Author Percival Everett attends the 75th National Book Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) Black Classic Press publisher W. Paul Coates, father of Ta-Nehisi Coates, also received a lifetime achievement medal from the National Book Foundation. NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James,”…
Allison Jean, center, mother of Botham Jean, makes comments during a news conference as attorneys Ben Crump, left, Lee Merritt, rear, and Daryl Washington, right, look on after the sentencing phase of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s murder trial at Frank Crowley Court Building in Dallas, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) After…
Fans of Steve Harvey may want to take his advice with a grain of salt. The popular host has plenty of hot takes on relationships to share with others, but does he apply those words of wisdom regarding matters of the heart to his own life? A look back at the guidance he gave an…
Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, (2nd-R) speaks as Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump (L), North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (2nd-R) and Vivek Ramaswamy (R) listen during a campaign rally in the basement ballroom of The Margate Resort on January 22, 2024 in Laconia, New Hampshire. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “He’s clearly not…
Source: Chinnapong / Getty The recent election demonstrates the enduring and pervasive anti-Blackness buried deeply in the American consciousness. Americans acted upon it recently within the nation’s most self-proclaimed bastions of democracy and freedom. Recent exit polls revealed that a vast majority of white and white-aspiring voters want to live in a country that adheres to social…
A sign is displayed outside an apartment building in Skokie, Ill., April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) SafeRent Solutions, the company behind an algorithm designed to score rental applicants, agreed to pay over $2.2 million and roll back certain parts of its screening products that the lawsuit alleged were discriminatory. Mary Louis’ excitement…
A Florida couple faces multiple charges of violently attacking a middle school resource officer who had charged their son with battery just one day before the alleged incident. Jorge Rivera and his wife, Dagmarie Aponte Iturrino, met with the officer on Tuesday at Deltona Middle School, about 30 miles northeast of Orlando in Volusia County, to…
Amber Guyger and Botham Jean. | Source: Texas Department Of Corrections and Ben Crump Law The family of a Black man who was killed in 2018 after a white off-duty police officer broke into his home and killed him under the purported guise she thought he was an intruder in her own apartment solemnly welcomed…
Heidi Klum is still keeping it sexy on set. The 51-year-old model recently did a photo shoot with Rankin, a British photographer, where she brought her smoking-hot poses and glared while executing the perfect shots. Klum and Rankin have worked together for 20 years, and the photo shoot was a T-shirt campaign to celebrate that…
Hindsight is 20/20, and for LisaRaye McCoy, the writing that her friendship with Nicole Murphy would crumble was already on the wall. The women were friends nearly two decades ago before an alleged affair permanently altered their bond. The “Player’s Club” star has long claimed that Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife had been inappropriately involved with her…
