It’s been two and a half years since a Memphis cop gunned down Jaylin McKenzie, and the mother of the 20-year-old Black man is convinced police planted a gun near his body to support their narrative that her son had shot at the cop first. After all, Memphis police have refused to release all the…
A new photo of Donald Trump next to his 27-year-old White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has social media doing a double take, with viewers claiming she looks much older than her actual age. On July 3, Leavitt posted an image capturing herself standing next to the 79-year-old president during a recent campaign stop, sparking…
Fans of Jaden Smith were hit with a wave of nostalgia after an interview of the then 11-year-old actor on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” resurfaced. However, the warm and fuzzy feelings quickly turned into concern after many began to see the troubling contrasts between Smith then and him now at 26 years old. The 2008 interview…
Art is subjective, but that does not make it immune to criticism. That very thought, though, placed actors Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee at odds nearly two decades ago. The public quarrel resurfaced when author Shawn Levy released “Clint: The Man and The Movies” on July 1. The biography looks back at the career and…
Source: UCG / Getty A member of a transnational white nationalist group dubbed the “Terrorgram Collective” was indicted in Northern California on Tuesday for allegedly doxxing several federal officials in an effort to build a hit list. According to the Sacramento Bee, 24-year-old Noah Lamb was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on Tuesday…
Americans are now getting caught up in President Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown on immigrants caught in the U.S. illegally. A Texas man, the son of a longtime U.S. Army veteran, was deported to Jamaica, despite his father’s U.S. citizenship and his birth on an American military base in Europe, according to The Austin Chronicle. In…
Source: justocker / Getty Several federal grants designed to expand internet access for rural and Black communities as well as help fund several non-profits focused on Black healthcare in Georgia were cut as part of the DOGE endeavor earlier this year. According to The Current, the Digital Equity Capacity Program was a federal grant intended…
What should have been a moment of joy for American Idol winner Jamal Roberts instead became a painful lesson in how celebration can quickly turn into hostility when racial bias and resentment rear their heads in the Deep South. Fresh off his history-making season 23 victory, where he pulled in 26 million votes — more…
Source: Seth Herald / Getty One of the stranger issues the GOP focused on during the last election cycle was “school choice.” There was a big push for taxpayer-funded vouchers that essentially act as scholarships for private schools. Given that this is the party down with pulling funding for free school lunches, it was a…
Seven former Black employees at Woodgrain, Inc., a global wood products manufacturer, allege in a federal lawsuit that they were fired after complaining about racial slurs and discriminatory treatment at the company’s Aurora, Colorado, plant. In their lawsuit filed on May 21 in U.S. District Court in Colorado (and obtained by Atlanta Black Star), the…
