Usher talks on stage during the Super Bowl LVIII Pregame and Halftime Show Press Conference on Feb. 8, 2024, at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty We are just days away from Usher’s Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show performance, and fans are eager to see what the Grammy…
After the University of Pennsylvania announced the reburial of the 19 Black people whose bones were used for racist scientific research, the community criticized officials at the Philadelphia school for their lack of involvement in the decision. Spearheaded by physician Samuel George Morton in the 1830s, The Associated Press reported that the remains linked his study to…
Former Republican nominee for New York City Mayor and founder of nonprofit volunteer public safety organization Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, joins protesters at John Paul Jones Park opposing the New York City Council’s plan to open migrant shelters in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on October 3, 2023. | Source: Anadolu /…
Comedian D.L. Hughley has responded after Mo’Nique’s scathing interview with Shannon Sharpe, where she unleashed explosive remarks about what led to their fallout years ago. D.L. Hughley (L) and Mo’Nique (R). Photo by Rodrigo Vaz/FilmMagic, Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images Mo’Nique said he felt disrespected after appearing on a past interview on Hughley’s radio show, where…
Black travelers want to see the travel industry embrace their full identities. AzmanL/ Getty After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, when travel brands – including Delta Air Lines, Hilton and Enterprise – pronounced their support for diversity and the Black Lives Matter movement, our research group was motivated to conduct a study that…
News broke about yet another prison inmate in Alabama whose remains were returned to his family missing major organs, revealing a bizarre pattern of mistreatment happening within the state’s prison system. Kelvin Moore died at the Limestone Correctional Facility on July 21, 2023, from a fentanyl overdose at age 43. Before authorities returned his body…
Bronx bombshell Jennifer Lopez is gearing up to drop her ninth studio album, “This Is Me … Now,” and has released a single with two of hip-hop’s most exciting rappers, Latto and Redman. One of the first live performances of the new song, “Can’t Get Enough,” was her Feb. 3 presentation on “Saturday Night Live.”…
D.L. Hughley performs at The Stress Factory Comedy Club on January 21, 2022, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. | Source: Bobby Bank / Getty You have to give it to Shannon Sharpe, y’all—the ex-ESPN commentator might just have stumbled upon the Holy Grail of messy, juicy, gossipy, drama-driven Black entertainment with his podcast Club Shay…
After being accused of discriminatory lending practices, one of the largest banks in the United States has agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve allegations that it redlined predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods located in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the state of North Carolina and the U.S. Justice Department announced. Between 2017 and 2021,…
After being accused of discriminatory lending practices, one of the largest banks in the United States has agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve allegations that it redlined predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods located in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the state of North Carolina and the U.S. Justice Department announced. Between 2017 and 2021,…
