FILE – Guard Flau’jae Johnson warms up during practice at USA Basketball women’s Americup trials, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at the USA Olympics training center in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) As NIL opportunities reshape the landscape of college sports, women’s basketball stars are building brands, giving back, and redefining success on and…
(Photo: Getty Images) “These bills are a gift-wrapped invitation for Trump to continue his full-scale crypto con,” warned the longtime congresswoman and ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to pass landmark cryptocurrency legislation, sending the nation’s first federal regulatory framework for stablecoin digital currencies to the…
Source: Interim Archives / Getty Five years after civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis passed away, communities are mobilizing to make some “good trouble” on Thursday, July 17. More than a symbolic nod to Lewis and his commitment to voting rights and civil rights more broadly, organizers of the “Good Trouble Lives On” Day of…
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Trump blasts his own base over Epstein backlash, calls sex trafficking case a “hoax” and disavows former loyalists amid growing rift with…
Nicki Minaj and SZA go back and forth on social media (Photos: Getty Images) As fans scramble to piece together the root of the drama, TDE’s Punch offers insight into SZA and Nicki Minaj’s beef. This week, Nicki Minaj and SZA caught fans off guard with an unexpected back-and-forth on X (formerly Twitter). The source…
A Hispanic American Chicago family who said their 5- and 9-year-old children were traumatized by guns pointed at them during a bungled 2017 no-knock police raid on the wrong apartment are poised to receive $2.5 million in a settlement of their lawsuit against the city and seven police officers. On Monday, the Chicago City Council’s…
Michelle Obama is sticking by her husband Barack Obama’s side in good times and in bad, till death do they part. The former president joined his wife and her brother, Craig Robinson, for the July 16 episode of the “In My Opinion” podcast the siblings launched in the spring. The trio wasted no time in…
Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty One would think that with Texas still reeling from a natural disaster that’s killed more than 100 people, with many more still missing, the state legislature would focus solely on rebuilding and recovery efforts, right? Nope. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has asked the state legislature to begin redistricting in what…
Criticism of Essence’s annual culture festival in New Orleans reached a fever pitch once the event wrapped; Essence and its owner have responded. One of the biggest events in Black America is the annual Essence Festival of Culture, typically held in New Orleans over the July 4th weekend. Essence Fest, as it’s usually called, typically…
Following the release of independent autopsy results showing that a Black college student was shot in the back by a police officer in Alabama, the family and their attorneys are calling for state authorities to release bodycam footage showing the fatal encounter. Jabari Peoples was fatally shot on June 23 in the Birmingham suburb of…
