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Hating from outside the club when you can’t get in is a very real thing. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters engaged in peak hater behavior during a Friday interview with Canadian publication the Globe and Mail. The 78-year-old musician said that it “seemed odd” The Weeknd’s concert received more media attention from Toronto…Read more...

Harry and Meghan are in New York City today as the former prince prepares to speak to the UN General Assembly in commemoration of Nelson Mandela International Day. According to South Africa’s UN mission, Harry will focus his speech on “the memories and legacy of Mandela and what has been learned from his struggle and…Read more...

Just days after Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson snagged those historic nominations for this year’s Emmy Awards, both she and the network behind the popular series found themselves at the center of a new lawsuit.Read more...

Bad news for Kanye West fans attending Rolling Out Loud Miami: the “Power” rapper has dropped out of his Friday, July 22 headlining set. As such, festival organizers have replaced him with Kid Cudi.Read more...

While many believe themselves to be familiar with the terms intersectionality and Critical Race Theory, as well as the #SayHerName and Black Girls Matter campaigns, few people are aware that they are each a byproduct of the same think tank turned non-profit, the African American Policy Forum. Officially founded in…Read more...

A young Houston DJ on her way to stardom has tragically passed away at the age of 23. Reports claim that DJ D Baby, born Darian Lewis, fell from the 13th floor balcony of her girlfriend’s apartment, onto the 9th floor pool deck of the Camden Downtown apartments on July 4th. She was immediately transported to a Houston…Read more...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has reached a settlement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and creator of the landmark 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones. In April of 2021, both parties made headlines after Hannah-Jones was denied a tenured position, instead being named the Knight Chair in Race and…Read more...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of the Sun Prairie School District regarding a lawsuit filed by two Black parents. Their children’s middle school, located in Wisconsin, handed out an assignment that asked students how they would punish a slave in ancient Mesopotamia and they believed it was harmful and…Read more...

R. Kelly’s rise was meteoric, but his fall was disgraceful. At one time, Kelly was one of the most successful and popular singers and songwriters in R&B. But, he became one of the most well-known examples of a celebrity using his power to take advantage of others and as a result, he was convicted of nine counts of…Read more...

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Congratulations are in order for MSNBC host Symone Sanders. After a year-long engagement, Sanders said “I Do” to Shawn Townsend in a beautiful surprise ceremony at the historic Larz Anderson House on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.

The most decorated athlete in track and field history will soon be retiring after a remarkable career. Allyson Felix, 36, just ran her last competitive lap on Friday evening at Hayward Field, where she took home the bronze medal for the U.S. running the second leg on a mixed 4×400-meter relay on the first night of the…Read more...

Film stars may come and go, but presently, the talented, enigmatic, handsome, Black Hollywood heartthrob that is Daniel Kaluuya is having his moment. The British actor featured in Jordan Peele’s upcoming thriller, Nope has only been known to American fans for less than ten years, and has already developed a reputation…Read more...

It’s a family affair for Dwayne The Rock Johnson that’s been decades in the making. According to Sports Illustrated, the pro wrestler turned Hollywood star has been connected by DNA testing to five other half siblings that never knew about each other, their father, or their connection to The Rock.Read more...

The latest Supreme Court ruling guarantee’s the Second Amendment right of people to carry their firearms in public space for “self-defense,” according to the Los Angeles Times. As we know, these new gun laws were advocated for because white people grew concerned about their gun rights. You know who’s even more…Read more...

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The Kardashian family has been known to snatch up many of the Black bachelors of America, but they rarely have happily ever afters. Here are some of the Black men the Kardashian-Jenner family has dated.Read more...

Months after officially joining TikTok, Beyoncé has finally posted her first-ever video and it’s filled with nothing but fan love and appreciation for her recently released single, “Break My Soul.”Read more...

1957's Brown v. Brown of Education decision may have made state laws intentionally separating students of different races by school unconstitutional, but gentrification and other economic factors have kept segregation going. As NPR reports, while the entirety of America’s student makeup is more diverse than ever, …Read more...

Even before the 2020 Presidential election began, former President Donald Trump was sowing the seeds of discord. He claimed the election was always rigged against him, and somehow mail-in ballot counts were off. While the former President still echoes this sentiment today with no discernible proof, a group of former…Read more...

Billy Porter may have been the recipient of this year’s Achievement Award at the 2022 Outfest, but it was the highest court in the land and some republicans that was called out on Thursday night.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is showing the Trump family a little empathy in the wake of yesterday’s death of family matriarch Ivana Trump.Read more...

The killing of 25-year-old Jayland Walker during a traffic stop in Akron, Ohio, is another entry in the ongoing discussion of police brutality against Black Americans. While facts are still being gathered, the NAACP is calling on the Department of Justice and attorney general Merrick Garland to start their own federal…Read more...

