Considering all we know about COVID-19, it’s incredibly obvious that the conditions in American prisons aren’t exactly the best for mitigating the spread of the virus. To address this clear problem, New Jersey has released over 2,200 incarcerated people under a recently passed law.Read more...

A Hennepin County Judge ruled Wednesday that the former Minneapolis police officers charged with killing George Floyd will stand trial together in Minneapolis, rejecting two requests made by their defense attorneys.Read more...

It’s been a damn week, y’all. You know it; I know it, and even niggas in Japan know it. For real, my best friend lives in Japan, and that nigga let me know he knew. Something you may not know, though, is that after Tuesday’s election the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is now composed entirely of women.Read more...

White conservatives love Martin Luther King Jr.Read more...

Black girls are so much more than magical; they are forward-thinking, powerful, and precious. The decade-old platform known as the Uniquely You Summit (UYS) has long recognized this. “For the last 10 years, UYS has unapologetically centered Black girls,” reads a release provided to The Glow Up. “Doing the work…Read more...

Dearest all white people,Read more...

After weeks of release pushback followed by a timid domestic theatrical release, it looks like most of us will finally get to see Tenet and discuss how much we don’t get it. Then, watch 50-11 more times and try to dissect it, though we still won’t fully get it.Read more...

We may not know yet whether Kamala Harris will become the first Black (and Asian) woman elected vice president of the United States, but we do know for sure that the nurse and Ferguson activist turned progressive Democratic candidate Cori Bush is officially the first Black woman elected to Congress in the state of…Read more...

Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes...how do you measure, measure an election year?! That’s how long it seems to be taking to get the swing state results for the 2020 presidential election, by the way.Read more...

After the Senate shoved judge, now justice, Amy Coney Barrett down America’s throat with that sham-ass Supreme Court confirmation hearing during an election, I wanted a Joe Biden presidency that would come in burning shit down. I wanted a president who would come in dictating shit from the job. I basically wanted…Read more...

I was really hoping that I would be done writing about election mail on Election Day, but as you can see, I don’t always get what I want. The United States Postal Service keeps on generating controversy, mainly due to early data that shows the USPS may have not delivered up to 300,000 mail-in ballots.Read more...

On Thursday afternoon, the future of the Senate still remained hazy thanks to two tight races in Georgia. Going into Election Day, Democrats needed to pick up four seats in order to win control of the Senate, though, in the event of a Joe Biden presidency, three seats would suffice.Read more...

On Wednesday, Philadelphia police released body camera footage that shows what happened in the moments leading up to the Oct. 26 shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr.Read more...

On Monday, Ericka Weems, sister of Cleveland Cavaliers director of scouting Brandon Weems, was found shot dead in her home in Akron, Ohio. In response to the news, LeBron James took to Twitter on Wednesday to demand justice as police continue their investigation into Ericka’s murder.Read more...

Georgia voters showed prosecutor Jackie Johnson the door this week in a clear repudiation of her job investigating the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery earlier this year. Johnson was the first district attorney to investigate the case, in which Arbery, an unarmed Black man, was chased down and killed by two white men…Read more...

In an election cycle and year that is sure to go down as the most tumultuous we’ve ever experienced, Asante Blackk is making sure he stands on the right side of said history.

In the late hours of election night, three people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in Washington, D.C., after being stabbed by three assailants who haven’t been identified, are still at large and are Black, according to police. D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department initially responded to the attack by giving off …Read more...

It’s Thursday. The presidential election was Tuesday. Here is what we know: Nothing and everything.

“Did you see us?” called a mysterious and haunting chorus behind me while I was walking down the street. I was puzzled because the street was just empty, so I assumed perhaps I was either daydreaming or just misheard an arbitrarily articulate dray of squirrels.

We’re not even a month removed from the Los Angeles Lakers winning their 17th championship, but it looks like that won’t stop the NBA from carrying on its tradition of treating us to games on Christmas Day.Read more...

Ice Cube is still saying things.Read more...

Professor and author Marc Lamont Hill was never one to mince his words.Read more...

On Tuesday, Alabama voters showed that many of them are genuinely interested in living in the 21st century by approving an amendment that could start the process of removing 119-year-old racist language from the state’s constitution.Read more...

Mississippi had long been one of the few remaining states to have Confederate iconography as part of its state flag, but that will finally change after voters selected a new design during Tuesday’s election.

While everything may be in flux today, there is one thing that will always be a constant: cops being mad racist/dumb as hell. The latest instance of a cop being a dumb racist takes us to Massachusetts, where a rookie state trooper was fired after using a racial slur during a confrontation.Read more...

