NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – FEBRUARY 09: Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) While hip-hop fans praised Lamar’s performance for taking a political stance while also centering Black culture, some conservative voices made clear…
An upstate New York judge has stepped down from his post after he attempted to bypass jury duty by admitting he could not remain impartial because he believed all people who end up in court to face charges are guilty. Richard T. Snyder, a justice of the Petersburgh Town Court, complied with a summons for…
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The president contradicted other officials in his administration who have sought to Trump…
A flag is raised during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) The conflict in Sudan has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes and left some families eating grass…
Actress Zoe Saldaña’s back-and-forth with her husband, Marco Perego Saldaña, at the Critics Choice Awards has set social media on fire, with many critics questioning why she treated her partner so rudely in public and others evoking several cultural stereotypes. Dressed in a striking red silk Saint Laurent gown, accented with a Cartier choker and…
A St. Louis jury has awarded nearly $19 million to the family of a Black man who was shot and killed by police a decade ago. Mansur Ball-Bey was fatally shot by two St. Louis police officers in 2015 as they served a search warrant in the Fountain Park neighborhood. At the time, then-Circuit Attorney…
Source: Xinhua News Agency / Getty Tennis phenom Coco Gauff is following in the footsteps of many young, Black and legendary athletes by giving back to the Black community and future student-athletes via a $100,000 gift to the United Negro College Fund. In fact, according to Blavity, at age 20, Gauff is one of the…
A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene. Deborah W. Parker, University of Virginia “Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da…
“I’m giving you a chance; just one chance. I’m going to be watching you, boy.” That’s the ominous way Ethan Mullins, a 23-year-old Black man, says his new boss, a white man in his 30s, spoke to him just after he was hired as a maintenance worker at a skilled nursing facility for seniors in…
FILE – Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, attends the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File) UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima pleaded with the Trump administration not to abruptly cut off funding, which she said has resulted in “panic,…
