Actress and producer Issa Rae attends HBO Max’s “Seen & Heard Part 2” screening during Martha’s Vineyard African American 23rd Film Festival at Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center on August 09, 2025 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) Issa Rae taps Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, Mara Brock Akil, and more, to explore…
Source: Clive Brunskill / Getty Tennis star Taylor Townsend’s victory in the second round of her U.S. Open match against Latvian player Jelena Ostapenko took a sour turn on Aug. 27. What began as a celebration quickly evolved into controversy when footage shared on social media showed the two athletes engaging in a heated argument…
With Love, Meghan. Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex in episode 105 of With Love, Meghan. (Photo courtesy of Netflix © 2024) Meghan Markle opens up about the hate the first season of her series “With Love, Meghan” received as the second season arrives on Netflix. Meghan Markle clocked the haters of her show. In a…
Mya poses at the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) “It’s not my focus, and it never has been.” Mýa’s reflections on being child-free and husband-free echo a growing trend among women. Mýa is moving on her own time, and she’s perfectly…
LaDarius Butler had broken no law last year when he and his partner chose to take their 3-year-old child from a Colorado hospital after receiving conflicting medical advice on how to treat his shortness of breath in order to seek another medical opinion elsewhere. But the Black man ended up tasered, handcuffed, and arrested on…
Former “Mike and Molly” star Melissa McCarthy has fans stunned with her latest Instagram post. On Aug. 8, the actress shared a glimpse of her pottery date with her husband, Ben Falcone. The two took a class in Los Angeles with a family-owned business called Wild Clay, and McCarthy gleefully showed off her creations in…
Source: Probal Rashid / Getty New York. Chicago. Los Angeles. Baltimore. Washington, D.C. One by one, their names crawl across the headlines like enemy targets in crosshairs. These cities are majority Black- and Brown, Democratic-led with Black mayors, labeled by the right as “crime-ridden” urban hellscapes. The headlines clang together in ominous rhythm: the Pentagon…
Actress Zoë Kravitz stepped onto the carpet at the New York City premiere of “Caught Stealing” ready to toast her latest project alongside co-stars musician Bad Bunny and Austin Butler. But instead of the spotlight staying on the film or her signature fashion edge, the trio’s photo op quickly took on a life of its…
Source: Juan Silva / Getty Louisiana Republicans are, once again, fighting for their right to racially gerrymander their voting maps and claiming that any attempt to bar them from doing so is actually the act that is racially discriminatory. Only this time, they’re asking the Supreme Court to overturn a key provision of the Voting…
(Photo: Getty Images) “Our leaders must have the courage to act to stop these tragedies,” said former Vice President Kamala Harris. The country is reeling from yet another mass shooting after the Annunciation Catholic School community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was horrified by a deadly shooting during a church mass that left two young students dead and…
