For a group that is meant to de-escalate situations, the police seem to be straight up terrible at it. Unfortunately, their failings often result in someone getting hurt if not flat out killed.Read more...

Republicans have consistently done their best to rig elections in their favor, often at the expense of black voters. If it’s not racially biased gerrymandering it’s closing polling stations in predominately black neighborhoods. Despite their best efforts, one Texas man would not be deterred from exercising his right…Read more...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the Affordable Care Act was officially signed. In the time we’ve seen the Avengers catch Thanos’ hands, Thanos catch the Avengers’ hands and Lex Luthor actually became president of the United States. While the last decade has increased access to healthcare coverage,…Read more...

File this under the exceedingly slim folder labeled “Good News in 2020": Virginia has become the first Southern state to ban hair discrimination, a law that disproportionately impacts black people and their ability to wear their hair as they please.Read more...

Instagram model, activist and almost-lawyer Kim Kardashian, affectionately known as “the Rosa Parks of people who are nothing like Rosa Parks,” visited President Donald Trump on Wednesday to push for further criminal justice reform.

Everyone has anxieties. Some of us have to take medicine and others, like former President Bill Clinton, have an affair with their intern.

Dear Sir or White Man,

Another day, another video of police inflicting violence on the very people who pay the salaries they earn to protect and serve the public.

So, I have a question that’s been perplexing me that will illuminate some things, possibly about me and you, your momma and your cousin, too. I’m hoping that I’m not alone in this; in fact, I’m assuming that I’m not. The question is: How black is this?Read more...

It seems like everyone has something to say about the ongoing lawsuit involving Megan Thee Stallion and her record label, 1501 Certified Entertainment. Of course, we’re here to report on all the parties involved.Read more...

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When I was a child watching reruns of Star Trek, one of the things I always wondered was … where did all the black people go? Sure, there was actress Nichelle Nichols’ Uhura and she was amazing. And later, on series like Star Trek: Next Generation there was Geordi La Forge and, even later, Benjamin Sisko (and his…Read more...

Sometimes the right decision is still the tough decision.

When I walk around the enclave known as Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, N.Y., I can’t help but notice a trend—a trend that has no doubt accompanied the rapid whirlwind of gentrification that’s transforming every block in my neighborhood.

Nicki Minaj’s husband messed up…and this isn’t a petty crime.Read more...

Olive Garden is, for the most part, a respectable establishment. It’s a decent first date option if you’re young or broke. It’s a great place to treat coworkers or families who really, really love breadsticks or have the gastrointestinal fortitude to eat pasta for two to three hours.Read more...

President Trump is a liar’s liar. Other less experienced liars look up to Trump. He’s #liargoals.

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The increasing spread of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has resulted in travel plans and large-scale events being put into limbo. While most disruptions have affected international travel, it appears now that COVID-19 has affected domestic travel as well.Read more...

A week ago, 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill killed himself and five of his co-workers at the Molson Coors Brewery in Milwaukee. While a motive is still unclear at the time, recently revealed information may provide some context as to why he committed such a heinous act.Read more...

Tonight’s story proves that even in the face of outright tragedy, cops will find a way to be fucking gross.Read more...

Imagine spending 31 years in jail for a crime you were forced to confess to. That’s a good chunk of your life span spent incarcerated due to being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Unfortunately, that was reality for Stanley Wrice.Read more...

Standing outside the Supreme Court Monday morning, Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley drew attention to her outfit, a long-sleeved leather dress: “I don’t know if y’all can see but I’m rocking my ‘resistance leather,’ Pressley quipped in front of a gathering of protesters. “I came dressed for battle because…Read more...

For the last several years, Tavis Smiley has demanded he have his day in court against his former employer, PBS. He got his wish in February, claiming that the network weaponized its morality clause against him; PBS counterclaimed that multiple, credible accusations of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment made his…Read more...

In the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s, Director X’s stamp was all over your favorite music videos. Whether he made you whine with Sean Paul’s catalog or emote with Usher, Director X is certainly a staple within the culture.Read more...

