Hollywood was shaken when news broke of several beloved figures passing away in the third week of July, including Grammy winners Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Ozzy Osbourne, followed by wrestling legend Hulk Hogan on Thursday, July 24. While Warner and Osbourne’s final moments prompted widespread tributes and mourning from millions worldwide, Hogan’s demise stirred up complicated…
Source: Walt Disney Company / Walt Disney Company Two decades after Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans and exposed deep cracks in America’s disaster response and racial divide, Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is helping to tell the story like it’s never been told before. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker has teamed up with Oscar-winning producers Simon and Jonathan Chinn (Searching for Sugar Man)…
Uber to launch a service for women riders to choose female drivers (Photo:Adobe Stock) Uber announces plans for a program that allows women passengers and drivers to request female drivers and passengers. Hopping into a stranger’s car is already a weird concept when you think about it. Add the potential of being flirted with, harassed,…
FILE – Saint Peter’s Jaylen Murray, left, and Latrell Reid celebrate after Saint Peter’s won a college basketball game against Purdue in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament, March 25, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Trump order pushes federal review of whether college athletes are employees, as NIL era and lawsuits…
Grocery shopping is typically uneventful, but not on this day in San Francisco. A white woman was kicked out of the Safeway on La Playa Street in the Outer Sunset district for berating Black store employees with racial slurs, witnesses say. Her unhinged public meltdown was caught on video, and a three-minute clip of her…
FILE – Students sit on the front steps of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File) Columbia agrees to pay over $220 million and adopt federal mandates on admissions, protests, and athletics to regain $400 million in research funding canceled this year. A deal between Columbia…
“Forming White communities isn’t just one small part of what we can do, it is the ultimate goal of all our efforts.” Those are the words of Eric Orwoll, founder of the Return to the Land Association, a far-right group that has formed a tiny, whites-only community in the Ozarks of Arkansas as part of…
(Photo: Getty Images) In a letter, CBC members accuse National Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard of “blatant misuse” of her role to “shield” Trump, who they describe as a “34-time convicted felon and adjudicated rapist from facing the truth.” Members of the Congressional Black Caucus came out swinging in a letter to the Director of National…
From PCOS to fibroids, many Black women are navigating chronic conditions that make weight loss far more complex than diet and exercise. (Photo: Adobe Stock) From PCOS to fibroids, many Black women are navigating chronic conditions that make weight loss far more complex than diet and exercise. Before jumping to conclusions about Black women’s bodies,…
Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty For people who are constantly fear-mongering about (fictional) election tampering, it seems Republicans only know one sure-fire way to keep giving themselves the edge in current and future elections: Gerrymandering. Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-Houston) threatened to file a lawsuit to block the Texas GOP’s plan to…
