Left to right: Thelma Davies and Emmanuel Matadi, flagbearers of Team Liberia, are seen on a boat waving their flag along the River Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images) From Team South Sudan to Team Nigeria, Black brands…
A former white security guard in South Africa who admitted to killing dozens of Black citizens during the apartheid era has died and claimed to BBC News that police officials were complicit in his reign of terror, has died. In a series of chilling interviews with the British network just a week before his death,…
Source: iOne Digital Creative Services Tara Fay Coleman is a largely self-taught artist who grew up on the East Side of Buffalo, New York, and moved to Millvale, Pennsylvania, with her family when she was in high school. She studied fashion and retail management at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. The mother, writer and curator…
Adjoa Andoh attends the “Bridgerton” Season Part Two special screening at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on June 12, 2024, in London, England. (Photo by Lia Toby/Getty Images) “I want to stay in character,” Andoh says. “I just want to come on and be Lady Danbury and do what she’s got to do and be…
(L-R) Kamala Harris (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images); Shirley Chisholm (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) OPINION: The trailblazing politician said that if women across all economic and racial lines joined forces with young people, America could elect its first woman president. Kamala Harris has a shot at making the prediction come true. Editor’s note: The…
Denzel Washington‘s daughter Olivia Washington and her “Slave Play” co-star are defending the production’s controversial approach to making the world of theater a more inclusive and diverse space. Olivia and Kit Harington are the leads in the play that is being performed at the Noel Coward Theatre in London’s historic West End. The story, set…
(Photo credit: Adobe Stock) Next to skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer to develop in women in the United States. A popular treatment for breast cancer, a double mastectomy, might not increase breast cancer survivability, but it’s not all bad news. Double mastectomies involve surgically removing both breasts to prevent…
Vanessa Williams attends the Pamella Roland fashion show during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Starrett-Lehigh Building on Feb. 12, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows) The actress says she felt that Carson was implying “there had to be one Black judge in order for me…
Bristeria Clark (center), a nursing student who also works full-time in county government, is a member of Morehouse School of Medicine’s first class of rural doulas, called Perinatal Patient Navigators. (Matthew Pearson/WABE) Morehouse School of Medicine just graduated its first, all-Black class of rural doulas; doulas are associated with improved labor and delivery outcomes. When Bristeria…
In a now-viral post on Facebook, a Baton Rouge woman posted about how she was kicked out of a local restaurant because an outfit she’d worn to the establishment before violated the dress code. Y’Mine McClanahan wrote on her Facebook page that she’s a regular customer at Stab’s Prime Steak and Seafood. It wasn’t until…
