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Remember Blackkklansman? The movie? Well, that happened in real life, except the main character is white and was undercover in the Ku Klux Klan for way longer.Read more...

On Wednesday, the Black Film Critics Circle announced its winners for the 2021 season.Read more...

It may be too soon to confirm, but it appears there is yet another redhead in the British royal family. On Thursday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex—also known as Harry and Meghan—kicked off the holiday weekend with a festive portrait of their young family of four, including a long-awaited look at their now…Read more...

Ex-cop and incoming NYC mayor Eric Adams is already fighting with more than half the city’s incoming council members, after they sent a letter saying they’re not feeling his plan to bring back solitary confinement at the infamous Rikers Island jail.

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It’s a Christmas miracle! Fresh off of getting booed in Dallas for saying he received the COVID-19 booster, former President Trump’s “the vaccine works” tour continues in a new interview with Candice Owens. Now, it could just be because recently, President Biden publically gave the Trump administration credit for…Read more...

Add The Wendy Williams Show to the growing list of productions affected by the current Covid-19 surge. According to People, the talk show will return from its holiday break a little later than planned.

I hadn’t seen Greg Brown Jr. since 1995, before he was sentenced to life in prison for three murders. I graduated from high school that year and left our neighborhood to go to college and become a functional adult. Greg was on a different path: he would spend the next two decades battling police, the Allegheny County…Read more...

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OK, so because I’m hella excited about this news, I’m not going to lead into this with some cutesy lede or a punny joke—I’m gonna cut right to the chase.

Researchers and archaeologists who have been analyzing and exploring the remains of the last U.S. slave ship on the coast of Alabama, aka the “Clotilda,” have discovered that most of the ship is still intact since it sank in 1860, according to the Associated Press.

Earlier this year in February, we reported that former NFL star Vincent Jackson was found dead at the Homewood Suites in Brandon, Fla. He was 38.Read more...

With the emergence of the Omicron variant leading to another surge in Covid-19 cases, and a slew of Broadway cancellations and closures, we knew it was only a matter of time before awards season was the next domino to fall.

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ABC News has added another notable name to its groundbreaking docuseries Let the World See. Nia Long (The Best Man films, Love Jones) has joined the project to voice the words of Mamie Till-Mobley.

“It is about damn time!” said Michelle Young, better known as the most recent star of ABC’s long-running reality show, The Bachelorette. Time for what? Well, it only took 18 seasons, but as of Tuesday night, Young and her now-fiancé Nayte Olukoya were revealed to be the first Black couple to ever graduate the…Read more...

The investigations into the Astroworld tragedy that occurred at Houston’s NRG Park on November 5 will now be getting an extra assist from the federal government.Read more...

The Tacoma police chief has cleared the two officers involved in the March 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man from Tacoma, Washington. Ellis’ family is “heartbroken but not surprised,” according to The Seattle Times.Read more...

Covid-19 has found a new way to prove exactly how trash it is, this time by infecting Atlanta’s next mayor and causing chaos for Pittsburgh’s first-ever Black mayor elect, who got a false positive earlier this week.

Whew thank goodness someone finally asked Iman Shumpert what he thinks of LeBron’s business decisions.

As awards season moves full steam ahead, we’re getting a very clear picture of who the real contenders are. Now, the Academy has added to the debate with the release of its Oscar shortlists.

A Black man was charged with killing a White Milwaukee lawyer in 2020 while on his bicycle. Now, Theodore Edgecomb is claiming that he acted in self-defense, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He is also using the same expert who testified for Kyle Rittenhouse, the young White man who was found not guilty…Read more...

A Georgia city task force voted to demolish a World War II-era restaurant that’s theme honored the pre-Civil War South. For decades, Aunt Fanny’s Cabin attracted regular and famous diners in Smyrna, Georgia with its southern recipes and “family-like” atmosphere until it closed in 1992.Read more...

Since the death of Breonna Taylor, there has been some progress moving search warrant reform along. Kentucky enacted a law restricting usage of “no-knock” warrants in April, and the Justice Department moved to limit them in September. The firings of two former Kentucky officers, Joshua Jaynes and Myles Cosgrove, have…Read more...

The traditionally lily-white hills of Beverly are about to get a little more colorful. Sheree Zampino, ex-wife of Hollywood megastar Will Smith (with whom she shares 29-year-old son Trey) has a signed on for a recurring role on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Zampino, 54, and Diana Jenkins, 48 (ex-wife…Read more...

The 2022 Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame has announced its inductees and this year’s list couldn’t be more iconic.Read more...

