Source: Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty For years, affinity graduations have been a tradition on college campuses across the country. Affinity graduations are optional, often student-organized ceremonies that allow graduates who share cultural, racial, or similar sexual orientations to celebrate their accomplishments and experiences during their educational journey. As a result of the Trump administration’s ongoing…
Source: Darren McCollester Hulton Archive / Getty Tamara Lanier has reached a historic settlement with Harvard University, ending a years-long legal battle over the possession of rare 19th-century photographs of enslaved individuals—including her great-great-great-grandfather, Renty, and his daughter, Delia. On Wednesday, Lanier’s attorney, Joshua Koskoff, announced that Harvard has agreed to transfer the 175-year-old daguerreotypes—the…
LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 07: Letitia Wright attends the “Sound Of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot” VIP Screening at Cineworld Leicester Square on October 07, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images) Letitia Wright hopes her upcoming short film, “Highway to the Moon,” hits home with Black boys. Letitia Wright is…
On his X stream, user @IAnonPatriot posts videos that feed MAGA’s bottomless appetite for outrage. So you can guess the reaction to a video, viewed nearly 700,000 times, of a young Black woman attending her college graduation, refusing to stand for the national anthem. There were plenty of “love it or leave it” sentiments like…
Luka Dončić’s 2024-2025 NBA season ended on April 30 with a loss when the Los Angeles Lakers fell to his former squad, the Dallas Mavericks, in the first round of the playoffs. The Slovenian professional basketball player has apparently used his time since the Lakers failed to go deep in this year’s postseason to drop…
A career Black officer in the Alexandria Police Department passed over for promotion in favor of white colleagues was awarded a “shocking” $7.25 million in compensatory damages by a jury who upheld his allegations of racial discrimination against the city. The verdict appears to surpass the $300,000 statutory cap on compensatory damages in federal discrimination…
Keisha Lance Bottoms attends the She The People ATL special screening on May 18, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Derek White/Getty Images for Netflix) The former Atlanta mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, served as the executive producer of Netflix and Tyler Perry’s “She The People.” Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is proving once again…
Cassie Ventura attends the MobLand Premiere after party at The Twenty-Two on March 31, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Paramount+) Cassie Ventura, who is pregnant with her third child, was reportedly rushed to an undisclosed labor and delivery unit in New York City. Casandra “Cassie” Ventura may be in…
CHAMPAIGN, IL – APRIL 12: Sacha Jenkins attends day three of Ebertfest on April 12, 2019 in Champaign, Illinois. (Photo by Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images for Roger Ebert’s Film Festival) Sacha Jenkins’ family shared a heartfelt and emotional recounting of his final days with them on social media. Jenkins, a renowned storyteller, passed away on May…
Source: JEFF HAYNES / Getty Ten days after a bold escape from the Orleans Justice Center rocked New Orleans, two fugitives remain at large — one of whom carries a legacy of one of the city’s darkest chapters. Among the remaining escapees is 27-year-old Derrick Groves, the grandson of Kim Groves, a woman whose 1994…
