Dionne Warwick and Jennifer Hudson perform onstage during the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony streaming on Disney+ at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 19, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) Black music’s impact gets the spotlight during the 2024 class…
The mother of two middle schoolers in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, says her daughters were subjected to racial harassment and discrimination in a series of provocative incidents that led her to pursue legal action. Named in Candace Ward’s 17-page lawsuit: the Oak Park Board of Education, two teachers at Edward Julian Middle School and…
Donald Trump speaks alongside moderator Sage Steele during a town hall campaign event at the Lancaster County Convention Center on October 20, 2024, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. | Source: Win McNamee / Getty White fragility’s favorite POC mouthpiece, Sage Steele, is currently being dragged across social media for selling her soul to hop aboard the MAGA…
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 11: The crowd at the Pepsi x ESSENCE “She Got Now” at Howard University Homecoming on October 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Pepsi) OPINION: There’s nothing like witnessing the Black joy of an HBCU homecoming. Even little kids can realize that feeling is one they…
Representatives from “the Central Park Five,” New York City Council Member Dr. Yusef Salaam (2nd-L) speaks on stage as (L-R) Activist Kevin Richardson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Activist Korey Wise, and Activist Raymond Santana look on during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois….
Diddy performs onstage at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Over 120 lawsuits against Sean Diddy Combs have been filed, including a Jane Doe who alleges an assault occurred when she was 13. In addition to the 120 lawsuits filed already against…
FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 20: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump poses with employees during a visit to McDonald’s restaurant on October 20, 2024 in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. Trump is campaigning the entire day in the state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images) “This is the most insane kind of campaign from the…
Kim Kardashian attended the 2024 Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 19, but unfortunately, her look was not a hit with many fans. Fashion Bomb Daily posted a recent photo of her in vintage Thierry Mugler at the fourth annual Academy Museum Gala, with some questioning whether, as a mother of four,…
Black children are hitting puberty at earlier ages. (Photo via Freepik) Nancy Redd’s “The Real Body Manual” breaks barriers for Black families in learning how to talk about puberty with their kids. We may think of our children as our forever babies, but their bodies don’t always tell the same story. Research shows that more…
Three construction workers who face felony charges for an alleged attack on a Black police officer are pushing back against the allegations, arguing that authorities should have pinned the assault on the cop, not them. Matthew Devlin, Garrett Gibbs, and Donnie Hurley Jr. all face felony assault and kidnapping charges after allegedly shouting racial slurs…