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We are now a mere three days from Christmas; have you completed (or even started) your holiday shopping yet? If not, you’d better think fast—specifically, what can you pick up or get shipped fast? (Spoiler alert: Books.) On the other hand, if you’re all set and ready to settle in for the holiday break, what better way…Read more...

Tacoma officers Armando Farinas and Masiyh Ford have been exonerated in the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who uttered “I can’t breathe” during his fatal arrest in March 2020. The Tacoma Police Department announced, according to NBC News, that the two officers will return to work after an investigation found the…Read more...

So, you’re home with your family, opened up all your gifts on Christmas Day, maybe played a couple of rounds of UNO, and getting ready to watch a full day of NBA basketball. You got Trey Young coming back to the Garden, two of the top teams in the league with the Warriors and Suns in the middle of the day, and the…Read more...

A couple of days ago, I wrote about Stacey Abrams, and upon her second try for the governorship of Georgia, she’s making a national call for voting rights reform. 19 states have already passed 34 laws this year alone to make some restrictions, 13 bills have been pre-filed for 2022, and 88 of them will carry over into…Read more...

It feels like we just wrapped up the emotional Season 4 finale of Snowfall, but that’s only because time has no meaning anymore. Now, 2022 is ready to kick off with the premiere of Season 5.

OK, I know I promised y’all a list, but did y’all really think Jay-Z was ACTUALLY going to give us a list of people who could murk him in a hypothetical Verzuz battle?Read more...

The mostly white jury in the trial for former Minnesota officer Kim Potter have not come to a verdict after nearly a week and a half of testimony and evidence. At the end of over nine hours of deliberations on Tuesday, the jury asked the court what would happen if they could not reach a consensus.Read more...

Like this Black woman in New Jersey, it looks like Black people all over the country are looking for a Black representation of Santa. In Appleton, Wisconsin, a Black couple has found it.Read more...

On Halloween night in Woodsboro, Texas, two teenagers, one white and one Hispanic, both 17-years-old, dressed in Klan outfits, harassed and tased their 16-year-old Black classmate while a White teenage girl recorded the incident on her cellphone, according to Texas Monthly.

Mrs. Tina Knowles-Lawson, undoubtedly one of Hollywood’s most iconic moms, is bringing her famous Instagram Live talk series to Facebook Watch.

Since his playing days ended back in 2008, there have been plenty of times I’ve worried about the health and wellbeing of former NBA star Steve Francis.Read more...

It can’t be easy growing up in the public eye, but for the better part of the last decade Chloe Bailey, now just Chlöe, has been doing exactly that. Since she and sister Halle first enchanted listeners with their ethereal harmonies as tweens, the duo has garnered a development deal (and mentorship) from Beyoncé,…Read more...

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A Boston suburb has decided that the best way to deal with an epidemic of racist and homophobic incidents is by sweeping it under the rug.Read more...

The queen of Christmas can place another jewel in her crown this holiday; Mariah Carey’s modern classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has returned to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It’s the single’s third time in the No. 1 spot since its 1994 release, and as Billboard explained, it sets a chart new record.Read more...

At AmericaFest, a four-day festival hosted by Turning Point USA in Phoenix, recently acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse was greeted with a hero’s welcome— complete with streamers, music, and a standing ovation from the convention crowd as if he were a wrestling champion. After he spoke on a panel, he was then asked by …Read more...

Trigger warning: this story is one of the saddest depictions of a Black man in mental health crisis dying at the hands of law enforcement in recent memory.

The life and times of legendary music producer Suge Knight will be getting the biopic treatment soon.

Old National Bank, based in Indiana, will direct more housing loan opportunities to the Black residents in order to settle a federal racial discrimination lawsuit filed back in October. The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI) accused the bank of discriminating against Black people with their mortgage…Read more...

Texas governor Greg Abbott attended George Floyd’s memorial service last year in Houston. He also stated that he was prepared to work with his family to pass the “George Floyd Act” through the Texas legislature. That has not happened at all. Instead, Abbott has passed measures to hurt cities that reduce police budgets…Read more...

A group of advocates, including a local NAACP chapter, are looking to clear the names of 110 Black World War I soldiers found guilty of the deadly Camp Logan riot in the summer of 1917. Some of the men were given life sentences and others were executed in what would go down as the largest murder trial in United…Read more...

A White man by the name of Steven Vogel was sentenced to life for the murder of Michael Williams in Grinnel, Iowa, whose Black body was found burning in a ditch one year ago according to the Des Moines Register.Read more...