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The initial reports on the killing of Jayland Walker, a Black man shot by Akron police officers, alleged he was under the fire of at least 90 bullets. The medical examiner’s office confirmed Friday Walker was hit with 46 of those shots, according to NBC News. The manner of his death was ruled a homicide.

Uber says reports of sexual assault have decreased among app users. But while they pat themselves on the back, the ride-sharing company faces suits from over 500 women around the country who say their lives were endangered when they used the service, and the company didn’t do enough to protect them. Court documents…Read more...

Contrary to what many folks purported online, Drake is not in Swedish custody. In fact, the Honestly, Nevermind rapper was never arrested or sent to Swedish jail despite online rumors saying otherwise on Thursday night.Read more...

Believe it or not, Kanye West is being sued… again.Read more...

The mother of a 7-year-old girl is suing her elementary school after they forced her to make a public apology after writing “any life” on a Black Lives Matter drawing, according to the Daily Mail. The incident itself is a year old but another parent had just told her what happened recently.

Cobb Country, Georgia, which has the second largest school district in the state, voted for a policy that will allow non-police officers to carry guns in the classroom, the Associated Press reports. However, the new rule will not allow teachers to carry firearms. This is a departure from some states like Ohio that cut…Read more...

A former New Castle County police corporal has been sentenced to one year of probation after repeatedly pulling on a 16-year-old girl’s hair and dragging her up a hallway by her handcuffs on her stomach, according to the Delaware News Journal. Michael Carnevale pleaded guilty and also agreed to never seek employment…Read more...

James Whitfield made news when he agreed to resign from his position as the first African American principal of Colleyville High School in Texas after being accused of teaching Critical Race Theory. And we all cried foul, knowing that “agreed to resign” is just a nice way of saying he was fired for being “too woke.”…Read more...

Muhammad A. Aziz, one of the men exonerated for the murder of civil rights activist Malcolm X last year, is suing the city of New York and former law enforcement officials involved in the investigation decades ago for $40 million, according to the New York Times.Read more...

Black-ish star Anthony Anderson is feeling some type of way at the fact that his popular show got snubbed as it relates to this year’s Emmy nominees.Read more...

Austin Davis, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor, is being questioned about inappropriate and misogynistic tweets he posted more than a decade ago as an intern.Read more...

According to a Reuters journalist who is covering the trial, the defense team for U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner explained to a Russian court on Friday the athlete was prescribed medical cannabis to help with a chronic injury. She pled guilty to drugs charges after she was detained at a Moscow airport in…Read more...

The woman whose accusations of harassment led to one of the country’s most notorious lynchings wrote a memoir about the incident that was never published.Read more...

You can chose to prosper. Yes, you heard us right. Success is not accidental, but something that we intentionally set out to do, that’s according to Bola Sokunbi.

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On the debut episode of Angie Martinez’s new Angie Martinez: IRL Podcast, Without Remorse star Lauren London opens up about the lessons she’s learned about death after Nipsey Hussle’s passing, the pure love the two of them shared and her desire to move out of Los Angeles.Read more...

An Alaskan police officer is under investigation after being found in a photo with a woman flashing a “White Privilege” card, according to The Associated Press. The picture was taken during a traffic stop when the MAGA-hat-wearing woman was pulled over. She handed the officers the card instead of her license and …Read more...

The House passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to push government officials to report instances of white supremacy among the military and law enforcement ranks, The Hill reports. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.)’s sponsored measure made it through with a 218-208 party-line vote that saw every…Read more...

It’s up in Washington D.C.! The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), one of the most incredible and Blackest museums I’ve ever, is doing one thing this summer to add to its blackness. They are throwing a Hip-Hop block party this summer, according to the Smithsonian.Read more...

Texas Representative Ronny Jackson says former President Barack Obama gave him the business after the White House physician-turned-politician had some not-so-nice things to say about President Joe Biden’s cognitive health.

As an added measure to combat gun violence that continues to plague the country, the House passed the Active Shooter Alert Act to create a communication network to notify the public if an active shooter is in their neighborhood, NBC news reports. This comes off the heels of representatives passing the ‘Protecting Our…Read more...

Former “Dancing with the Stars” winner Alfonso Ribeiro is going back to the show but in a different capacity.Read more...

Continuing what a tragic year for former football athletes, yet another NFL alumnus has died.Read more...

The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a murder conviction of a Portland man after finding out the prosecutors dismissed two Black jurors from the jury pool because of their race, according to OregonLive. The district attorney’s decision to strike both jurors was for “race-neutral” reasons.

Lawyers for Marilyn Mosby, the progressive Baltimore prosecutor who faces several legal battles of her own, are fighting to get federal perjury charges against her dropped.Read more...

Get Out and Judas and the Black Messiah star Daniel Kaluuya will, unfortunately, not be reprising his role as W’Kabi in the upcoming Black Panther sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.Read more...