The Supreme Court as shaped by Donald Trump has proven itself to be highly partisan. Even in issues that don’t directly affect the President, they seem to be ruling in a way that he’d agree with.Read more...

Alright y’all, I’m pretty certain that there has been a concerted effort by educators to make this the worst Black History Month of all time. The amount of head-assery that has occurred over the past 25 days has got your boy in disbelief.Read more...

CHARLESTON, S.C.—Greetings from South Carolina, where seven candidates for the Democratic nomination for president will try and convince voters in the state why they should back their candidacies at 8 p.m. ET.Read more...

The story told by police body cameras is even worse than the one initially reported last year, when school resource Officer Dennis Turner was fired for arresting 6-year-old Kaia Rolle for throwing a tantrum at her Orange County, Fla., charter school.

More than 90 New York activists, citizens, politicians, city officials, and religious leaders who survived the Bloomberg administration have united to pen an open letter in an attempt to shed light on “The Real Mike Bloomberg.” The missive from the group described as “New Yorkers of Color” is an appeal to voters in…Read more...

I have dry skin. I also can’t stand to moisturize. My black-ass mother and father are probably laughing and shaking their heads at my antics, but I’m being honest. Because I have ashy skin, I absolutely need to place lotion on my body or else I can feel the tightness and scratchiness. And I can see the dryness, which…Read more...

Ahhh...push it! Push some new eyeshadows and lip colors our way, that is. Pioneering female hip-hop duo Salt-N-Pepa (and yes, they are a duo, these days) have partnered with “mass-tige” beauty brand Milani on a ‘90s-inspired makeup collection, a new ode to the era that helped make them household names.Read more...

A mother in Houston received a phone call from her son’s school saying he had been injured in an altercation. When she arrived at the school, her son had a deep gash above his eyebrow and had to be airlifted to a hospital. But that’s not the most disturbing part of the story, believe it or not.Read more...

The White House wanted to clear up a few things to set everyone at ease: First, whales are not mating with elephants so the reports of “whalephants” are false. Also, reports of quicksand deaths have been grossly misreported as the last person to die from quicksand was Wile E. Coyote. And, when the president said…Read more...

Hiram R. Revels became the first African-American senator in America in 1870. Also that year, Jonathan Wright, in South Carolina, became the first African American to serve on a state’s Supreme Court. In 1950, Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in a regular-season NBA game. Franklin D. Raines is the…Read more...

I’m obsessed with race.Read more...

For creators of color, one of the biggest challenges is securing the funding needed to bring our dreams to life. That’s why producer Nina Yang Bongiovi (Fruitvale Station, Dope, Sorry to Bother You) has assembled a super team of film and tech heavyweights to launch the multicultural film fund AUM Group.Read more...

Dr. Janina Jeff can tell you just about anything you want to know about genetics testing: How does it work? What can it tell you? How do you spell mitochondria again? But Jeff herself has never taken a DNA test.Read more...

If all goes to plan, Alabama will execute Nathaniel Woods next week, a black man convicted in 2004 of murdering three officers at a dope house in Birmingham, making him the first prisoner executed in the state this year.Read more...

Somebody doesn’t like Michael Bloomberg.Read more...

Much like the truth, President Trump doesn’t have a good relationship with CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta.

A Dyson vacuum, cast iron skillet set, Anker surge protector, and Turbo Tax software lead off Tuesday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

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Kobe Bryant was supposed to be invincible.

HOUSTON—Amanda Edwards is all about those deliverables. That’s her training as a lawyer: results. Public consensus is how she views a pathway to policy that can save lives and extend them. In Amanda Edwards’ world, there is plenty of space for values, integrity and people’s humanity. There is, however, no space for…Read more...

Attacks on LGBTQ adoptions feel like they’ve been steadily increasing. It seems like things will come to a head during the Supreme Court’s next term.Read more...

President of the United States and sentient roast beef sandwich, Donald Trump has a severe distaste for the law and brown people. When he’s not actively trying to sabotage our judicial system he’s making sure to let black and brown folks know that he isn’t fucking with them like that. Take today’s news for instance.

Last month, Vanessa Bryant faced one of the most horrific losses possible when her husband and daughter died in a helicopter crash. Now, she is taking legal action against the helicopter company that was responsible for chartering the flight.Read more...

It was written to be an anthem of empowerment, expressing joy and affirmation in being a woman from Mecca:Read more...

The “category” was excellence, and Black Hollywood showed up and showed out.

In Alabama’s 2018 special elections, black women saved their state from sending an alleged teenage dating connoisseur to the U.S Senate. Instead, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) won the empty seat vacated by former MAGA Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, whose voting record is just as racist as his name.

Matthew A. Cherry is no stranger to award shows.Read more...

President Trump hates vegetables more than he hates black people. Fine, he doesn’t hate vegetables that much but he rarely eats them. And it’s understandable after his visit to Willy Wonka’s crib in which he ate a carrot that looked like meat and it tinted his skin orange.

You ain’t got the answers, Sway! Trust and listen to black women.

A month after Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna died tragically in a helicopter crash, thousands of fans will get a chance to say goodbye at a memorial ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday.Read more...

We regret to inform you that “But What About Harvey Weinstein, Tho?”—the bizarre and increasingly popular defense of R. Kelly, Russell Simmons, Bill Cosby and any other black man some (idiots) feel has been unfairly persecuted and scapegoated by the media, feminists, black women, SANS (simp-ass niggas), Oprah Winfrey,…Read more...

Supreme Court Justice and unofficial mime Clarence Thomas is trash.

It took a moment to register just what, exactly, the announcer had said.Read more...

A Networking Gold Box, iRobot robovac, Aukey mechanical keyboard, and a Netgear Switch lead off Monday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

Katherine G. Johnson, the NASA mathematician who played a key role in helping America win the space race and whose story was featured in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, died Monday. She was 101 years old.

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Just when you thought the previous plot twist was the end of the Jussie Smollett saga, there’s another plot twist to the plot twist. The actor is back in court, in relation to his previous claims that he was the target of a homophobic and racist attack in January 2019.

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BET Networks will celebrate the life and memory of late basketball legend Kobe Bryant in a special way.Read more...

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is all about the come-up.Read more...

According to the Associated Press, Greyhound, the largest bus company in the country, has officially declared that they will no longer be allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to conduct routine immigration checks on their busses.Read more...

“Save Your Race Join the Base”Read more...

B. Smith, the trailblazing fashion model who proved to be more successful as a restaurateur, television personality and branding pioneer, has passed away at age 70.Read more...

Rihanna, a woman of and for the people, received the President’s Award at last night’s 51st annual NAACP Image Awards and used her voice, yet again, to speak truth to power.Read more...

You know, there’s a very good reason the NAACP Image Awards ceremony takes place in late February—and it’s not simply because it’s Black History Month. It’s because, after far too many awards seasons in which we are only marginally included—including this past one—at the Image Awards, we get the last word, as…Read more...

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Tis’ The Season.Read more...

Chuck Brown would be proud.Read more...

Cardi B is not taking the latest lawsuit lodged against her lightly.Read more...

Wednesday night, America watched as Sen. Elizabeth Warren pulled zero punches as she pummeled the hell out of former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg on stage during the last 2020 democratic debate. Warren went all 2pac “Hit Em’ Up” style on Bloomberg attacking him on everything from his notorious “stop and frisk” policy…Read more...