Diddy poses in the press room with his Global Icon Award at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) Preliminary stages for the jury selection have already begun in the high-profile sexual assault case, “United States v. Combs.” With the…
People line up for groceries outside The Campaign Against Hunger’s distribution center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/James Pollard) Food banks typically see the most need during periods of high unemployment, yet the U.S. is facing a hunger crisis during a hard labor market. The Campaign Against Hunger was…
A Black worker with the Connecticut Department of Transportation has settled a lawsuit with the state that accused four DOT supervisors of using racial slurs and denying him opportunities for training and promotion. Tyquon Williams first sued the DOT in state court in 2022, alleging that he and other Black employees at the agency’s Milford…
Source: towfiqu ahamed / Getty Black people have been washing chicken, steak, and just about every other kind of meat since forever, and no, not with dish soap (despite that one viral video that haunts us all). It’s a sacred kitchen ritual, passed down through generations and across the diaspora. Whether it’s lemon, lime, vinegar,…
This combination photo shows various fashion worn by Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton. (AP Photo) “It’s always a dialogue, between what you can put on and what you can’t take off,” said 2025 Met Gala exhibit advisor of Black fashion Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley was given…
An Oregon Catholic school’s decision to expel a Black child after he was reportedly called a racist slur set off a wave of backlash from other families who withdrew their children and demanded that school leaders re-enroll the student and change their policies. Karis Stoudamire-Phillips and her husband, Mike Phillips, recounted how tensions escalated between…
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speaks during an event with House and Senate Democrats to mark 100 days of President Donald Trump’s term on the steps of the Senate on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) The 49-49 vote came weeks after the Senate approved a resolution that would have blocked Trump’s ability…
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is facing backlash after claiming that former first lady Michelle Obama “dislikes” her husband and should focus more on her marriage instead of redefining herself as a media mogul. During Tuesday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the subject was once again about the Chicago native. (Photo: Carlson Tucker…
The former lead singer of the rock band Journey has turned up in public and headlines again. According to the Daily Mail, Steve Perry, 76 was spotted on April 24 making a grocery store run with his rumored partner Suzette Vaughn. Perry went to Erewhon market in Los Angeles that day wearing casual clothes that…
A mentally ill woman who declared herself the “Charles Bronson of Bristol” after fatally stabbing a 61-year-old Black man in broad daylight had pleaded for psychiatric help moments before the racially motivated attack that killed Hubert “Isaac” Brown in southwest England two years ago. The case resurfaced late last week as a judge in Bristol…
