The department made a bold statement last year detailing new anti-racism policies. It was briefly suspended but ultimately removed from the UCF website. The University of Central Florida’s English department made a bold statement last year detailing new anti-racism policies, noting that it had an “appalling history of complicity in perpetuating colonialist and racist practices…
Demonstrators hold signs during a vigil in honor of Jayland Walker on July 8, 2022, in Akron, Ohio. | Source: Angelo Merendino / Getty The funeral for an unarmed Black man who was killed in a hail of dozens of bullets by police in Ohio will feature an open casket in a move that harkens…
Last December, Taye Diggs and Apryl Jones ignited romance rumors after the pair was seen attending a party together. Diggs and Jones would continue to add more fuel to the fire and seemingly confirm their relationship in February after she publicly declared her love for the “Best Man” actor in an Instagram post. Taye Diggs…
Monk’s siblings repeatedly contacted Alameda County sheriff’s deputies saying that their brother needed several medications. Maurice Monk died at the Santa Rita jail last year after staff at the Dublin, California, facility allegedly refused to give the 45-year-old inmate medications he needed for a diagnosed mental illness. On Monday, his family filed a lawsuit alleging…
UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Khiara Bridges speaks during a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 12, 2022, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty By now, anyone who pays attention to American politics is well aware of Dr. Khiara Bridges, the Black woman…
Jamie Foxx left Floyd Mayweather cracking up after the actor did an impression of the Hall of Fame professional boxer in front of him and his team. The 54-year-old comedian was seen dapping up Mayweather before doing an impression based on one of the boxer’s best-known refrains, saying, “They don’t have the blueprint, they don’t…
Human rights groups want three-time world champion Nelson Piquet to pay about $1.86 million for allegedly causing moral damage to Black and LGBTQ people. SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge on Monday ordered an investigation be opened into allegations that retired Formula One driver Nelson Piquet used racist and homophobic slurs about Lewis Hamilton….
Source: Betty Blue / iOne Digital Almost a decade ago, I left my promising job in New York City to move to Ethiopia. Now I have a business, a husband, and a daughter in a world that did not quite raise me. Descending from Ethiopian roots and an upbringing overflowing with Habesha culture is a…
A man awaiting a hearing on charges related to a squabble over a mask mandate was denied medical care in a California jail leading to his death, according to a lawsuit obtained by the Atlanta Black Star. Court documents show Maurice Monk, 45, died after 35 days in Alameda County Santa Rita Jail from hypertensive…
A new study by two Dartmouth scientists aims to calculate how much climate-related loss richer countries have caused poorer nations. For decades, environmental activists along with some government officials and scientists have argued that rich countries should pay the most to address climate change, and even pay poor countries reparations, because industrialized nations have historically…