Vote challengers erupted in a chant of “stop the count” outside of a vote counting facility in Detroit on Wednesday.Read more...

As of Wednesday afternoon, the presidential election was still very much ongoing, with millions of ballots still being counted in crucial battleground states.Read more...

I look at it and cuss.Read more...

Considering what’s at stake with this presidential election, I completely understand if you’ve spent the last 24 hours yanking every strand of hair from your head or have gnawed your fingernails into stubs. It’s a lot to process.Read more...

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After a long night of anxiety over vote tabulations in Florida and slow vital Midwestern swing states, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden seems increasingly poised to win the electoral college. He’s also handily winning the popular vote, comfortably surpassing President Obama’s 2008 numbers for the highest…Read more...

The tricycle of Senate evil consists of three wheels: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Trump’s whipping boy Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).

Given the increased sensitivity in today’s social and racial climate, Disney has now provided an update to its original disclaimer on a handful of its animated films.

Police in Tiburon, Calif., are investigating a threat leveled against the city’s only Black-owned business. According to investigators, a social media post threatened to “raid” the local clothing store—which made headlines in August after the owners accused Tiburon police of racial profiling—if Democratic nominee Joe…Read more...

President Donald Trump tries to act like he doesn’t listen to mainstream media but he does and he heard the same news that we did; that mail-in ballots were likely to favor Biden because Democrats aren’t about that “standing in line during a fucking pandemic” life.

While it might’ve been an anxiety-ridden election night for most of us, for the LGBTQ community it was a historic night of triumph. Throughout the country, gay, queer, trans and non-binary candidates racked up congressional win after congressional win, prevailing over years of discrimination in order to put Black…Read more...

Wesley Snipes is setting a rumored record straight. The 58-year-old actor has denied the claim that he tried to strangle Blade: Trinity director David Goyer.Read more...

The clear victor on election night was neither President Donald Trump nor Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden—it was drugs.Read more...

Like many Americans, I woke up with a feeling that can only be described as “The fuck are you talking about it’s close?! Nigga, these last four years and it’s close?!” Today is poised to be one of the most maddening, anxiety-inducing days in recent memory; which is saying something in a year that has included…Read more...

The last 24 hours have been emotionally draining for all of us, but thankfully Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has blessed us all with a little bit of good news to lift our spirits.Read more...

If you extract yourself from your body and the present and view America as a single, 401-year-long continuum, the only aspect of our nation that has remained static through our existence is white supremacy. It is both the threading fabric connecting 1619 to 1776 to 1863 to 1956 to 2016 and the amniotic fluid greasing…Read more...

It’s no secret that the 2020 election has been and continues to be stressful AF. It’s been particularly stressful for progressives whose attitudes appear to range from uncomfortable uncertainty to complete doom and gloom amid election results already reported that make it clear that, regardless of who wins the…Read more...

For those of you who were expecting to tell Kanye West, “Congratulations, President-Elect Kanye West”...well, you can’t tell him nothin’. We may not know yet who our next president is—but it certainly isn’t Kanye.Read more...

Michigan’s secretary of state announced that final results won’t be ready until Wednesday. Philadelphia has 300,000 mail-in ballots to count. Milwaukee isn’t reporting until later this morning.

The commissioner for the Kentucky State police has resigned after it was revealed that a training program used by the force included quotes from Adolf Hitler and Gen. Robert E. Lee.Read more...

Today marks the final day of voting in this year’s presidential election, considered by many to be the most consequential of our lifetimes. But no matter what result (or lack thereof) we wake up to on Wednesday, some of the ramifications of President Donald Trump’s actions will last well past the next presidential…Read more...

It’s been a long four years, y’all. Since Election Day 2016, we’ve lived in what can only be called a surreality; one which has increasingly made many of us feel not only wildly out of control of our democracy (which already existed on a highly relative scale) but our own destinies. With hours—or days, or weeks—to go…Read more...

Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with killing two people during a protest in Kenosha, Wisc., has been placed on a $2 million bond after being deemed a flight risk.Read more...

For convicted felons in Florida, one of their biggest hurdles in exercising their right to vote is exorbitant court fees and fines that prevent them from being eligible to do so. But thanks to LeBron James, Michael Jordan and other celebrities who have partnered with the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, nearly…Read more...

Damn Drake, back at it again, I see. The Toronto-raised rapper has officially earned his 21st No.1 hit on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop song charts, thanks to his latest track, “Laugh Now, Cry Later” featuring rapper Lil Durk.