Gun homicides rose 35% in 2020 and CDC researchers are suggesting methods for changing systems that perpetuate these racial disparities. Black Americans, particularly young Black men, were shown to have had the highest rates of gun deaths among the U.S. population from 2019 to 2020, as overall rates rose 35% to the highest mark in…

Rick Riordan, writer and author of the popular fantasy novel “Percy Jackson,” is speaking out against critics angered by the casting of Leah Jeffries. The actress, who is Black, is set to star as one of the leads in the upcoming adaptation set to release on Disney+. In a lengthy blog post published earlier this…

Source: The Washington Post / Getty North Carolina’s presumptive Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate found herself on the receiving end of Republican attacks just days before the state’s primary. As reported by Axios Raleigh, the new ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee claims Beasley can’t be trusted to protect the state’s families. Relying…

Omoye Assata Lynn, Common’s daughter, was among nearly 2,000 graduates receiving their Howard University diplomas on May 7. Congratulations are in order to Omoye Assata Lynn, daughter of rapper Common, for her recent graduation from Howard University School of Law! The emcee and actor was bursting with joy on May 7 as he watched his…

Business executive Kendall Qualls is among the top candidates heading into Saturday’s balloting. Minnesota Republicans reconvened Saturday to endorse a candidate to challenge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in the November election, a day after delegates picked a political outsider to try to unseat Attorney General Keith Ellison. The 2,200 delegates had to complete their work…

Tamar Braxton shared the growing pains of being a celebrity mother to a third-grader following her son Logan Herbert‘s unusual request. The incident began on May 13, after Braxton informed her Twitter followers that she was going to read at Herbert’s school. In the tweet, she revealed that things took an unexpected turn when the…

Democrats stunned Republicans by delivering Georgia’s electoral votes to President Joe Biden in 2020. Atlanta is submitting a formal bid to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Mayor Andre Dickens announced Friday to Democrats holding their annual state party dinner. “We’re going to do everything in our power to bring the 2024 Democratic National Convention…

While Chris Paul of the Phoenix Suns competes in the NBA playoffs, the Washington Commanders’ Chris Paul is establishing his career Chris Paul the football player knows he shares a name with a much more famous athlete. “There might be another named Chris Paul,” he said with a grin. “I think he plays basketball —…

Source: skynesher / Getty Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declared goal of integrated education is still not yet achieved. American society continues to grow more racially and ethnically diverse. But many of the nation’s public K-12 schools are not well…

Attica Scott says she is motivated to turn her community’s “protest into policy” When the only Democrat representing Kentucky in Congress announced his retirement last year, many expected a frenzy of contenders vying to replace him. Instead, voters in the state’s most competitive Democratic congressional primary will choose Tuesday between only two candidates, both state…