Protestors gather at Rikers Island, operated by the New York City Department of Correction, demanding its closure. Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty When off-duty corrections officer Dion Middleton killed 18-year-old Raymond Chaluisant, the New York City Department of Correction’s culture of violence and depraved indifference to the lives of Black and Brown New Yorkers spilled…

Getting a verse from legendary rapper Sean “Jay-Z” Carter is a goal many artists in hip-hop strive for but only a few have achieved. Recently actor and musician Idris Elba revealed just how he managed to land on the New York native’s tenth studio album, “American Gangster,” inspired by the film by the same name. …

A few weeks ago, Ciara revealed that her husband, Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson was attending his first day of training camp while sharing a dedication post. Fast forward to Aug.8, when Ciara uploaded an Instagram video, giving her followers a glimpse of the activities she partakes in during training camp. Ciara’s training camp video…

Halle Berry debuted a new hair color over the weekend, posting two selfies featuring her naturally curly hair. For the past few weeks, the Oscar-winning actress has been rocking a short asymmetrical haircut with the back shaved underneath. Fans did a double take after noticing she recently dyed her hair from platinum blonde to a…

Source: Megan Varner / Getty Booooy, sometimes it be your own people. This is a story about Herschel Walker, so by “your own people,” I certainly don’t mean Black people as Walker, at this point, falls deep into the sunken place corners of the “all skin folk ain’t kinfolk” category. Walker’s “people” are Republicans, and…

Even after the discovery of an arrest warrant and an unpublished memoir, the woman behind Emmett Till‘s lynching has yet again avoided prosecution. A grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who accused Emmett of making a pass at her in 1955, in Mississippi during the Jim Crow Era. Leflore…

Will the real Toni Braxton please stand up?  Fans were amazed this week after the Grammy Award-winning singer’s younger sibling Tamar Braxton took to her TikTok page, where she gave an eerily good impersonation of the “Breathe Again” singer’s signature contralto voice. ATLANTA, GA – SEPTEMBER 01: (L-R) Tamar Braxton and Toni Braxton attend the…

Source: Handout / Getty It’s almost as if ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin‘s racism spread like—dammit, I’m just going to say it—monkeypox and it followed him everywhere he went before he was finally convicted and sentenced for murdering George Floyd. Either that or there’s just a lot of racism in Minneapolis law enforcement—from the department…

It’s an end of an era. Angela Yee announced on Aug. 10 that she is officially leaving “The Breakfast Club” after 12 years to launch her own daily show. “The Breakfast Club,” which began in 2010, became a staple in the hip-hop community and helped catapult the careers of its co-hosts, including Yee, Charlamagne Tha God,…