NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 19: The Roots perform with guest singer Jaguar Wright at an Entertainment Weekly hosted party at the Canal Room November 19, 2003 in New York City. The regular lead singer of the Roots (Black Thought) did not perform tonight due to his receiving root canal work. (Photo by Matthew Peyton/Getty Images)…
Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty At 12 years old, I received a five-year supply of white privilege. It all began when my fifth-grade teacher informed me that I needed to meet my mother in the principal’s office. I was homeschooled until I was 11, but I heard rumors about this notorious place where the worst…
Petterly Jean-Baptiste, center, an immigrant from Haiti, registers Nov. 16, 2023, with the Immigrant Family Services Institute, in Boston, while waiting with his family for transportation to a shelter, in Quincy, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) People with the protection are reliant on the government renewing their status when it expires. The Trump administration is…
The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen. May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) The IRS layoffs, one of the largest purges this year across the government, could also hurt customer service and tax return processing. The layoffs of roughly 7,000 IRS probationary workers beginning this week likely mean the end of…
Indiana police claim they repeatedly punched, kicked and tasered a 38-year-old Black man in a Walmart parking lot on Tuesday because he had attacked them first. But police in the Indianapolis suburb of Lawrence still have not released body camera footage supporting that claim. As of now, the only videos that have surfaced were recorded…
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama reacts after a missed a free throw during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) Victor Wembanyama from France was averaging 24.3 points, 11 rebounds, 3.8 blocks and 3.7 assists this season. Victor…
DarNisha Hardaway poses with her son Joseph, 12, at home in Detroit, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) As Trump began to reshape the Education Department, investigations and mediations around disability rights issues came to a standstill. It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators…
During an interview Wednesday on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show, the go-to place for wild assertions certain to go unchecked, Elon Musk and Donald Trump claimed former President Joe Biden “deliberately stranded” NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s mission aboard the International Space Station. It’s a bogus claim, one that’s been repeated across…
President Donald Trump speaks at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Pool via AP) The ruling comes as thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door since Trump took office. A federal judge in Washington has allowed President Donald Trump’s mass firings of federal workers to…
A resurfaced clip from Shark Tank’s first season has social media buzzing, as FUBU founder Daymond John and investor Kevin O’Leary delivered a harsh takedown of an entrepreneur they believed was misleading them. The episode, which aired in October 2009, featured Danon Beres, the CEO of fashion accessory brand Washed Up Hollywood, who confidently entered…
