A Black father says officials at a suburban Kansas City, Missouri, water park canceled his son’s birthday party reservation because of their race. Chris Evans said he agreed to a contract of about $2,000 to host the party for up to 250 teenagers on Saturday at the Summit Waves Aquatic Facility in Lee’s Summit, Missouri,…
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Even after the discovery of an arrest warrant and an unpublished memoir, the woman behind Emmett Till‘s lynching has yet again avoided prosecution.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,…
The fate of a historical marker remembering a Black man lynched in Mobile, Alabama, hangs in the balance as a controversy about whether it should go up at all causes an uproar. Mobile is in the midst of recognizing its racist past, and its latest project, installing a historical marker memorializing Richard Robertson, a Black…
Source: LeoPatrizi / Getty Postpartum depression impacts 1 in 8 women across the United States. PPD, also known as perinatal depression is a mood disorder that can occur after giving birth. Many women experience debilitating symptoms like anxiety, fear, and hopelessness after childbirth. Sometimes, PPD can impact the way a mother bonds with her…
