Gabrielle Union shared a video with her Instagram users on Christmas Day detailing what it’s like to be a Black actress and producer in Hollywood. The 51-year-old actress’s video comes days after her friend and fellow actress Taraji P. Henson broke down while speaking about Black women being underpaid in the entertainment industry during an…
A TikTok user championed a man for defending her neighbor from a drunken stranger who refused to leave her porch because he thought he lived there. The video posted by @aries_submissivetomboy, which has received over 8 million views on the platform, shows a barefoot man who appears to be intoxicated in front of a woman’s…
Source: Instagram/Umar Johnson / Instagram/Umar Johnson Dr. Umar Johnson has been at the center of much criticism and many controversies over the years in a trend he continued recently in spectacular fashion during an appearance on a popular podcast. The same man who once said queer people are a “conspiracy” to control the population has…
The governing board of a small town in the Mississippi Delta has voted to reinstate a police officer who was suspended after he shot an 11-year-old Black boy who had called police to his home earlier this year to help resolve a domestic dispute involving his mother. During a special session, the city of Indianola Board…
A jury has awarded five former and current Black University of Washington police officers a $16 million verdict in their racial discrimination lawsuit against the college. The verdict came in on Dec. 22 following a six-week trial against the University of Washington Police Department. According to The Seattle Times, testimony at the trial revealed multiple…
Social media has juxtaposed T.D. Jakes’ recent sex scandal with that of another popular televangelist from the South. TikTok and the X platform have been flooded with people comparing the Potter House pastor’s address to his congregation on Christmas Eve service with the late Bishop Eddie Long’s address before his Georgia megachurch New Birth Missionary…
Controversial former murder defendant Kyle Rittenhouse is facing online backlash after promoting his new book, “Acquitted,” and recommending it as a Christmas gift for the special price of $59.99 for an autographed copy. The book recounts his experience of being thrust into the spotlight, navigating a court battle after fatally shooting two men, Joseph Rosenbaum,…
Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies reacts after a dunk during overtime of an NBA game against the New Orleans Pelicans at Smoothie King Center on December 26, 2023, in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Source: Sean Gardner / Getty The NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies’ overtime victory Tuesday night over the New Orleans Pelicans made for a…
Grammy-winning artist Childish Gambino has been heralded as one of the most visionary artists of the 2010s. However, the alter-ego of actor and comedian Donald Glover is currently making headlines not for his amazing art, but for his bad business. Childish Gambino accused of stiff African model who posed on the cover of his album…
Three Washington state police officers were found not guilty of all criminal charges in the fatal arrest of Manuel Ellis — a Black man who was walking home in 2020 when deputies confronted him before being pinned down and brutalized as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe.” The more than two-month trial ended Dec. 21 as…
