Misty Copeland poses for a portrait on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP) Ten years after making history as the first Black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland announces her retirement — closing one chapter while expanding her legacy offstage. Ten years ago this month, Misty Copeland…
Source: Here’s the thing: white conservatives want to do away with DEI, critical race theory, and everything else that gets their racial resentment flowing, but they don’t really want to get into the weeds of whether their anti-progress stances have merit, or whether the people in charge of deciding what constitutes DEI and CRT are…
LES CAYES, HAITI – AUGUST 15: A boy is tended to outside Les Cayes General Hospital as a preventive measure for possible replicas after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on August 15, 2021 in Les Cayes, Haiti. (Photo by Richard Pierrin/Getty Images) The Trump administration’s ban has stalled or canceled lifesaving procedures for at least a dozen…
Just weeks before her daughter planned to announce her pregnancy, Marcia Pochette looked forward to becoming a grandmother. But on the evening of July 30, 2024, both their lives were violently cut short — and now, nearly a year later, seven West Palm Beach police officers are facing criminal charges in the tragic vehicle pursuit…
FILE – Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) Sly Stone, the genre-defying musical visionary, dies at 82 after a trailblazing career that redefined funk, rock, and soul — and left an indelible…
In a move right out of President Donald Trump’s playbook, members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the U.S. government contending their rights were violated when they were arrested and convicted for crimes connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Trump supporters were…
Oprah Winfrey finally knows what it is like to be surprised in front of millions of viewers. The mogul, 71, was among the Hollywood A-listers dressed in their finest red carpet attire for the 78th annual Tony Awards held in Los Angeles on June 8. The ceremony celebrating theater’s best and brightest talent on and…
Source: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Getty Last week, Elon Musk and Donald Trump had social media in a frenzy as their bromance very publicly (and expectedly) fell apart. Both men took swipes at one another, culminating with Elon Musk tweeting that the real reason the Epstein files were never released was because Donald Trump was included…
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 03: Ciara attends The Connie Orlando Foundation’s Inaugural Black Women in Music Dinner at Audrey Irmas Pavilion on June 03, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) || LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 25: Chrissy Lampkin and Jim Jones attend 2020 Roc Nation THE BRUNCH on January…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Sunday the state will sue the Trump administration over what he called an illegal and provocative deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, following days of civil unrest sparked by aggressive immigration raids. The move comes as former ICE director and President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan threatened…
