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Since the Supreme Court elected to overrule Roe v. Wade, there has been a lot of anger directed towards the Biden administration and its response. The former director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement and top ally of President Biden, Cedric Richmond, says Democratic attacks and criticisms of the Biden…Read more...

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From Bayard Rustin to Audre Lorde to Billy Porter, history is filled with pioneering Black queer groundbreakers. Countless figures started movements and created art that let generations know they weren’t alone. Of course, for every name we all know, there are several equally familiar people who kept their private…Read more...

Nate Looney is a proud Black Jew. But since converting to the faith over a decade ago, he has found that not everyone is welcoming him with open arms. He said he was once told to go to the kitchen when he showed up to a synagogue dressed for Shabbat services. “The last thing you want to happen when you go to a…Read more...

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Today is July 5th, otherwise known as the day after the holiday after one of the most Blackity-black events in this country, a.k.a. the 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture.

The Congressional hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection aren’t the only place that Donald Trump’s cronies are being dragged in to testify about the ex-president’s failed attempt to undo the results of the 2020 election.

I was a teenager before the Internet was a thing, so the inspiration for my hairstyles came from Hype Hair and Black Hair magazine, not Pinterest. Those popular hair magazines that inspired so many young Black girls in the 90s inspired Anita Grant’s new children’s book, Hello Hair.

There are certain movies and TV series that never lose their impact. No matter how much time has passed, they spark an emotional reaction every single time. The truly special ones ignite a new reaction with each viewing. No show embodies this better than HBO’s classic drama The Wire.

Henderson and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police are ponying up $90,000 for their outrageous slip up of mistaking the identity of a Black man...for a white man. Shane Lee Brown (Black) was arrested for Shane Neal Brown’s felony warrant back in January of 2020. Per the body camera footage, the officers seemed unsure about…Read more...

A ruling from the Mississippi Supreme Court found that additional DNA testing will not be able to be presented in a 30-year-old murder case of two college students, the Associated Press reports. In 1994, Willie Jerome Manning was convicted of two counts of capital murder in the December 1992 killings of Mississippi…Read more...

Demariyus Thomas, the NFL wide receiver who died suddenly last month at his Atlanta-area home, had the debilitating brain disease known as CTE when he passed.Read more...

After the Proud Boys were kicked off Twitter in 2018, they retreated to other discreet messaging platforms such as Telegram. However, the extremist group could make a Twitter comeback if Tesla founder Elon Musk follows through with purchasing the platform. Musk would have to drop $44 billion to own Twitter and he just…Read more...

Congratulations are in order for rapper Big Sean and his girlfriend, singer-songwriter Jhené Aiko, as the two are reportedly expecting their first child together.Read more...

The God of Thunder and his closest friends return in Marvel Studios’ latest film Thor: Love and Thunder, hitting theaters July 8. Chris Hemsworth’s hero is joined by Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Taika Waititi—who once again writes and directs—as Korg, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Florida is home to things such as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, a proposed 15-week abortion ban, the Stop Woke Act, and gerrymandered voting maps. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made a 4th of July ad appealing directly to Floridians to either fight for freedoms in their state or come to California, The Guardian reports.Read more...

Fans and loyal followers of Wendy Williams and her hella popular eponymous daytime talk show will be sad to hear that the online presence for the show is now non-existent.Read more...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was scheduled to meet with law enforcement this morning after an organized group of as many as 100 masked white supremacists marched through the city’s downtown on Saturday, assaulting a Black man along the way.

With absolutely no apologies to Kylie Jenner, Rihanna is actually the country’s youngest woman to become a self-made billionaire.

Conversations about race are never easy. But last week’s murder of Jayland Walker and the racially-motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket in May, are just a few examples of why they are absolutely necessary right now. It was the 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers that…Read more...

A collection of proposals by Congress and the New York state senate are looking to end electric shock as a means of treatment on people with disabilities, The New York Daily News reports. There are two different ways in which the state, the house, and Senate are looking to tackle this issue.Read more...

As Brittney Griner’s Russian trial begins, the WNBA All-Star is using the only outlet she has to communicate with President Biden. She wrote a letter, which was passed on to the White House through the communications company that represents Griner’s family.

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Moments before standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial at the 1963 March on Washington, John Lewis frantically re-worked his remarks in response to organizers’ fears that his words were too incendiary. Among the many changes Lewis made, he replaced the line,

I’ve got bad news for all my Swift fans out there, and I’m not talking Taylor. The Nancy Drew spinoff, Tom Swift, has been canceled after only five episodes on the CW network. The series which just launched on May 31 featured a nearly all Black cast, including Tian Richards who plays the show’s lead. His character Tom…Read more...

