CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 21: Idris Elba attends the press conference for “Three Thousand Years of Longing” during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2022 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Joe Maher/Getty Images)Photo by: Joe Maher / Getty Images Everything you need to know about Idris Elba’s diverse…
Patrick Kelly (fashion designer). (2024, January 13). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kelly_(fashion_designer) From bold-colored scarves to the zoot suit in Harlem to the mass popularity of bold acrylic nails, Black culture in fashion has always been present in American history. Many Black fashion designers like Dapper Dan and makeup/lingerie lines like Fenty Beauty broke ground in a fashion industry…
Source: David McNew / Getty MAGA Republicans are, if nothing else, comically predictable. Over the weekend, a band of neo-Nazis joined a pro-Donald Trump event hosted by his son and daughter-in-law, Eric and Lara Trump. They’d promoted the event as “the mother of all TRUMP boat parades.” When I reported on the event Tuesday, I…
A set of videos that are being widely shared on social media shows four white men following and harassing a Black teenager through a Florida neighborhood. Whitney Portela posted the clips on Facebook and TikTok that show her 18-year-old son walking through a residential community in Sarasota with four older white men tailing him and…
(Photo credit: Screen capture from the “Cold Facts” music video) Rapper Ka died unexpectedly over the weekend at age 52. After releasing his final album, “The Thief Next to Jesus,” in August, New York-based rapper Ka has died at the age of 52. According to a post to his Instagram profile on Monday, Oct. 14,…
Source: Anadolu / Getty As election season approaches, Black women are making their voices heard, expressing confidence that Vice President Kamala Harris can address the serious health challenges impacting their lives, families, and futures. With the ongoing maternal mortality crisis and limited abortion rights, many Black women are looking to Harris to restore full reproductive…
The Victoria Secret Fashion Show was the talk of the internet on the night of Oct. 15, due to the brand’s first show since coming back from its six-year hiatus. Big name stars participated in the event, which took place in Brooklyn. Models Bella, Gigi Hadid and Claudia Schiffer walked the runway while singers like…
Source: Drew Angerer / Getty At this point, I really just need all white politicians, and especially Trump, to keep Black people’s names out of their mouths. They really don’t know how to address us without being cringe, condescending and inherently racist. President Joe Biden was being all of the above in 2020 when he…
A former aide to Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Kamala Harris’ rhetoric is partly responsible for the attempts on the former president’s life. “I think, you know, it’s one thing for you to care about the rhetoric that you say that put Mike Pence in danger,” said Marc Lotter, appearing as a panelist on MSNBC’s “The Beat…
Kevin Hart has had a turbulent year. The 45-year-old entertainer starred in two new motion pictures in 2024 — “Lift” and “Borderlands” — that were panned by professional critics as well as moviegoers. In particular, “Borderlands” is considered a colossal failure. The online entertainment publication Collider ranked the Eli Roth-directed action comedy as the fifth-biggest…
