Dr. Marlon Millner pictured with Dr. Cornel West. Photo courtesy of Dr. Marlon Millner In the coming days, I will return to the red clay hills of Georgia to gather and celebrate hundreds of Black men who will graduate from Morehouse College, the nation’s only historically Black college or university dedicated to serving male-identified Black…
Ashtian Barnes died during a police traffic stop in 2016. for this image credit could i say (Screenshot: Barnes Family GoFundMe) Supreme Court orders new review in civil rights case over 2016 police killing of Ashtian Barnes during a traffic stop in Texas. A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday revived a civil rights lawsuit against a Texas…
Maryland U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks has stuck to her messaging this week, at protests and in a congressional hearing: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must go! Alsobrooks made it clear Wednesday she’s had enough of Kennedy’s dissembling and vaccine skepticism, telling Kennedy, “Sir, you are the wrong person for this job.” US Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Maryland)…
Comedian Amber Ruffin attends the PEN America Spring Literary Gala at The American Museum of Natural History on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) Thursday night’s event at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City was a protest against the suppression of speech. Amber Ruffin looked out upon…
The sign above the door to the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging inside the main administration building on the main University of Kansas campus is seen on Friday, April 12, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File) The surge comes as Trump’s executive orders seeking to halt DEI initiatives ripple through the federal government, universities,…
Tamara Tunie as Anita Dupree, left, and Clifton Davis as Vernon Dupree in a scene from “Beyond the Gates.”. (Quantrell Colbert/CBS via AP) “Beyond the Gates,” the first Black soap opera in over 25 years, first premiered on CBS on February 24. When CBS’ soap opera “Beyond the Gates” premiered in February, soap opera fans and veterans…
A local NAACP group in Minnesota said multiple individuals have been posing as the rightful recipients of more than a quarter-million dollars that the organization raised for the family of a Black child who was called racial slurs on a playground. The NAACP Rochester Branch launched a GoFundMe that drew thousands of donations for a…
Sharon Osbourne has openly admitted for over a year now that she’s been struggling to put on weight since using Ozempic. Recent paparazzi photos of her suggest that is true. The former “The Talk” co-host was spotted out in Los Angeles with her daughter Aimee Osbourne on May 14 holding her purse as she headed…
Empty shopping carts are collected from the parking lot at Walmart store in Burbank, Calif., on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) President Donald Trump has slapped new import taxes on nearly all of America’s trading partners. Volley after volley of tariffs — and at times on-again, off-again trade actions — have put companies around the world on edge….
Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up about the time she got plastic surgery after receiving disparaging comments from a cinematographer. The seasoned actress claimed the procedure took place when she was in her 20s and working on her 1985 film “Perfect.” During her May 11 interview on “60 Minutes” she revealed the exact words the…
