Marcus Bullock of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area is the founder of Flikshop, a mobile app for people to upload and send digital postcards with photos and messages that make their way to their loved ones currently incarcerated. “We’ve shipped over 700,000 postcards and connected over 170,000 families,” Bullock said. Bullock knows firsthand the impact…
Source: Bill Clark / Getty Congress moved one step closer to decriminalizing marijuana as the House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE Act). Led by members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the MORE Act would remove marijuana from the schedule of controlled substances. The bill does not legalize marijuana but is seen…
TikTok creator Bria Blake brought attention to the incident in a now-viral video calling the Black professor’s response “extremely unreasonable and dangerous.” Georgia State University is investigating reports of a Black professor calling the police on two Black students for coming to class two minutes late this week. As reported by NBC News, professor Carissa…
Two weeks after rapper 50 Cent announced he was standing behind comedian Mo’Nique, vowing to “put her back on” and talk to several movers and shakers in Hollywood to re-open doors for the Oscar-winning actress, she is set up for one of the biggest comebacks ever. As he does with many of his campaigns, he…
The 34-year-old producer spoke with The Associated Press about the relevance of winning a Grammy and how Pharrell Williams’ advice helped him. Hit-Boy won top Grammy rap honors with some of hip-hop’s biggest heavyweights — Jay-Z, Kanye West, known as Ye, and Nas — and now he is ascending into a new musical weight class…
While Black sociologists and historians applaud a new federal law that declares lynching a federal hate crime for its symbolism, they say more intentional reforms are needed. President Joe Biden signed the measure, dubbed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, on March 29. It requires a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and fines for…
“These men engaged in facilitating modern-day slavery,” U.S. Attorney David Estes said in a news release. Three men have been sentenced to federal prison as part of a broad investigation into what authorities said was a wide-ranging conspiracy to bring workers from Central America to the United States for forced labor on south Georgia farms….
“Make no mistake, yes, it is a racial justice bill,” Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif, says of marijuana bill Marijuana would be decriminalized at the federal level under legislation the House approved Friday as Democrats made the case for allowing states to set their own policies on pot. The bill is unlikely to become law since…
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” trailer for season 14 dropped on March 30, and the teaser was packed full of drama and surprises, including several blasts from seasons past and a fight between two cast members. The cast for season 14 of ” RHOA” includes Kandi Burruss, Kenya Moore, Shereé Whitfield, Drew Sidora and Marlo Hampton….
“Go, Mississippi,” takes its tune from a 1959 campaign jingle of Democratic Gov. Ross Barnett Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state flag. The current song, “Go, Mississippi,” takes its tune from a 1959 campaign jingle of Democratic Gov. Ross Barnett. “Roll With Ross” included the lyrics,…
