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The first slate of projects from the NAACP-CBS Studios production partnership has been announced, and it ranges from comedy to drama to historical limited series to a reboot of a ‘90s cult movie.

FX has officially given a series order to the television adaptation of Octavia Butler’s book, Kindred.

Get rid of the filibuster. Throw it in the trash. Bury it in an unmarked grave so nobody can find it. The filibuster, which was rarely used for two centuries in the United States, is outdated as the powdered wigs it was created with. Unless it’s a tool to impede the rights of Black people in American–as late Sen. Stro…Read more...

Well, 2022 is certainly starting off with a few surprises. Among them, Star Jones returning to daytime TV as the new judge on Divorce Court.

It was announced by New York State Senator Sean M. Ryan that an artist from Buffalo, New York will be designing a statue to honor the late Shirley Chisholm, who was a political trailblazer, according to a press release from Senator Ryan.

If you’ve ever wanted to play matchmaker for your single parent, HBO Max has a show for you. Hosted by Yvonne Orji, My Mom, Your Dad is a new reality dating series that premieres all eight episodes on the streaming network Thursday, Jan. 13.

Since we live in a bizarro world in which COVID-19 variants are out here dropping Bad Boy remixes, while former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores spent his Monday morning inexplicably updating his resume, there’s a rather loud section of the internet that can’t help but ask one burning question: How in the hell does…Read more...

The family of a Black man who was killed by Sacramento County detectives a year ago in January 2021 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit and they are seeking a lot of money, according to ABC10.Read more...

Sixteen major universities, including Yale, Brown, Notre Dame, and Dartmouth, are being sued for antitrust violations accusing the schools of working together to limit financial aid. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday alleged that this group of schools engaged in price-fixing and unfairly limited aid by…Read more...

We may live in one of the most divisive political eras in history, but there are some arguments that should be settled. One of those is that Nazis are unequivocally awful and anybody who believes there’s more than one way to think about a political ideology that plunged half of Earth into war over putting people into…Read more...

The New York times is reporting wild new details about an alleged connection between Haiti’s new prime minister and the main suspect in the assassination of his predecessor.

While I was preoccupied with trying to sleep off a headache after a 13-hour workday, the rest of the world was watching Alabama coach Nick Saban endure a headache of his own.Read more...

While the overall unemployment rate in the United States dipped in December, it, unfortunately, rose for Black women, according to CNBC.Read more...

Though legendary actor and icon Sidney Poitier undoubtedly received his flowers on this side of heaven before his passing on Jan. 7, it appears his legacy will continue to be peppered with petals thanks to a new documentary from Apple and Oprah Winfrey.

I wanna be Dwyane Wade when I grow up.

During his “For What It’s Worth” stand-up, Dave Chappelle once said that American money “looks like baseball cards with slave owners on them.” In 2016, the Obama administration first announced a proposal to replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman by 2020. Like with most…Read more...

Rachael Rollins, the former Suffolk County district attorney, was sworn in as the next United States Attorney for Massachusetts, becoming the first Black woman to be the top federal prosecutor in the state, according to WCVB.Read more...

The CW has enlisted Ava DuVernay to bring its newest superhero Naomi to life. Unlike the network’s other heroes, Naomi is a comic book loving teenage Black girl who discovers a mysterious history to her hometown.

What we’ve learned about Wisconsin since 2020 is that up is down, right is left and justice, apparently, isn’t. How else to describe a place where a jury finds no criminal liability for Kyle Rittenhouse, the governor pardons folk who walk out of their houses pointing guns at people who are literally just walking by…Read more...

The plot thickens! Or at the very least, it will be explored in the upcoming drama series from Disney’s Onyx Collective and Endeavor Content.Read more...

It seems congratulations are in order for Harriet and Genius: Aretha star Cynthia Erivo.Read more...

I’m selfish.Read more...

Well, at least there’s a U.S. state that is making an impact on voting rights in a positive way. N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams has allowed voting legislation to become law on Sunday, letting 800,000 New York noncitizens who work and live in the city to vote in local elections. New York City would be the largest jurisdiction…Read more...

As the Omicron surge continues in the U.S., so does the debate between in-person and remote learning. The Chicago Teachers Union and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration continued a standoff as negotiations roll into week two.Read more...

If you’ve ever wondered about the inception and evolution of Kanye West’s musical genius, then boy have I got good news for you!

MSNBC is beefing up its political ranks ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Symone Sanders is joining the news network as a weekend host, as well as Peacock’s The Choice from MSNBC.

If you’re a Denver Broncos fan—this would be the part where I reluctantly raise my hand—there wasn’t much to look forward to on Sunday other than when I hurled confetti at the announcement that head coach Vic “I Don’t See Racism at All in the NFL” Fangio, trash-ass offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur, and alleged…Read more...

