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A racist dog whistle had unprotected, drunken sex with fear-mongering and the result was former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—U.S Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) and a group of faith leaders are marching down Church Avenue here in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn behind a huge banner that reads, “#LETMEBREATHE,” referencing the police killing of George Floyd.Read more...

Other than being a dugout janitor or collecting urine samples for a living, I can’t think of a worse job in professional sports than being the head coach of the New York Knicks. The owner is somehow both a coward and an imbecile, the front office is a rotating cast of resounding failures and sexual harassment…Read more...

Jharrel Jerome had quite a triumphant 2019 awards season, so I’ve been wondering what the 2019 Emmy Winner and 2020 Young Futurists honoree will be appearing in next. Fans have spotted him co-starring in Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades, which dropped on Amazon Prime this spring, but of course, eyes are…Read more...

Shaun King is not wrong.Read more...

Apparently a lot of folks have decided that if government officials won’t act to remove any and all monuments erected to celebrate oppressors, then it’s on the people to tear them all down themselves. On Monday night, protesters targeted the statue of President Andrew Jackson that stands in a park in Washington D.C.,…Read more...

What’s Blacker than Black AF? I guess we’ll find out because Kenya Barris’ Netflix comedy #BlackAF has been renewed for Season 2.Read more...

Jimmy Kimmel has had a really interesting week, and it’s only Tuesday.

Nothing says, “I’m trying to rile up my racist base by appealing solely to their racism because I’m losing this upcoming election” like using the presidential Twitter account, the account that will be archived for future generations, to post videos of random black men attacking people.

With all the time we’ve spent staring at the walls these past few months, it’s no wonder we’ve had art on the brain...not to mention it’s a welcome escape from what has felt like an unceasing stream of bad news. Call it art therapy, but the desire to beautify our lives is more than aesthetic—it’s a reminder that there…Read more...

Chrystul Kizer, a 19-year-old accused of killing her alleged sex trafficker in 2018, was able to step outside Kenosha County Detention Facility in Wisconsin for the first time in two years on Monday. Saddled with an oppressively high bond—originally set at $1 million, then bumped down to $400,000—Kizer had been in…Read more...

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. just lost two players from the school’s football team because Falwell is a tone-deaf idiot who didn’t realize that tweeting his face mask design—which included an image of a white man in blackface next to a person in a Ku Klux Klan robe—might be off putting to his black…Read more...

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In 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory against American Airlines for just being flat out racist. Three years later, the airline is now facing a lawsuit because a flight attendant just couldn’t stop her inner Karen from hopping out.Read more...

Larry Brown (the Indiana council member not the former NBA coach) is a goddamn idiot.

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit earlier this spring, voting rights advocates have voiced concern over the country’s ability to operate free and fair elections. Tomorrow, all eyes will be on Kentucky, which will be running its most anticipated Democratic primary in years with only a sliver of in-person polling…Read more...

Law enforcement is a sensitive bunch. Apparently being told “Hey, don’t kill us,” just gets them in their feelings, so much so that an employee at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California was arrested for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign.

The fight to remove Confederate monuments has only intensified over the last month of nationwide protests. Now, it’s not only protestors asking for these monuments to be removed but even the relatives of those who had monuments made in their memory.Read more...

Throughout his comedy career, Jamie Foxx gained a reputation as a master impersonator. However, with his Oscar-winning performance in 2004’s Ray, Foxx proved he had acting chops far beyond bit impersonations.Read more...

An officer with the New York Police Department has been suspended after a video surfaced showing him placing a man he was detaining in a chokehold and resting his weight on him.

After tearing ligaments in her knee and missing the entire 2019 WNBA season, Las Vegas Aces star Angel McCoughtry took to Instagram to announce that she’ll finally be returning to the court this upcoming season. But that wasn’t her only announcement, as she intends to use her platform to address the police brutality…Read more...

The Sunken Place has apparently claimed an unlikely victim—the son of iconic heavyweight boxer and renowned civil rights activist Muhammad Ali.Read more...

The George Floyd protests against systemic racism have reignited an age-old debate about whether there is a place in society for symbols to the Confederate States of America.Read more...

The “black sidekick” character trope certainly isn’t new, but it’s still relevant—so relevant that there are still references to it in TikTok videos.Read more...

The fashion industry has long prided itself on making statements, but its recent response to outcries for racial justice has left much to be desired in the eyes of some of its most luminous members. The black boxes splashed across social media on #BlackoutTuesday (June 20) have been followed by a similarly echoing…Read more...

