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Christopher Shaw is accusing a Texas police officer of paralyzing him during an arrest in June 2021, per 12NewsNow. According to his lawsuit, the officer body slammed him onto the concrete ground leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. Both his attorneys and local civil rights activists are rallying behind him in…Read more...

Kenan Thompson has a lot going on right now. He just received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he’s hosting the Primetime Emmys and is about to start his 20th season on Saturday Night Live. Now, it seems he might also be working on a fun blast from his past.

For months, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has used the “war on Woke ideology” as a pillar to lift his profile within the Republican party. For a representative who claims he backs freedom of speech, the “Stop WOKE Act” actually placed a limit on how Black and people of color speak about their history in schools and…Read more...

If you liked Games of Thrones, you’ll probably like House of the Dragon because it’s essentially the same show. After years of developing multiple spinoffs to its fantasy hit, HBO decided to play it extremely safe and just give fans more of what they want, but with steadier hands driving the action.

Updated as of 8/19/2022 at 9:15 a.m. ET

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The U.S. Postal service has closed a rural post office in Virginia located near Former President James Madison’s Montpelier estate because management was concerned over an exhibition highlighting its history of segregation, Axios reports. For more than 110 years, the Montpelier Station served customers but had…Read more...

“Were you vaccinated for polio? Do you think I was vaccinated for polio,” I asked my boyfriend two nights ago, as a part of my typical daily concern rambling.

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Can we taaaaaalk...for a minute? I want to know if you know about the latest interview with Tevin Campbell where he opens up about what it’s like as a Black, gay man in the industry and his self-love journey.Read more...

Nathan Connolly, a Black professor who teaches the history of housing discrimination in America at Johns Hopkins University, claims that he and his family were subjected to discrimination according to a story in the New York Times.Read more...

Kanye West is back at it again.Read more...

A recent filing by the Justice Department claims Florida Republicans intentionally targeted Black voters with restrictions which will surely hamper turnout for the upcoming midterm election, according to The Guardian. This stems from Florida’s SB 90 law wanting to restrict the availability of absentee ballot drop…Read more...

Apparently, those close to Donald Trump are encouraging him to release the footage from his Mar-a-Lago property being raided by the FBI earlier this month. Though the former president hasn’t confirmed whether or not he’ll release the tapes, his son told Fox News that it’ll happen.Read more...

The Lawrence County Republican Party, located in Alabama, issued an apology after they “accidentally” used a picture of the GOP elephant that included Ku Klux Klan imagery.Read more...

Since eight HBCUs received bomb threats on Jan. 4th, Black leaders have been hoping the FBI and the Biden administration would find punish those accountable. As we speak, more than a third of Black colleges have been calls comprised of racial slurs and threats.

If you can’t get enough Real Housewives here in America, there are also versions of the popular Bravo franchise in Africa and NBCUniversal has plans to expand the series across the continent.

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Jamie Foxx have several Seats! In a new interview with CinemaBlend, Jamie Foxx explained that “All-Star Weekend,” a 2016 comedy where he served as director, remains unreleased due to potential backlash. The cast includes Jeremy Piven, Robert Downey Jr., Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler and Eva Longoria.Read more...

With the ceremony coming up on Aug. 28, the MTV VMAs have announced three of the biggest names in hip-hop as hosts.

On Wednesday, rapper A$AP Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, pleaded not guilty in connection with the 2021 alleged shooting of former A$AP mob member A$AP Relli, legal name Terell Ephron.Read more...

Deshaun Watson’s new suspension has come down.Read more...

It’s been over a month since anyone has seen Owami Davies, a 24-year-old Black nursing student in London. Davies was last seen on CCTV cameras on July 7th, walking down a street in West Croydon, in south London, wearing a red Adidas top, a dark jacket, light jogger pants (sweatpants) and slides.Read more...

Already a star in the music industry, Lil Baby is dipping his feet into fashion.Read more...

While Serena Williams’ planned retirement at the 2022 US Open has received most of the tennis headlines lately, her older sister, Venus Williams, is also set to compete at the final major tournament of the year.

There’s no doubt that three-time Emmy-award winner Sterling K. Brown is a damn good actor. He’s shown his range, playing real-life attorney Christopher Darden in the FX miniseries, The People v. O.J. Simpson, vampire hunter Gordon Walker in the fantasy drama series Supernatural, and a host of memorable roles too long…Read more...

