Denzel Washington attends the “Highest 2 Lowest” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images) Denzel Washington receives the festival’s highest honor and a standing ovation as he steals the show with Spike Lee and A$AP Rocky….
For several months, whenever Renee Williams walked into a store to make a purchase or answered a phone call about her bank account, she half-joked: “Let me check if I’m still alive today.” But behind her dry wit and slight grin is an ordeal that’s no laughing matter. For more than six months, the West…
Source: Barry Brecheisen / Getty Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division saw a mass exodus of more than 100 attorneys who up and resigned from the department due to its focus on white grievance and steering away from (or outright gutting) cases involving civil rights protections for Black people, people of…
Source: Netflix / Netflix My sincerest apologies to Keisha and Justin. I tried, I really did. If you came here looking for a full, spoiler-filled review of Netflix’s “Forever,: I regret to inform you that you’re going to be disappointed. Not because I didn’t plan on reviewing it. I did. Not because I wasn’t excited…
Megan Thee Stallion’s lawyer released a statement after claims that the rapper’s former friend, Kelsey, admitted to the shooting, not Tory Lanez. (Photos: Getty Images) Megan Thee Stallion shuts down rumors about Kelsey Harris shooting: “Tory, You Shot Me.” Megan Thee Stallion is reclaiming her truth—and she’s doing it loud enough for the people in…
Kearie Watts, a 23-year-old Black woman from Kentucky, had just left her grandmother’s house with friends after celebrating Mother’s Day when she was yanked out of her car by an aggressive and irate police officer who accused her of driving through an active crime scene. However, she said she had no idea she had driven…
Source: Mike Coppola / Getty The second week of the federal sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs resumed Monday with harrowing testimony from three key witnesses, each painting an increasingly disturbing portrait of a man they claim used his immense wealth and influence to control, abuse, and silence people in his…
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Leader Jeffries held a news conference to discuss various topics including the budget reconciliation bill. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)/ Rep. LaMonica McIver Official Photo House…
Chaka Khan, 72, recently hit the road for The Queens: 4 Legends. 1 Stage tour, joining fellow music icons Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, and Stephanie Mills for a powerhouse celebration of R&B and soul. The 11-city tour kicked off on May 9 in Las Vegas and has since made stops in Oakland, Los Angeles, Birmingham,…
Source: Brown family / Brown family Today is Michael Brown’s 29th birthday, and as his family continues to pursue justice, it’s on all of us to make sure that his story is never forgotten. On Saturday, August 9, 2014, while walking with his friend Dorian Johnson in Ferguson, Mo.—after police say he was caught on…
