NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 19: Tina Knowles speaks onstage during Matriarch: An Evening with Tina Knowles, Family, and Friends at Brooklyn Paramount on May 19, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) As Beyoncé and family catch strays left and right, Mama Knowles reposted a message and reminder to “ignore…
What was meant to be a picture-perfect family moment for one of rock ’n’ roll’s biggest families has turned into an unexpected spotlight on the matriarch’s new look. Sharon Osbourne stood out in a video of her daughter Kelly’s surprise engagement ceremony at her father Ozzy’s farewell Black Sabbath concert. Online observers were less focused…
Source: FREDERIC J. BROWN / Getty It has been six months since California’s Prop 36 — also known as the “Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act” — took effect after voters overwhelmingly passed the measure in the November 2024 general election. Unsurprisingly, it took only half a year for the data to yield results…
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) Judge says Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship is “lawless, unconstitutional, and cruel,” and rules against it. A federal judge in New Hampshire said Thursday he will certify a…
President Donald Trump was surprised Wednesday to hear the Liberian president speak fluent English, even though it’s Liberia’s official language. In a room filled with African heads of state, each speaking through interpreters and headsets, Liberian President Joseph Boakai didn’t need equipment or a translator. He spoke clearly in perfect English. That’s when the president…
Lauren Sánchez continues to be under a spotlight but not always for reasons she might want. The former journalist who married Amazon founder Jeff Bezos last month became a major gossip target when her relationship with the billionaire became public, and that kind of attention can come with the price of ridicule and criticism. On…
Officials comb through the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Experts warn U.S. responses to worsening floods, fires, and heatwaves remain dangerously out of sync with climate reality. After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought…
Source: Courtesy / TV One TV One and CLEO TV turned up the heat at this year’s Essence Festival of Culture, serving up more than just good food. They dished out soul, storytelling, and Black excellence. Read more about the conversation inside. During the Essence Eats segment of the Essence Food & Wine Festival, TV…
The family of a man who was shot more than a dozen times by police has filed a lawsuit claiming that law enforcement fatally shot him as he was surrendering himself and complying with their orders. Antwan Lindsey, 45, died on July 8, 2023, after he was shot 15 times by police officers in an…
South Africa’s Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi, right, speaks as Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations watches on during the UNAIDS report release at Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Germiston, South Africa, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) “We could be ending AIDS. Instead, the U.S. is abandoning the…
