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Washington, D.C. police released body camera footage from the officers who killed 27-year-old Antwan Gilmore after finding him asleep in his car last Wednesday.Read more...

On Friday, Wade Oscar Twiner, 49, and his son Lane Irvine Twiner, 23, were sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted in a hate-crime case in which the pair chased and shot at two Black teenagers riding all-terrain vehicles last September.Read more...

“Oh Happy Day! Oh Happy Day! When Drake confiiiiiirrrrmmmmed, CLB was on the way!” (Or whatever Sister Mary Clarence said.)

One of reality television’s most enduring marriages has entered a sad chapter; The Real Housewives of Atlanta veteran NeNe Leakes recently revealed that the colon cancer diagnosis her husband Gregg received in 2018 may now be terminal.Read more...

First let me issue a warning so that people who want to jump into camera shots and act a fool: Journalists are a gang. We roll together. Have you not seen how hard Fox News rides for each other? Our colors are church formal wear. Our gang call is, “Back to you” if you are an on-air journalist and “They got me fucked…Read more...

Stop making that face. Seriously, stop it.

The Citizen’s Office of Police Accountability has opened an investigation as a Black woman walking her dog along the lakefront in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago got into an altercation with a police officer at North Avenue Beach that was captured on cell phone video.

Since Cam Newton joined the New England Patriots last June, there’s been plenty to criticize. His play on the field has left much to be desired, his aversion to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine has already cost him game time and is a source of frustration within the organization, and with rookie quarterback Mac Jones…Read more...

The cuisine served at Jackson Soul Food in the historic Overton, Miami location or at Jackson Soul Food II in Opa-Locka, FL has been a community mainstay for decades. But family matriarch Shirlene Jackson Ingraham’s business has been sorely tested by the pandemic. With one of her restaurant locations shut down…Read more...

All the rumors are true: Janet Jackson is the Queen of Pop, boo! Well, that is, according to Lizzo. (And arguably much of the rest of the world.)Read more...

In what likely comes as a surprise to absolutely no one—as evidenced by the countless people who predicted this outcome—I regret to inform you that former UFC champion Tyron Woodley lost his pay-per-view match on Sunday to serial idiot Jake Paul, per CBS Sports.

The first death has been reported as Hurricane Ida moves through Louisiana on Sunday. Millions are without power, water, and fallen trees and debris already block the main roads, according to CNN.Read more...

After many, many, MANY moons—Donda, Kanye West’s 10th studio album is finally available to stream on various music platforms.Read more...

Neither the Delta variant, significant delays nor mixed reviews could keep the Candyman from dominating the box office in the opening weekend of his horrifying return. Almost 30 years after the original film traumatized a generation in 1992, its reboot, directed by Little Woods’ Nia DaCosta, grossed $22,370,00 in its…Read more...

Miami police apprehended a man after he violently attacked and hurled the n-word at Miami International Airport employees. The incident was captured on video, and according to Newsweek, it’s gone viral with over 2 million views.

It’s finally here.

Sixteen years ago on this date, Aug. 29, the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana and tore through New Orleans along with other cities and states that reside in the Gulf Coast.

Members of the Waukesha, Wis. Board of Education are in hot water after opting out of a federal program that would provide free meals for all of the district’s students regardless of their family’s financial situations.

A Black man who worked as a shift manager for a Kansas McDonald’s says his multiple requests to avoid working the same shift as a white co-worker known for using racial slurs were repeatedly denied by the restaurant.Read more...

The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Friday that the civil rights icon has been transferred to a rehabilitation facility and his wife, Jacqueline, was moved to the intensive care unit as they continue treatment for COVID-19.

Race is a funny thing.

This weekend, HBCUs will be representing during NASCAR’s regular-season finale. (I know, I can’t believe I typed that myself.)Read more...

Dame Lillard is stuck between a rock and a mediocre team.Read more...

On Thursday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alberto Milian rejected a “Stand Your Ground” defense claim made by Mark Bartlett, a white man who is accused of brandishing a loaded gun at Black teens and calling them racial slurs.Read more...

Republicans in the Texas House advanced restrictive voting legislation that would impact primarily Democratic voters, particularly those with disabilities and voters of color.Read more...

Ladies and gentlemen!

Nowadays, it seems anyone can go viral and become an overnight sensation, and with the rapid rise of social media, more and more people are putting their talents out there in a way we couldn’t have conceived of a decade or two years ago.Read more...