After the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker at the hands of Akron, Ohio police, the city has decided to cancel its annual Fourth of July celebration. On Monday, a hail of nearly 90 bullets fell upon Walker, a Black Doordash driver, after what started out as a traffic stop, and ultimately, resulted in the end of his…Read more...

A proposed amendment in California’s constitution that would outlaw involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime failed to pass the state senate. As the Associated Press notes, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration argued that paying prisoners a $15-per-hour minimum wage would cost taxpayers billions.…Read more...

You know the tune. They play it at every millennial pain and sip, the r&b cover concerts, and sometimes at the club before closing when the DJ cuts the vocals, expecting you to know every word, which you do. Tevin Campbell’s classic Can We Talk is the early nineties hit we all know and love, but did you know that it…Read more...

Cancer season has Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent cutting up on the internet in the worst of ways, but then again that’s any day. Following the recent allegations of sexual misconduct against producer, Randall Emmett, 50 has entered the chat, offering opinions that no one has asked for. On Friday morning, the rapper…Read more...

Just a week following the overturn of the landmark ruling of Roe v. Wade, America has become somewhat of a legislative free for all when it comes to women’s reproductive rights. With individual states now having the authority to dictate whether or not to ban abortion, many are scrambling to find ways to ensure…Read more...

The Supreme Court closed out this session with a metaphorical bang, upending fifty years of court precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade, the case establishing the constitutional right to an abortion.Read more...

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Who isn’t on TikTok nowadays? Parents, children, writers, comedians, athletes and singers. Everyone is using the social media platform, most notably some of the biggest celebrities in the world. If you can make it on TikTok, you can make it anywhere.Read more...

The country is getting ready to celebrate the Fourth of July this weekend. For some, it’s a time to remember the birth of our nation. But let’s face it, for Black folks, it’s the perfect excuse to get together with family and friends and eat, drink and laugh at your Uncle Tony when he tries to dance after having a few…Read more...

Religious leaders and local advocates in Savannah, Ga. are calling for the police chief to resign following the fatal shooting of a Black man by police, per The Associated Press. The killing of Saudi Arai Lee, 31, is undergoing a federal investigation but the people are demanding a probe into the other …Read more...

The Bellows Falls Union High School board unanimously voted on a new policy that restricts the school from flying flags other than the US and Vermont state flags, according to the Brattleboro Reformer. Those flags include the Black Lives Matter flag BFUHS and other Vermont schools have flown in support of their Black…Read more...

Wednesday, 20-year-old Azsia Johnson was shot at point-blank range while she was pushing her 3-month-old baby in a stroller on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Her mother, Lisa Desort, alleges the city failed to protect her daughter and prevent the killing because Azsia had previously reported being abused and…Read more...

The cause of death of a Baltimore Ravens linebacker has been determined.Read more...

The Princess and the Frog fans rejoice! Tiana is finally getting her own theme park ride.Read more...

It’s rare that anything Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, says is received with vitriol by Black folks or the political left. She’s been a juggernaut since narrowly losing to current Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in 2018, raising millions for Democratic candidates, erecting a massive campaign to fight…Read more...

Wake up Mr. West! You’re getting sued again!Read more...

If you thought Simone Biles was done making history and collecting medals…not so fast.

Republican-led states are continuing to remake Black history into a clean-cut retelling with anti-CRT laws. According to the Texas Tribute, a group of Texas educators is looking to take this further with a proposal for slavery to be taught as ‘involuntary relocation.’ The proposal was sent to the Texas State Board of…Read more...

Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic details of domestic violence.Read more...

A collection of former and current Black Tesla employees have come together to file a lawsuit alleging they were subjected to various forms of racial abuse and harassment while working primarily in Tesla’s Fremont, California factory. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that in the lawsuit filed at California state…Read more...

Many Americans have grown up with the classic “dun dun” sound echoing from their television screens as scenes from the show Law and Order Special Victims Unit plays in the background at any given gym or waiting room.Read more...

Until yesterday, it was hard to imagine how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas could have made the Court’s term any worse. Thomas is considered the ideological godfather of an emboldened, far-right majority on the Court that in the past week alone weakened Miranda rights for people detained by cops, removed the…Read more...

The Fourth of July weekend is upon us. And as you’re putting the finishing touches on your cookout menu, you can’t forget to make sure your playlist is on point. The right music can make or break your BBQ, and can mean the difference between a festival worthy of fireworks and one that’s over before the sun goes down.Read more...

Brittney Griner has been wrongfully detained in Russia for 135 days and now the WNBA star is finally having her day in court. On Friday, Griner arrived at Khimki City Court outside Moscow, handcuffed and wearing a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt.Read more...

Usher is such an amazing entertainer and performer, it’s easy to forget that the R&B superstar is a great singer. Well, he used his appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series to remind everyone exactly who he is. To wrap up Black Music Month, Usher and his band delivered a smooth, old school R&B set of six of his…Read more...