Linda Chapman of Waterbury, left, a member of the Zeta Phi Beta, talks with U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn. at a Souls to the Polls voting rally at Grace Baptist Church Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Waterbury, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) Downballot candidates, particularly Black women, have benefited from a surge in support this year…
Virginia Gasber is supposed to be on the vacation of her dreams. She saved $11,000 for a group trip with other Black women to Dubai, planned by a Georgia-based travel agency. Instead, she’s home in Chicago, her vacation canceled and her money gone. “I’m at the point of life, spending this type of money, where…
Actress Shirley MacLaine tried — and failed — to shoot her shot with Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman. In her new book “The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime,” MacLaine, 90, shared a memory of when she tried to get the attention of Freeman, 87. “I propositioned him,” she wrote in the…
Republican nominee Donald Trump appeared in a garbage truck Wednesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after President Joe Biden seemingly called his supporters “garbage” in response to a racially offensive standup routine during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend. Biden’s comments gave Trump new ammunition to attack Democratic nominee Kamala Harris on the…
Source: GIORGIO VIERA / Getty The lines between reality and partisan fear-mongering grow fainter every day, demanding we use these last 5 days until Election Day to remind voters that conservatives’ apocalyptic vision for America’s future will only take root if we allow it. If you’re still having trouble grasping what life in the United…
FILE – Southern California guard JuJu Watkins reacts after a shot during a second-round college basketball game against Kansas in the women’s NCAA Tournament in Los Angeles, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File) “I know we lost some great ones in Angel and Caitlin, but we gained so much more. We gained so…
“Breakfast Club” host and popular hip-hop influencer DJ Envy is facing backlash from his followers after posting a pre-Halloween family video. Envy, his wife Gia Casey, and their six children — Madison, 23; Logan, 21; London, 11; Jaxson, 10; Brooklyn, 8; and Peyton, almost 3 — celebrated Halloween Eve by recreating Lil Kim’s 1996 “Crush…
A visitor dressed in a ghost costume at Goosebump market as a part of Halloween festival in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) Stories of spiritual entities, paranormal activity and creepy cryptids are passed through generations the world over, becoming local legends that only sometimes reach across borders and cultures. Some are…
A 33-year-old mother from Kentucky pleaded guilty to murdering her two young sons after initially claiming she was “legally insane” when she shot them both in the head inside their home late last year. Tiffanie Lucas had been facing a trial in December for the deaths of Maurice “Peanut” Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard,…
A voter checks in at a polling location during the South Carolina Democratic Primary on February 3, 2024, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. | Source: ALLISON JOYCE / Getty Viral video footage shows a white man physically attacking a group of Black women poll workers in South Carolina after they prevented him from voting, apparently because…
