Of all the strange hills people choose to die on, the “coronavirus protections are like Nazi Germany” hill has to be among the most absurd. One Alaska lawmaker sent an email to dozens of his colleagues expressing that ridiculous comparison and then doubled down on his rhetoric with an equally preposterous claim that…Read more...

Eons from now, when the planet is a barren wasteland scorched by solar flares and sheathed by Amazon Hub lockers, several of our evolved descendants will leave their homes on Lunar Outpost X Æ A-12 to return to Earth on an artifact-finding mission. And they will discover, amongst the ruins, a pristine copy of Andrea…Read more...

As we begin to flesh out this social studies feature, we heard through the grapevine (not The Grapevine) that many of you were wondering what the hell we were trying to do with this series. It is just a listicle meant for clicks? Is it a list of memes?Read more...

Two police officers in Kansas City, Mo., are finally facing assault charges for using excessive force on a black transgender woman, including slamming her face into the concrete in an incident that was captured on video a year ago.

President Donald Trump is Future.

May 19, 2020 will mark the 95th birthday of the late, great Malcolm X.Read more...

The federal government’s response to COVID-19 has been a mess from the top to the bottom, including the “you’re on your own” approach it’s taken towards black people, who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

White people seem to follow the same playbook whenever there’s a new high-profile case involving an unarmed black person being killed by neighborhood vigilantes or police. When they’re not shouting “What about black-on-black crime?” from every mountaintop they can find, character assassination appears to be the name…Read more...

The Trump administration refuses to respect boundaries. It’s almost as if the president believes that just because Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, comes over and does the Trump’s family laundry that everyone is available to do house chores.

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Whenever a filmmaker wins an Academy Award, fans and industry folks alike sit at the edge of their figurative seats and await the newly decorated artist’s next work.Read more...

Misty Copeland, who became American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American principal dancer in 2015, is still putting in work.Read more...

A man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Nina Pop, a 28-year-old trans woman found stabbed to death in Missouri earlier this month.Read more...

Police in Colorado are seeking the public’s help to identify a man who went grocery shopping while wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood this weekend, though a similar case in San Diego recently ended with the police throwing up their hands and going, “This is America.”

New texts reveal that the Glynn County police recommended that the owner of the property at the center of the Ahmaud Arbery shooting contact Greg McMichael whenever he “got action on his camera.”

If you were one of the people who tuned into the Verzuz battle between Ludacris and Nelly on Instagram Live last night ready to shake ya tail feather to bops from the 2000s, you were likely disappointed because of Nelly’s shitty wifi.

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Barack Obama called on young black people to be “warriors for justice” and commented on the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery during a special speech he gave to 2020 HBCU graduates over the weekend.

In the midst of all the bad news that this year insists on bringing, black women have been bringing us spots of joy by being amazing and groundbreaking as usual.

Surely there is a reasonable medium between brutalizing black people for not properly adhering to COVID-19 related measures and courteously handing out masks to white people who are decidedly not observing social distancing rules?

Last week, a Facebook Live video went viral detailing the shooting death of 21-year-old Dreasjon “Sean” Reed by the Indianapolis police. In the video an officer could be heard saying “I think it’s going to be a closed casket, homie,” after Reed had been gunned down.

Want to know how my week is going? I saw a tweet that resonated so much with the phenomenon that is self-isolation fog (a term I literally just made up as I’m typing this), I almost slid off my bed. Here is the tweet, posted this past Wednesday night:Read more...

Last month, Michigan State Senator Dale Zorn wore what looked suspiciously like a Confederate flag for a face mask. The senator has since said that the design wasn’t a Confederate flag but the NAACP ain’t buying it.Read more...

According to historical records, Wikipedia and Instagram, Ice Cube’s debut, solo album, the indisputable classic, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, turns 30-years-old on May 16, 2020. For those of us (you) less mathematically inclined individuals, that means that the album was released on May 16, 1990.Read more...

In most cases, being named a L’Oréal Paris spokesperson would be quite the glow-up for the honoree—the French cosmetics company has built up an impressive and diverse roster of celebrities to represent it over the years. But take a casual glance through the resume of Jaha Dukureh, a prominent women’s rights activist…Read more...

“If a white person said that...”

Pittsburg Steelers great James Harrison is a character.

Three years ago I interviewed Gabrielle Union about her New York Times bestseller We’re Going to Need More Wine, and that day will always be memorable to me because it was also the day I revealed my sexuality to my mother. At that time, my mother was not a fan of my lifestyle. Words were exchanged and we didn’t end…Read more...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has made no apologies about creating a safe space inside President Trump’s ass. As such, he’s found himself spouting claims he heard Trump say without fact-checking because, like most Trump supporters, he doesn’t give a shit. So when Trump claimed that he wasn’t given the…Read more...

Have you been watching this season of Insecure? If you haven’t but you plan to, stop right here, because I am about to spoil it for you.Read more...

The month of May typically signals the beginning of the summer movie season. This year was set to be full of potential bangers from Fast and Furious 9 to Black Widow. Given that the many of films set to be released this summer have been postponed to either winter or next year, the summer is looking pretty vacant.

The three Louisville Metro police officers who raided the home of 26-year-old EMT Breonna Taylor weren’t wearing body cameras at the time of the shooting, raising questions about the department’s policies as local and state officials called for the FBI to review the high-profile killing.Read more...

Social media is a great educational tool.Read more...

This week’s playlist is both in honor of Jilly from Philly and E. Badu’s Verzuz battle from last weekend, but also because in our current climate, a long walk is what many of us rely on for a bit of peace.

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Former top U.S. vaccine official, Rick Bright, walked into Congress Thursday and asked for a large bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, a Nehi grape soda, and a pack of Marlboro Lights 100s and proceeded to give up everything he knew about how fucking screwed Americans are if they are waiting for the Trump administration to…Read more...

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Black activists have always used every technological advance we can to organize for a safer, less hostile world for black people. Our ancestors used songs to send messages during slavery.Read more...

Stay-at-home orders have made a vast majority of American citizens prisoners in their own homes, yet cornerbacks DeAndre Baker of the New York Giants and Quinton Dunbar of the Seattle Seahawks have still found a way to get caught up in some bullshit.Read more...

Tracee Ellis Ross is “reaching out to touch” your heart with her new song debut!Read more...

The unsigned note was simple, but haunting: “Ahmaud—I am so sorry. I should have stopped them. I am so sorry.”Read more...

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A group of black men exercising their Second Amendment rights showed up in the Georgia neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed to demonstrate for freedom and liberty because…Read more...

The shooting death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of police has spurred national conversation and outrage. Now, the state of Kentucky has appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case.

It has become incredibly apparent over the last few weeks that white people believe it is their divine right to police black people.Read more...

White supremacists who, in the year 2020, still consider interracial relationships to be an abomination before God and Ku Klux Klan Jesus, built a website to doxx white women who are in relationships with men of color.

As we navigate the mental, emotional, physical and financial challenges of self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic, we have to cling to the smaller things in life to bring joy…like babies and fruit snacks.Read more...

Before we begin, can anyone explain this Obamagate stuff that the Trump Administration pushing?

With no games to play, and limited access to gyms, basketball courts and training facilities, players throughout the NBA are struggling like the rest of us to make the most of so much idle time. But instead of squandering his afternoons mowing down opponents in Fortnite or binge-watching Little Fires Everywhere,…Read more...