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Newly appointed State Attorney Susan Lopez has decided to reverse a policy that disproportionately targets Black cyclists as one of her first moves in the position, according to Fox 13 News. The bike stop and pedestrian stop policy, dubbed the “Biking While Black” policy previously led to an investigation by the…Read more...

I’m going to be generous and say that the Democrats have had a somewhat rocky time of late trying to pass their agenda. But on Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act — the Build Back Better Act’s trimmed down cousin.Read more...

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane was ordered to report to a low-security federal prison in Colorado on August 30th to serve his two-and-a-half year sentence for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, CNN reports. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson recommended Lane serve his sentence at Federal Prison Camp…Read more...

Since The Wendy Williams Show ended in June, there have been a plethora of rumors and speculation as to the reasons why Debmar-Mercury ultimately decided to pull the plug on the popular program. While we knew the decision was largely brought on by Williams ongoing and seemingly increasingly declining health issues,…Read more...

Anything Deion wants, he gets.Read more...

Rick Ross’ famous food franchise, Wingstop, has been fined for various labor violations at five of its Mississippi locations. The U.S. Department of Labor shared their findings on their website last week.Read more...

Contrary to popular belief, there’s still plenty of summer left.Read more...

A hit-and-run car crash outside a Black-owned gay bar in Chicago left three dead and one injured, according to local CBS News. Officials say the events leading up to the incident suggest the crash was intentional. The lone survivor of the incident shared his story after waking up from the hospital to find his two…Read more...

As kids return to school in certain states, their libraries might have fewer titles to choose from. This is due to an ongoing push by conservative leaders who have deemed certain books unsuitable for school children. Texas currently has the most significant number of book bans, ranking at 713 titles.Read more...

Kid Cudi has had enough. He’s tired of Kanye West, he’s tired of the trolls on Twitter, he’s tired of everything.Read more...

Amara Skye didn’t hold anything back in a new interview with Essence about her famous grandmother, Whoopi Goldberg. Skye, 32, is currently on the ABC reality television show “Claim To Fame,” hosted by Kevin and Frankie Jonas (of Jonas brothers fame).Read more...

Damn, why hit Young Thug while he’s still down?Read more...

All 30 teams in the NBA will not host any games on November 8th, the date of the midterm elections, to galvanize fans to get out and vote, according to CNN. Instead, games will be played the night before on November 7th “to amplify the work of each team to promote civic engagement in their respective markets and share…Read more...

A Seat at the Table and When I Get Home singer Solange will be adding yet another impressive notch to her belt when makes her debut as a composer this fall at the New York City Ballet. With this feat, she also becomes the first Black woman and third woman ever to write an original score for the prestigious …Read more...

As the world now knows, actress Angelina Jolie has her daughter, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt, off to her first year at Spelman College, according to PEOPLE. The renowned women’s HBCU was a special choice considering Jolie could have encouraged her daughter to go to any PWI or predominately white institution. But…Read more...

The ongoing investigation in Georgia looking into former president Trump’s election inference has been picking up steam over the past few days. Former Trump lawyer Rudy Guiliani was told by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office that he is a grand jury target. Former Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis and…Read more...

It looks like there’s a new Verzuz battle on the horizon—only this time, it involves the creators of the popular pandemic music battle series, super producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland and social networking service Triller.Read more...

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Did anyone else know that Snoop Dogg has his own line of breakfast products called Broadus Foods and that he co-founded it with Percy “Master P” Miller?Read more...

A 58-year-old white man has been charged with a hate crime after drunkenly hurling a knife at a group of Black men and spitting racial slurs at them, according to NBC News. The New York Police Department said the man approached the group “unprovoked,” and called them the N-word.

There was nothing Dr. Nisha Verma, an OBGYN based in Atlanta, could do when one of her patients’ water broke at 15 weeks – ending any chance at a healthy birth, but wait.Read more...

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Five Black residents of Lexington, Mississippi have filed a lawsuit against the police department for infringing upon their constitutional rights and racially targeting them, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY. Previously, the department’s police chief was fired for bragging about shooting and killing Black…Read more...