Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty Throughout my entire adult life, I’ve held one truth in my heart: The Republican Party absolutely hates poor people. While the GOP has always found ways to undercut the lower and working classes, their war on the poor has been supercharged under the Trump administration. Due to a lack of…
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 30: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L) speaks during an event on Health Technology in the East Room of the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz (2nd R) and Acting Administrator of the United States…
Newlywed Lauren Sánchez can check off another new beginning after dropping her son Evan Whitesell off at college. The 19-year-old had his mom in tow for moving day at the University of Miami on Aug. 11. The former journalist shares Evan and daughter Ella, 17, with her ex-husband, Patrick Whitesell. Sánchez also shares son Nikko…
(Photo: Instagram) The son of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” stars Rasheeda and Kirk Frost son may be at the center of T-Hood’s murder investigation. The reality-TV-to-real-life drama surrounding one of Atlanta’s most well-known entertainment families has taken a tragic turn. Ky Lasheed Frost, 24, the eldest son of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” (LHHATL)…
Halloween came early this year for one Black woman who had an unsettling visitor: her enraged next-door neighbor. In a June 26 post that has been gaining attention on Instagram, an incensed white woman was shown repeatedly harassing her Black neighbor. It was a truly chilling display that included yelling, scratching, baring of teeth, whispering,…
(Photo credit: Adobe Stock) The Illinois Family Roots Pilot program is expanding across the state after launching in June with 250 kits. A program aimed at helping Black residents trace their ancestry, and in some cases, reconnect with living relatives in Africa, is expanding across the state of Illinois. The Illinois Family Roots Pilot Program,…
Source: People The family of Giovanni Pelletier is struggling to put the pieces together behind his mysterious death. On Aug. 9, Bridgette Pelletier, the 18-year-old’s mother, took to Facebook to confirm his death, one day after authorities found a decomposing body in a retention pond near Interstate 75 at State Road 70, in Manatee County,…
Police in Maine spent almost five months refusing to release body camera footage of at least 10 officers detaining a 16-year-old Black high school student at gunpoint, claiming he “matched the description” of a 19-year-old Black teen wanted on burglary charges. But the boy’s mother said the two look nothing alike aside from their skin…
Source: Christopher Polk / Getty Let’s talk about something that’s always been part of Black culture and spaces: colorism. Ari Lennox recently called out Martin for its running jokes about Pam, saying they were rooted in colorism. As a proud dark-skinned woman and longtime fan of the show, I understand where she’s coming from. Growing up, the…