OAKLAND, Calif.—Branice McKinzie walked up to a ballot drop box near the Alameda County Courthouse in downtown Oakland knowing that much of the electorate isn’t voting for Elizabeth Warren at this point, but she cast her ballot for the Massachusetts senator anyway. She praised Warren for her aggressive challenge of…Read more...

Like every sports-loving athlete, I too have dreams of hitting a big shot in a big game while the crowd goes wild.

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We should’ve known that Symone Sanders’ work as senior adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden was a cover. We should’ve known by the haircut and the “don’t take shit” attitude. We should’ve known with the way that she punishes pundits on a daily basis.

It’s the resurgence of Uncle Joe!

Among Black creatives and their intended audience, there’s an ongoing debate about whether there is such a thing as being “authentically Black,” and if so, how that should be depicted onscreen. From the way African Americans talk (and code-switch) to how they wear their hair, to the cultural fact that sweet potato pie…Read more...

The saga surrounding Megan Thee Stallion’s rift with her record label continues.Read more...

Once, for about an hour, on a hot day in July 2007, I was not black.Read more...

It must be nice to be so wealthy that you can ignore people whose job it is to tell you that you don’t have a roasted marshmallows chance in Omarion’s heart of coming anywhere close to winning the Democratic nomination, and you forge on ahead anyway.

When it comes to racist, hateful behavior the assumption is that young, white men have the market cornered. Two white women in Massachusetts seem to have decided to prove that they can be just as trash as their male counterparts.Read more...

Marshawn Lynch is a man of few words. When the former(?) Seahawks running back does decide to speak he often drops some jewels. This makes it particularly interesting that this is the speaker Princeton students have a problem with.Read more...

The American criminal justice system has no shortage of people who were convicted under questionable if not completely wrong circumstances. Nathaniel Woods is one of those people and the consequences could soon prove fatal.

Joe Biden is surging. Following a blowout win in the South Carolina primary, the former Vice President has received a much needed Super Tuesday boost in states like Virginia and Texas, where he and frontrunner Bernie Sanders were virtually tied. In California, where Sanders still leads, polling average aggregator…Read more...

Just as Black History Month was ending, the Town Hall in New York City pulled out a seat at their table and made room to honor Solange Knowles with the inaugural Lena Horne Prize for Artists Creating Social Impact.

A broken clock can be right twice a day and apparently so can a blatant xenophobe and racist.Read more...

Rapper Pop Smoke, who was brutally gunned down last month at a home in the Hollywood Hills, will be laid to rest later this week in his hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Jeremy O. Harris has signed a two-year overall deal with HBO. As part of the deal, the Slave Play playwright will be developing an untitled pilot along with continuing his co-producer role for Euphoria, the premium cable series starring Zendaya.Read more...

March 3 marks International Women’s Day and Secret Deodorant is celebrating remarkable women in the sports industry like tennis icon Serena Williams and Olympic Gold Medalist and NBA New Orleans Pelicans executive Swin Cash in its latest short film titled, “Not the First.”Read more...

OAKLAND, Calif—Chaney Turner has already voted in California’s primary and said that the person who got her vote was most likely to liberalize America’s federal marijauna policies to empower black cannabis entrepreneurs.Read more...

Racial demographic changes in Texas over the last decade have led political experts and activists to view the state, once considered a conservative stronghold, as a battleground state. But as Texas’ electoral power becomes increasingly contested, polling stations have closed at a pace that has eclipsed every other…Read more...

Former interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile is a black woman. Yes, she is a black woman that works for Fox News but that doesn’t mean that Brazile doesn’t put her bonnet on one side at a time like the rest of black women.

The NBA prides itself on putting fans first, and with the deadly coronavirus terrorizing airports and immune systems throughout the world, the league is putting precautionary measures in place to protect its million-dollar athletes.Read more...

It’s Super Tuesday, so you know what that means? It means that it’s a regular Tuesday that has a babysitter and is getting dressed up to go to the club with her girlfriends. It’s Tuesday in leggings and heels. It’s thotting and bopping Tuesday. It’s Tuesday saying “Ayeeee” while her homegirls dance in a roped off…Read more...

When I was 16, my mother and my next-door neighbor, who we called “Crow,” dropped me off for my first year of college.

It’s Super Tuesday, y’all!Read more...