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It is now day four of the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis, and there doesn’t seem to be an immediate end in sight. While 600 Mississippi national guardsmen are set to be deployed today to help with water distribution, there is no timetable on when the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant water pumps will be fixed. …Read more...

Yesterday, Stacey Dash made waves on social media when she confessed that she was unaware rapper DMX had died. The Clueless actress took to TikTok and Instagram to share her devastation.Read more...

He’s done it again. Mr. Morale continues to impress rap fans with his lyrics, rhyme style and the records he keeps on breaking.

It’s been three months since Peyton Gendron shot and killed 10 Black people in a racially motivated attack at a Buffalo supermarket. Investigators found that Gendron wanted to inspire others to follow his footsteps. The son of victim Celestine Chaney, 65, told ABC News he worries the death penalty will make Gendron…Read more...

It looks like Ye’s got big plans for his fashion line. After we reported yesterday that the rapper was too through with GAP for having a meeting about his brand’s upcoming campaign with Balenciaga without him, it now looks like West is looking to cut out the middleman.

Calls for accountability have grown as a video is making the rounds of what appears to be an NYPD officer punching a 19-year woman and knocking her to the ground while making an arrest outside a building in Harlem in New York. CBS News notes officers were attempting to apprehend 22-year-old Elvin James, who was wanted…Read more...

Throughout the first two rounds of the US Open, Coco Gauff has been very impressive. She backed up her dominant first round win with a record-breaking performance in the second.

Idris Elba is weighing in on the discourse and concern some folks have about Black British actors taking away roles from Black American actors.

During Serena Williams’ first round match on Monday, the energy inside Arthur Ashe Stadium was electric. She played her best tennis in years and won a decisive 6-3, 6-3 victory.

On Wednesday, Diddy announced that the 2022 REVOLT Summit is back in action.

I have to start this off by saying I went to college in an age before email (yes, we had color television, thank you). Having a cell phone was a luxury, which meant you actually had to be in your dorm room to get a phone call. So trust me, young people, when I say you can live without social media. But as a mother of…Read more...

Here we go again; another music fan violating the space of artists while they’re performing at a live show.Read more...

On Monday night, a slew of celebrities looked on as Serena Williams completed her first-round U.S. Open match — and possibly final pro tournament. Stars spotted included Queen Latifah, Coco Gauff, Offset, Bella Hadid, Bill Clinton and Anna Wintour. Though it wouldn’t be a stretch for Beyoncé to be in attendance, she…Read more...

When the official portraits for Barack and Michelle Obama were revealed in 2018, they caused quite a stir. They changed the way the world saw presidential portraits and forced the art world to acknowledge something new. The National Portrait Gallery had record attendance numbers and the Obamas’ impact was once again…Read more...

Residents of a small town in New Jersey awoke one day to find that all of the trees in their town’s square had been leveled by the city government. So what provoked this sudden aggression against the willowy branches lining the city center?Read more...

While the popular radio show The Breakfast Club may end up looking like The Breakfast Duo—thanks to the news of Angela Yee’s impending departure—cohost Charlamagne Tha God is confident that it won’t stay that way for too long.Read more...

PopCom founder Dawn Dickson is a serial entrepreneur who has redefined what it means to be a successful Black woman in the tech space. Not only is she the first female founder to raise over $1 million through crowdfunding under the JOBS Act, but Dickson has gone onto raise monumental amounts of capital through those…Read more...

Hip-hop fans, rejoice! Dr. Dre is back in the studio working with the likes of Diddy to produce an upcoming album for Snoop Dogg.Read more...

A new set of body camera videos have been released to various news outlets showing the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Walker was shot 46 times by Akron police, and the new videos show the officers trying to provide aid to Walker but also turning their…Read more...

I think we can all agree here that one of the most beautiful things about people of color is our melanin-rich skin. But when excessive amounts of melanin form in certain areas of your skin, it can lead to hyperpigmentation, a condition in which an area of the skin looks darker than the skin around it. According to the …Read more...

He might be down currently in the most recent Arizona Senate race poll against his Democratic opponent Mark Kelly. Still, Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters has a lot of thoughts about the Federal Reserve’s recent uptick in diversifying its workforce.Read more...

Embattled track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson is on the road to a comeback, and the first step is getting a big win to remind everyone how good she is.

Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell blasted President Joe Biden for a story he told in his latest speech about visiting a predominantly-Black, high-crime side of Pennsylvania. The point of the story was to emphasize his support for funding police, however, Terrell criticized Biden’s comments as being racist and then…Read more...

Another day and another Black person gets shot dead while in their home while a warrant is being served. The African-American community in Ohio is still mourning the killing of Jaylon Walker, and yet another incident happens to get angry about.Read more...

Ever since DaBaby made homophobic comments at Rolling Loud Miami in 2021, his popularity has taken a noticeable hit.Read more...

A wild but predictable thing happened last weekend: after the Buffalo Bills cut rookie punter Matt Araiza, who might be in steep legal trouble over allegations of a gang rape he allegedly participated in with his college teammates, fans of Deshaun Watson nutted up. Total silence. Not a peep.