On Saturday, protestors will gather nationwide to mark the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington during the March On for Voting Rights, a gathering in which organizers will demand that Congress pass both the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act, according to USA Today. The two bills have…Read more...

Kanye, you’ve officially fucked up.Read more...

There is no more quintessentially 2021 story—nothing as on-the-nose encapsulating of this wretched damn year—than the inane melodrama of who will replace Alex Trebek as Jeopardy! host.Read more...

Last time I checked, the job of the vice president of the United States was to do all the goofy press events that the president didn’t have time to do. Need an elected official to come to your school for career day? Send the VP. Need someone to come to your auto plant to promote the passing of an auto factory work…Read more...

Plant-based diets are more popular in Black communities than you might think. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 8 percent of Black Americans consider themselves strict vegans or vegetarians, compared to just 3 percent of the general population. A recent Gallup poll found that nearly a third of people of color…Read more...

Back in the day, before anyone really knew anything about Wakanda and the Black Panther movie franchise, one of the hairstylists on set reached out to Natalie Taylor, founder of the L.A.-based Royal House of Wraps. What did the newly-shorn actresses, including Lupita Nyong’o, need? Head wraps ASAP.Read more...

“Conscious uncoupling” just got Kimye’d. The artist formerly known as Kanye West and his soon-to-be ex-wife, Kim Kardashian West (who will reportedly retain the surname even as Kanye’s legally filed to simply be known as “Ye”), gave fans at Chicago’s Soldier Field a treat on Thursday night as they paid tribute to…Read more...

A growing number of historically Black colleges and universities have been using federal funding to cancel their students’ debt and clear withstanding balances from the past school year. Black students disproportionately owe more in student loans and HBCUs are setting a precedent in evening out the playing field,…Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium, a decision that puts millions of Americans at risk of losing a roof over their heads. Activists and lawmakers, led by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), had urged President Biden to extend the moratorium, even if the legalities of such a move were…Read more...

Editorial note: This article includes descriptions of grooming, exploitation and sexual abuse.Read more...

Lt. Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed rioter and Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, told Lester Holt during an NBC News exclusive interview that he has been in hiding since that day because of death threats, but feels confident that he did his job honorably.

In footage obtained and published by the Associated Press on Wednesday, Louisiana State Police trooper Jacob Brown was caught on body camera footage beating Black motorist Aaron Larry Bowman with a flashlight during a traffic stop in May 2019.Read more...

What is “Mike Richards’ Redemption Tour”?Read more...

Gulia Dale, a Black army veteran, was killed by Newton police officers outside his New Jersey home on July 4th after his wife made a 911 call about Dale’s mental state and that he had a gun. But Dale’s family and local civil rights organizations are calling out the officers’ response that night and now, the New Jersey…Read more...

I typically don’t have much to say about people who eat Sausage Egg McMuffins with extra salt and a glass of milk, but I’ll make a special exception for Dallas Cowboys dictator Jerry Jones.Read more...

This year’s U.S. Open just lost another big name.Read more...

On Thursday, U.S. Capitol Police officers filed a lawsuit against Trump, his allies and members of far-right extremist groups over the January 6 capitol insurrection. The group of officers accused Trump of conspiring with his supporters to disrupt the certification of the presidential election results.Read more...

The creator of the online platform and marketplace Black Owned Everything now has a Black Owned Emmy! Zerina Akers, who has long been identified as the expert curatorial eye behind Beyoncé’s wardrobe (in addition to stints styling Ava DuVernay, Yara Shahidi, and Niecy Nash, among others) is now getting well-deserved…Read more...

On Wednesday, Black Panther star Letitia Wright was briefly hospitalized after suffering minor injuries while filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.Read more...

In his latest attempt to “do the right thing,” Spike Lee is headed back to the cutting room floor to re-edit the final episode of his newly released four-part HBO docuseries, NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½.Read more...

How young is too young to learn how to be antiracist—and can you learn antiracism without a comprehensive understanding of what racism is? This is arguably the real question undergirding the otherwise inane (and wholly fabricated) fear of critical race theory. The academic field of study has never (ever)…Read more...

A squad of mostly minority cheerleaders from a California high school were called racial slurs and were subjected to monkey noises from the opposing team’s crowd during a football game Friday.Read more...

After Maria Taylor’s much-publicized departure from ESPN in July, many of us were livid and assumed that veteran broadcaster Rachel Nichols had unjustly “won” the silent war between them, which was uncovered by the New York Times. But on Wednesday came the news that there would be no winners, as the sports…Read more...