America loves whiteness.Read more...

From the moment Jill Scott hit the scene nationally in 2000, she was a force. While she got dropped into the earthy-crunchy, neo-soul bucket of the late 90s and early aughts—I think being both from Philly, the epicenter of the movement if it had one, and the “sound” of her music helped this categorization—Jill to me…Read more...

Kenya Barris and Pharrell Williams are in the developmental stages of a full-fledged Juneteenth musical, which will have a home on Netflix.

If you’ve never heard of Robert Kiyosaki or his Rich Dad Poor Dad empire of financial advice, I want you to stop reading this, I want you to get on your knees, and I want you to thank God for granting you such luck. You are blessed. You are highly favored. Unfortunately, many of us are not as fortunate, as this book…Read more...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ensured that this year’s ESPYs would be radically different than any of its predecessors. And to the surprise of no one, there was no red carpet, no gaudy venue or lengthy monologue taking unsolicited jabs at some of the biggest names in sports. But for what it lacked in tradition, it…Read more...

There is a popular misconception that the death of George Floyd has ignited Black America to finally unleash the pent-up frustrations we have swallowed for lo so many years.Read more...

Last July, President Trump made headlines by lashing out at a group of progressive congresswomen—among them Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the first Somali elected to Congress—and told them to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.” Days later, crowds at a Trump…Read more...

For Father’s Day on Sunday, social media was flooded with declarations of love for the father figures in our lives. Musician and actress Kelly Rowland wrote a heartwarming account of the day she first met her biological father two years ago to commemorate the occasion.

Minority corrections officers at the Ramsey County Jail filed a lawsuit with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights Friday alleging that they were barred from performing their duties anywhere near the vicinity of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd. The eight…Read more...

On June 6, Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau just wanted rest: a shower, a soft bed, a chance to get clean and maybe even sleep. The 19-year-old student and Black Lives Matter activist was exhausted: she had played an active part in the anti-police brutality demonstrations in Tallahassee, Fla., where police executed three…Read more...

Maybe Dave Chappelle summoned this in his latest special by making a reference to his classic joke—or maybe this is just 2020 being 2020—but Ja Rule is trending again.Read more...

In the end, Trump’s Tulsa rally on Saturday turned out like most of the president’s tenure on the job; there was a lot of hype, a show, and a depleted and bombed out crowd. What was supposed to be a packed house of 19,000 turned out to be about the same amount of people who could fit into a Ford Crown Victoria. The…Read more...

On Sunday, as Juneteenth celebrations drew to a close, a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Ala.Read more...

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New reports have revealed that both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were using spy planes and other airborne surveillance technology to monitor the protests for black lives that have been taking place across the country.

Comedian D.L. Hughley has COVID-19. He was diagnosed with coronavirus after being tested at a hospital in Nashville where he was taken after collapsing on stage at a comedy show on Friday, Hughley revealed in a video on Instagram over the weekend.

Today—June 21, 2020—is Father’s Day. My goal on today was to feature an iconic music video about black fathers and fatherhood. And you know what feels like damn near an impossible task? Finding a music video for a song celebrating black fathers and black fatherhood. In fact, there were so few videos in this particular…Read more...

You’d think Trump and his personal enforcers—aka, the police—would celebrate any legitimate ticket holder seeking to attend his woefully underwhelming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma yesterday.

Protestors in the nation’s capital ended Juneteenth on an appropriate note yesterday by toppling the statue of a Confederate general.

Updated: 6/20/2020 4:24 p.m. EDT: Attorney General William Barr said in a letter on Saturday that the President has terminated Geoffrey Berman’s post as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.Read more...

Juneteenth, the holiday recognizing the end of slavery in the U.S., was marked by widespread celebrations across the country yesterday—bringing a bright spot of joy in a year that’s left the Black community experiencing more than its fair share of sorrow.

I cannot tell you how much I love Stephanie Mills’ video for “(You’re Puttin’) A Rush On Me” so I won’t even try. I love it a lot lot, though. What I will attempt to explain is why I love this video so much. For starters, I’d be willing to bet good money that a significant amount of people haven’t seen this video. It…Read more...

Happy Juneteenth, everybody! And what a special Juneteenth it is.Read more...

It ain’t nearly enough...but it’s a start.Read more...

Father’s Day is upon us and even before COVID-19, the sock aisles at your favorite retailers (that also sold groceries!) were probably almost bare, but now they are probably empty. Socks and ties are the Father’s Day staples near and far, to and fro. But is that what the father in your life really wants for Father’s…Read more...