Source: SIMON MAINA / Getty Kenya’s police are being criticised for their violent response to protests over the past week against government proposals to raise US$2.7 billion in additional taxes. Hundreds of thousands of people, across 35 of Kenya’s 37 counties, poured out onto the streets in opposition to the tax hikes. The police have…
An airline passenger was jailed after attacking a Black airline worker and hurling racial slurs at him at an airport in southeastern Brazil on Sunday. Surveillance footage caught the moments Luana Otoni verbally and physically assaulted an Azul Brazilian Airlines operations manager at the Belo Horizonte Airport in the city of Confins, according to Daily…
Oprah Winfrey never saw the humor in her struggles with weight being mocked for public consumption. Years of yo-yo dieting and testing out new fads promising to melt the fat away came to an end this year when the media mogul debuted her slim figure while promoting the reimagined “Color Purple” ahead of awards season….
Social influencer and celebrity girlfriend Amber Rose has made a career standing next to rappers and entertainers. In the past, she has popped out on the scene as Kanye West’s blond bombshell girlfriend and then had a child with Wiz Khalifah. Not to mention she has another son with Cher’s 38-year-old boyfriend. Last December, many…
Corey Mayes at his New York home on Feb. 10, 2023, after receiving a kidney transplant. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans, who are three times more likely…
Source: Congressional Quarterly / Getty To hear Republicans tell it, the GOP is experiencing an era of unprecedented discrimination not seen since in America some guy named Jim Crow kept telling Black people which establishments they couldn’t enter through the front door. Republicans, right-wing media personalities and other assorted MAGA minions have likened the prosecutions…
A Black woman is working to file charges against a white driver who she caught on cellphone video hurling racial slurs, insults, and threats at her on a coastal Mississippi highway. Neco Eley was driving on U.S. 90 in Biloxi when she spotted a silver Mercedez-Benz swerving in and out of lanes behind her and…
Kenya Moore can finally put the drama of her bad romance with restaurateur Marc Daly behind her. After a drawn-out battle, a Georgia judge signed off on the former couple’s divorce in December 2023, and now a settlement regarding child support and custodial rights has been finalized. Moore quietly eloped with the businessman in 2017….
Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is demanding that CNN grant Black media access to cover Thursday’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump amid reports that the media company is refusing such credentials to those news outlets. Speaking on behalf of the CBC, CBCPAC Chairman and New York Rep….
Source: petrovv / Getty President Biden made a pivotal move on June 25, announcing that he would grant amnesty to LGBTQ veterans who were discharged from the military after being convicted under the obsolete Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 125 for engaging in consensual intercourse. For people of color, the harm has always been…