The office for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Sunday that the Congresswoman tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing symptoms. The announcement came alongside positive results for three other members of Congress as Omicron overwhelms the U.S. and sweeps through Congress.Read more...

We’re finally getting our first look at Peacock’s reimagined Bel-Air. The streamer has released the trailer for the drama starring Jabari Banks as Will.

Protestors in Fayetteville, North Carolina gathered at the police station to publicly denounce the fatal shooting of a Black man killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy, according to the Herald Sun.Read more...

ABC is taking a hard look at the real life pain and impact of Emmett TIll’s murder and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s fight for justice.

If you didn’t know the 79th Annual Golden Globe Awards were taking place Sunday, we can’t fault you, as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn’t exactly make it easy to find out what was going on.

For fans of the Golden State Warriors, June 13, 2019, is a day that will live on in infamy. Because on that fateful day, not only did Golden State lose to the Toronto Raptors in the 2019 NBA Finals, but the franchise lost a key component of its very own championship DNA to a gruesome knee injury.Read more...

The Root sends condolences to the victims of Sunday’s horrific fire in the Bronx in which 19 people, including nine children, lost their lives.Read more...

Heading into the 2022 midterms, the Democratic party holds a slim majority in the House and an even smaller 50-50 one in the Senate (depending on how Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema feel that day). With the Senate yet to take action on the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, much of…Read more...

What we won’t be doing in 2022? Allowing toxic work environments to dig early graves for Black women. As of late last year, the Baltimore Police Department is short four fewer Black female officers. The women include Danika Yampierre, Sgts. Jasmin Rowlett and Welai Grant and former Sgt. Tashawna Gaines. The collective…Read more...

On January 6, 2022, NBC news addressed the recurring and controversial conversation about books by Black authors being banned in schools all around the U.S. Ironically, this story resurfaced on the anniversary of the coup that transpired a year prior. The most obvious connection between the insurrection and banned…Read more...

After twelve years as the host of radio news show, ‘All Things Considered’, Audie Cornish is giving her notice. This past Tuesday, Cornish took to Twitter to announce her departure from the station.Read more...

HBCU students, faculty, and alumni are more than aware of the impact that studying while surrounded by those with cultural similarities can have on Black students as they advance their collegiate careers. With a new program aimed at increasing the number of Black, male teachers, North Carolina Central University is…Read more...

It looks like Kanye is throwing his hat back into the romance ring only months after a very public plea to God that He restore his marriage. After meeting on New Year’s Eve, (that’s a little over a week for anyone who’s counting), actress Julia Fox, 31, and Divorceye West, 44, are now an…item? Well, if a first person…Read more...

The world is mourning the loss of a true civil rights icon. For decades, Black Jewish Caribbean American legal scholar, Lani Guinier, challenged lawmakers to rethink the weight and distribution of voting rights among minorities. This past week, she lost her fight with Alzheimer’s disease, and died in an assisted…Read more...

New York’s ex-cop mayor wants to flood the city’s subway system with more cops, despite the fact that overall serious crime on the subway is at its lowest point in years.

On New Year’s Day in Canton, Ohio, a Black man was firing a gun into the air minutes after the start of 2022. Seconds later, body-camera footage shows that a police officer fired through a wooden fence, killing the man, according to the New York Times.Read more...

A Kentucky teacher, who can be seen on video pinning a student to the ground, pulling his hair and provoking the student, was fired after a probe by Jefferson County Public Schools found that the teacher “escalated the situation” and made “inappropriate comments,” according to the Insider.Read more...

The men convicted of killing 25 year-old Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 were sentenced Friday. Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael along with their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, were convicted on multiple murder counts in November after failing to convince a mostly white jury that they were performing a…Read more...

This St. Louis Couple just won’t go away. Remember the one I’m talking about? One day they’re waving guns at Black Lives Matters protesters, the next they are traveling to Kenosha, Wisconsin to support the little boy who killed two people.Read more...

Most of the attention yesterday went to President Joe Biden’s speech attacking Donald Trump for sending his goons to derail democracy, but we also learned an extremely important detail about Vice President Kamala Harris: she was inside the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters when a live bomb was found.

While many people were reflecting on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6th in a way, two far-right Republican BFFs went another way with it. Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) began what they called a Republican “response” to all the proceedings and statements that took place…Read more...

The passing of legendary actor Sidney Poitier has resonated throughout Hollywood. The Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs announced his death at the age of 94.

Despite the fact that in recent years, we’ve seen more and more top recruits opt to attend HBCUs in favor of big-name college programs, former NFL player Channing Crowder wasn’t drinking the Kool-Aid when he broached the subject in May with Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders.Read more...