This engraving shows the 1619 arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale in Jamestown, Virginia. The Dutch government reportedly plans to apologize for the Netherlands’ role in the slave trade by the end of 2022 or the beginning of next year. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Ghanaian President John Dramani…
Source: Emily Gregory for Florida / emilygregoryforflorida.com As the policies and decision-making from both President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress continue to make everyday life worse for the average U.S. citizen, it’s looking increasingly likely that the midterms are going to be a bloodbath. Across several elections ahead of the midterms, Democrats have flipped…
Cardi B appears at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 12, 2023. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) During a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Cardi opened up about the overwhelming response to her “Little Miss Drama” tour. Cardi B is celebrating a major career milestone as…
President Donald Trump has a well-known appetite for soaking up the praise from the people around him — everyone from his die-hard MAGA crowd to members of his cabinet. The compliments tend to flow easily in his orbit, often landing with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for a headliner taking center stage. For supporters…
Netflix teases “Bridgerton” Season 5 (Screenshot: Netflix/YouTube) Fans applaud “Bridgerton’s” first queer couple, while others question Shonda Rhimes’ storytelling and approach to representation and romance. Dearest gentle reader, “Bridgerton” is returning to Netflix for a fifth season, expected to take the show into all-new territories. This week, the Shondaland production shared first-look images of its…
Source: WWE / Getty We have taught people to fear a type of man before we have taught them how to recognize a harmful one. So when secrecy shows up, when betrayal shows up, when a man is exposed, when same-sex intimacy enters the story, many people reach for the same explanation: he must be…
Attorneys for the Missouri cops who arrested a Black man for shoplifting in 2023 claimed they were doing him a favor by beating, tasering, and pepper-spraying him before abandoning him with a broken jaw in a remote field — describing it as a “courtesy ride” — because they did not transport him to jail. But…
President Donald Trump has spent weeks trying to project control as tensions with Iran escalate, juggling a volatile oil market and a war that continues to raise new questions about strategy. But in a moment that quickly veered off script, that balancing act gave way to something more familiar — the instant shift that tends…
Cbs Photo Archive / Getty Images “She worked at this, and it makes me proud that she fought for something that she really wanted to do,” he said. Jaÿ-Z is opening up about fatherhood and watching his daughter Blue Ivy Carter grow into her own spotlight, offering a rare glimpse into their family dynamic in…
So, officials with a law enforcement agency in Mississippi were cleaning out their headquarters’ closet and found a KKK handbook, and, well — no, no, this is completely surprising news. According to Mississippi Today, Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials were cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new location when they came…
