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…
John Lapinski. | Source: Broward County Sheriff’s Office Last month, on Halloween, a Florida man with a criminal history was arrested on suspicion of weapons violations after he was caught with several unregistered firearms and ammunition he couldn’t legally own. More disturbing than the weapons that were discovered in his home was a list that…
Notorious South Carolina mother Susan Smith, who drowned her two young children after initially claiming a Black man had kidnapped them, was denied parole Wednesday. “I wish I could take that back, I really do,” said Smith, now 53. “I didn’t lie to get away with it. … I was just scared. I didn’t know…
No, you didn’t imagine it. Kim Kardashian was seen snuggled up to a Tesla robot this week, and the backlash from her beleaguered fans has been hilarious and swift. The scantily-clad SKIMS founder was seen on social media seemingly flirting with a gold Tesla robot named Optimus in a series of photos for her latest…
Source: Stígur Már Karlsson /Heimsmyndir / Getty As we prepare for Thanksgiving, it’s important to take a moment to reflect on the invaluable contributions of Black chefs, who have long been instrumental in shaping the culinary world. Despite their undeniable influence, their contributions often go underappreciated. From the rich, soulful flavors of Southern cuisine to…
