the biggest cult movies of the ‘90s was The Usual Suspects, a heist flick that revolves around the legend of arch-criminal Kaiser Sose. Verbal Kint, a disabled thief caught up in a job gone bad has watched his accomplices be exterminated one-by-one when he pitifully tells the cop interrogating him that Sose is…Read more...

The first church service I ever attended must’ve been when I was about 10 or so; I learned the first and only Bible verse I memorized in my childhood that day, Romans 8:11.Read more...

Diddy is tired of the disrespect and jokes that he never pays his artists, specifically addressing one of the rappers who previously was signed with Bad Boy Records, Ma$e.Read more...

Kanye West has faced an unprecedented amount of backlash since pulling the now infamous “White Lives Matter” t-shirt stunt at his Paris fashion show Monday. His critics have ranged from Gigi Hadid to Jaden Smith, but a more important one has emerged.Read more...

Paris Fashion Week had no shortage of slay-worthy moments this season. Some of the best-dressed people in the world headed to the City of Lights to see what designer brands are cooking up for the next season.

We know you’ve already got Michelle Obama’s The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times book tour marked on your calendar. However, the Forever First Lady has announced some of the moderators joining her, and it seems like she’s really looking for people to make things fun.

Contrary to popular belief, and the unfortunate stereotypical demographic of theater-goers, Black people have long had a presence on Broadway. In fact, we have a rich, documented history with theater that goes all the way back to 1821, when a free Black man from the West Indies, William Alexander Brown, opened up the …Read more...

A bombshell new civil class action lawsuit alleges that the NYPD has an illegal policy of sending people with warrants attached to their names to city jails without ever bringing them before a judge.Read more...

From the moment it was confirmed that No Time to Die would be Daniel Craig’s final film as James Bond, the speculation on his successor has been rampant. Names that regularly make the rounds include Tom Hiddleston, Henry Cavill and Idris Elba. The Beast star is one of the only Black actors who always remains in the…Read more...

I don’t want to say it was easy, but maintaining a healthy weight required a lot less effort in my 20s and 30s. A few fries here or a slice of cake there barely made a difference in the grand scheme of things. And I never thought twice about saying yes to a happy hour after a hard day at work. But something happened…Read more...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s investigation into election inference in Georgia is picking up speed. A legal filing from the DA’s office showed that they are trying to obtain and execute a series of search warrants based on unnamed “sensitive information acquired during the investigation,” according to…Read more...

Kendrick Lamar continues to win at life. He was the most awarded artist at the 2022 BET Hip Hop awards. He’s coming off of an amazing performance on Saturday Night Live and, earlier this year, he dropped one of the best albums of 2022, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.Read more...

The Root previously wrote about the efforts Republican legislatures are using to stop President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. However, a conservative legal group is mad about this plan for another reason. On behalf of the Brown County Taxpayers Association, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a…Read more...