Memebers of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club parade down St. Charles Avenue on Mardi Gras Day on March 5, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Source: Sean Gardner / Getty UPDATED: 11:00 a.m. ET, Feb. 12, 2024 Mardi Gras, which means Fat Tuesday in French, is largely associated with New Orleans in the…
After the United States Embassy in Colombia warned last month of recent suspicious drug-related deaths and possible homicides of Americans visiting the South American country, three U.S. tourists have reportedly died in Medellín within a five-day span. One of them, a 47-year-old Black man named Dakarai Earl Cobb, had been staying in a room in…
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith officially reported a burglary in her Los Angeles home last week. With this report, she joins a growing list of celebrities whose homes have recently been targeted by criminals seeking to profit from high-profile burglaries. Jada Pinkett Smith reportedly scared off burglars who attempted to break into her home in Los…
A free mobile testing center in Los Angeles offered by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the Magic Johnson Foundation provides HIV testing and education in minority communities of Los Angeles. | Source: ROBYN BECK / Getty Over the past 20 years, people living with HIV in the United States have seen a drastic improvement in…
A racist video posted by a middle school student in Kentucky has prompted parents to speak out about the unchecked racism that Black students have had to grapple with for years at that school. Ashley White told local news outlets that her daughter has been bullied in-person and online by kids at College View Middle…
Rap purists were livid after seeing white hip-hop chart-topper Post Malone singing “America the Beautiful” at the 2024 Super Bowl. They claimed he was code-switching, abandoning Black culture that put him on the map and aligning himself with white mainstream America. During the live broadcast, The Roots founder Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson took to the X…
A video showing a group of girls at Sephora applying darker shades of makeup to their faces to do blackface is leaving many viewers online disgusted by their actions. The video shows three teenage girls walking around the store, painting their faces with darker makeup shades. One white teen with dark brown makeup on her…
Comedian David Lucas has gone viral after he made a crude joke about George Floyd at one of his recent shows at the Funny Bone in Kansas City, Missouri. The Macon, Georgia, native started out by performing a highly volatile show that said he would have never kneeled on the neck of the Black man,…
From left: Ahmaud Arbery’s convicted murderers: Gregory McMichael, William “Roddie” Bryan, Travis McMichael. | Source: Glynn County Sheriff’s Office What does Spider-Man do when he sees someone commit a crime and there are no police officers around to help? He swings in, wraps the wrongdoer in his web and leaves them hanging from a telephone…
Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty Comedian David Lucas is stirring up controversy with his latest stand-up comedy bit. During a performance at the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Manchester, Connecticut, comedian David Lucas angered a few Black audience members when he made an insensitive remark about the 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of…
