Source: Reginald Cunningham / Reginald Cunningham Black Voters Matter (BVM), a voting rights organization, is going on a bus tour and organizing an exciting campaign to educate and empower Black voters ahead of the 2024 election season. On Jan. 16, BVM announced the “We Fight Back” campaign, a bus tour and three-day conference that will…
Newly released information provides more insight into what led to the death of Christine Fields, a 30-year-old Black woman who died after giving birth at a Brooklyn, New York, hospital last year. Fields passed away in mid-November after undergoing a cesarean section at Woodhull Medical Center. While there, the mother of three went into a medical crisis,…
Authorities in the United Kingdom claim that no racism occurred in the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly pushed into a river. Christopher Kapessa died on July 1, 2019, in Fernhill, South Wales. According to the BBC, Christopher drowned after he was pushed into the River Cynon in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales,…
From right, Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Katie Porter, D-Calif., Democratic candidates for California Senate, participate in the National Union of Healthcare Workers Senate Candidate Forum in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on October 8, 2023. | Source: Tom Williams / Getty U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee was among the California Senate candidates who…
A Black American raised in Europe has gone viral after sharing his experience about being Black in Poland during the popular “Of Course” trend video. While he and his two lady friends thought the gag would be funny, many on the X platform blasted him for staying in a place where he experiences racism. Black…
Florida Congressman Byron Donalds added his voice to a chorus of Republican officials calling for the resignation of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis amid claims suggesting her involvement in a secret love affair with Nathan Wade, the private attorney she hired to prosecute former President Donald Trump on state racketeering charges. Donalds issued a…
Source: Dmitry Vinogradov / Getty A Texas superintendent is defending the decision to suspend a Black student over his locs hairstyle in a Houston Chronicle newspaper ad. According to The Messenger, Barbers Hill ISD superintendent Greg Poole defended the school district’s position to repeatedly suspend Darryl George for how he wore his locs. “being an…
Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph has been married for 19 years to Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Hughes. The “Abbott Elementary” star lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where the show is filmed despite its portrayal as being in Philadelphia. While the couple is enjoying their bi-coastal marriage, many are wondering how they keep it…
The city of Long Beach, California, settled a lawsuit and is reportedly set to pay a prostate cancer patient hundreds of thousands after he alleged police officers struck him in the groin a day after he had surgery. As a lawsuit filed last year explained, resident Johnny Jackson was returning home from a run to…
Soul music legends Sam Cooke and Bobby Womack have a complex past that many are unfamiliar with. Like many men before them, the source of their drama involved a woman. As a pre-teen touring with The Womack Brothers, Bobby Womack met Sam Cooke, becoming the mentee of the seasoned soul singer and entrepreneur. Cooke, impressed…
