Photo credits: The Pivot/YouTube and Getty Images Greg Brooks Jr. was an LSU football star who had surgery on a brain tumor and is suing the university and hospital for mishandling his diagnosis. Ryan Clark’s “The Pivot” podcast prides itself on having “pivotal conversations.” However, the podcast host was not prepared for the emotional toll…
A Black teacher from South Carolina alleges that he and his son were racially profiled by park agents at the Universal Studios Florida theme park and were held in an interrogation room for two hours, where he was accused of not having a ticket. The educator who goes by @itscoachtou on TikTok explained that he…
Source: Mitchell Layton / Getty The father of a Black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by police in Cincinnati, Ohio, is now the defendant in a murder case in which a long-serving sheriff’s deputy who was not involved in the teen’s shooting was killed. According to CNN, 38-year-old Rodney Hinton Jr. is charged with aggravated…
Source: ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Getty They told us it couldn’t happen here. That American democracy was too strong, too sacred, too unshakable to fall prey to authoritarianism, but with each executive order, federal raid, and disregard for due process, Donald Trump isn’t just challenging that belief; he’s proving it wrong. What we’re witnessing isn’t a…
Richard Lawson is keeping the details of his fizzled romance with Tina Knowles under lock and key. The “Divorce in the Black” actor and author of “Matriarch” were married from April 2015 to August 2024. Their separation was revealed in July 2023, the same month the fashion designer filed to end the union in Los…
A tense exchange inside a property mailroom has gone viral, capturing a standoff between a Black man trying to collect his package and an Asian woman who refused to let him proceed without an access code — despite his insistence that he lived there. The man who filmed the encounter later posted the footage to…
Portrait of a Man, c. 1855. National Gallery of Art Fashion is one of the most powerful tools we have for understanding ourselves and the world around us. Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Black American tailoring and the legacy of the Black dandy. Inspired by scholar Monica L. Miller’s groundbreaking book…
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 23: Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers and protesters gather at the United States Post Office in Washington, DC on March 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) The second administration of President Donald Trump is being slammed for “putting lives on the line” and “destabilizing”…
Source: JasonDoiy / Getty A white supremacist in Sacramento, California, has been given the maximum sentence for killing a Black man in a drive-by shooting last June for no discernible reason outside of the victim’s race. According to The Sacramento Bee, 48-year-old Joseph Paul DeMarco, who was found guilty in February of the murder of…
Simone Biles made headlines for attending this year’s Kentucky Derby, but the gymnast’s weekend also included her pushing back on rumors that she was expecting her first child after artificial intelligence-generated images of her have circulated throughout 2025. A fake image of a pregnant Biles and her husband, Chicago Bears player Jonathan Owens, first made…