You can call him a visionary or just plain weird, but there’s no doubt that Kanye West pushes the envelope with fashion. His collabs with adidas and GAP have been wildly successful. But if the folks at GAP should have learned anything from adidas, it should have been, never, and I mean never, ever leave Ye out of a…Read more...

The water crisis in Jackson, Miss., is disrupting even the city’s HBCU football team, as NFL Hall of Famer turned head coach at Jackson State University Deion Sanders has taken his team off-campus, searching for hotels with running water in which the student-athletes can prepare for its upcoming season-opening game on…Read more...

At the West Point Barlett Hall Science Center sits a panel of bronze plaques, one of them displaying the image of a figure in a hood with “Ku Klux Klan” written underneath. According to The New York Times, the commission responsible for requesting that it be taken down decided not to because the plaque fell “out of its…Read more...

It seems surreal that New York City’s Time Square will actually allow people in the area to actively carry firearms, but the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a 100-year-old concealed carry law has made this possible. In response, New York Governor Kathy Hochul in July signed a law limiting where firearms can…Read more...

In the second episode of Meghan Markle’s new podcast Archetypes, “The Duality of the Diva,” she and featured guest Mariah Carey discuss the complexities and negative connotations associated with having that label. But it was the conversation about both of their mixed race or biracial identities that got most of the…Read more...

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Yesterday would have been Michael Jackson’s 64th birthday. Happy birthday genius. Last wee, however old ass Rolling Stone claimed Harry Styles carried the icon’s title of the King of Pop. Harry Styles, we love you, but you’re nowhere close to being the King, not for now. Here’s whyRead more...

Going into the US Open, no one was expecting a huge run from Venus Williams or Naomi Osaka. Both are two-time champions and fan favorites, but neither has played their best tennis lately. Unfortunately, their singles tournaments are now over, as both were eliminated in the first round.

Nicole Linton, the ICU nurse responsible for a car crash that killed six people in in Los Angeles earlier this month, apparently suffered a ‘frightening’ mental collapse in the days leading up to the tragedy.Read more...

If it seems like you’ve been spending more at the grocery store these days, you’re probably right—and you’re not alone. Factors like severe weather and the war in Ukraine have led to all of us dropping more cash than we’re used to on our favorite foods. As CNN reported, food prices were more than 9 percent higher in…Read more...

There’s no director whose films I love theorizing plot motifs and messages more than Jordan Peele. I mean, the man has had me looking not once, not twice, but thrice at the sky since his third film, Nope, released in theaters last month. And if you’re anything like me and enjoy dissecting and reading post-viewing…Read more...

There are measures to be taken (and that should’ve already been taken) to keep the monkeypox virus (MPV) from becoming another hyper-stigmatized situation like HIV/AIDS. However, given the response to HIV and even coronavirus, it seems the government and healthcare system learn slowly (I mean…slowly) from their past…Read more...

LeBron James is making another move into football, but not the kind American sports fans are rabid over, and definitely not as a player.Read more...

John Singleton is one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. So many successful directors and showrunners cite his movies as the reason they got into the business. His death in 2019 shocked the industry and left a hole in Black culture. Now, one of the country’s most prestigious film schools is…Read more...

In the midst of conversations about whether or not R&B music is a dying genre (looking at you, Diddy), Live Nation and Femme Forward are dedicated to keeping its heartbeat pumping thanks to a newly-announced Serenade concert series.Read more...

There continues to be a lot of discussion over the use of rap lyrics in criminal cases. California has passed a measure to limit a prosecution’s ability to use lyrics as evidence. Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams also spoke out about her concerns about the tactics.Read more...

It may be the longest-running debate in the history of Hip-Hop. Fans of the genre have been arguing about it since the beginning of time. Tupac vs. Biggie, who are you taking?Read more...

At a QT station in North Druid Hills, Atlanta, a white man was caught on video stealing a Black woman’s prepaid gas and calling her a Black b*tch as he drove off, according to REVOLT. After the video went viral on social media, the internet did what it does best and tracked down the company the man worked for.

We recently told you that if you’re looking for a field with plenty of new job opportunities, tech is where it’s at. But before you go out and sign up for a whole new crop of student loans, there’s something you should know. When it comes to jobs in tech, experience is everything. Many jobs in the industry value…Read more...

A Louisville correction officer was recently fired after a video showed him making jokes about the killing of Breonna Taylor, the New York Times notes. Turhan Knight had been an officer with the Louisville Metro Corrections officer since 2018 and made the video as the Kentucky State Fair as a parody for recruiting for…Read more...

I watch a lot of Food Network, so trust me when I say they have a problem when it comes to showcasing Black voices in the culinary industry. In fact, I can literally list all the Black chefs on the network on one hand. This is why I was so excited when it was announced that Tabitha Brown would have a new competition…Read more...

Where has John Wall been the last two years?Read more...

Right now, the water supply in Jackson, Mississippi, is so inadequate that its 180,000 residents (82% of which are Black) cannot drink or brush their teeth with it. The city had already been on a boil notice since late July, but recent flooding from excessive rainfall and the Pearl River flooding has worsened the…Read more...