The entrance to Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty Historically Black colleges and universities’ (HBCUs) ongoing showing of solidarity with one of its own after an on-campus mass shooting is continuing in an unprecedented fashion as the annual homecoming season gets underway this weekend. After Morgan State University…
Malia and Sasha Obama left the White House more than six years ago, but much of the public remains deeply invested in keeping up with the young adults. America watched the daughters of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama grow up during their eight years in the executive mansion in Washington, D.C….
According to reports, Kanye West allegedly has strict rules his wife, Bianca Censori, must follow. Ye and the model reportedly wed in Pala Alto, California, last December, just one month after his divorce from Kim Kardashian was finalized. Insiders tell the Daily Mail that Ye has convinced Censori that they are “royal” and that she…
Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty It’s been six years since the death of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins, the Illinois teen who died of hypothermia in 2017 after she stumbled into a hotel walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel & Conference Center in Rosemont, Illinois. Officials have since ruled Jenkins’ death as an…
The gunman who carried out a mass shooting in New York City last year was sentenced to 10 life terms in prison by a federal judge this week. In April 2022, 64-year-old Frank James discharged his firearm during rush hour at the 36 Street subway station in Brooklyn, leaving 10 people shot and more than a dozen…
Drake just dropped his long-awaited “For All The Dogs” album, and while a lot of fans love the new music, the project is getting backlash from some of the lyrics on one particular song. The Canadian rapper is no stranger to getting called out after his album releases. For his last album, “Her Loss,” Megan…
Source: Cass County Jail / Cass County Jail A North Dakota man was arrested Tuesday on charges of terrorizing after he allegedly threatened and hurled racial slurs at a Black woman and others. According to The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 63-year-old Gerald Knorr was at an Aldi grocery store in Fargo with his dog when he…
A Minneapolis, Minnesota, council committee rejected a workers’ compensation claim to the former city police officer involved in the beating of a Black veteran a few years ago. On Monday, the city policy and government oversight board voted 4-1 against giving Sgt. Andrew Bittell the $145,000 PTSD payment, MPRNews reported. Bittell was one of the officers who…
Fans are doing a double take after Jaden Smith uploaded a side-by-side photo reflecting on his past “phases.” The 25-year-old rapper penned a tweet to X on Thursday, Oct. 5, and shared two images. The first photo was a throwback image from 2019, featuring Smith shirtless as he seemingly waved to a crowd. In the…
Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty The recent and clear instance of racial discrimination displayed at a Denny’s location in South Dakota has drawn attention to the embattled restaurant chain’s troubling and decades-long legacy of profiling both customers and employees who are not white. In case you missed it, in August, two Black truckers recorded their…
