Like most, comedian Earthquake is weighing in on the scandal at the Oscars last month involving Academy Award winner Will Smith and Chris Rock. Things got physical between Smith and the “Good Hair” star after the latter made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head amid the actress’ battle with alopecia. This autoimmune disease…
Bridge signage wouldn’t change, but the words “foot soldier” would get separate marking, including silhouette art of the civil rights protesters. A new bill may soon extend the name of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser is reporting that the bill, which was approved this week by the Alabama Senate,…
Dozens of rapid-fire gunshots rang out early Sunday, leaving three women and three men dead. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A father of four. A best friend with a positive personality. A vivacious partygoer. The six people who were killed during a mass shooting in California’s capital city were remembered by their friends and family as police worked…
New bodycam video shows the final moments of life for Antwon Cooper, 34, after he was shot in the head by police minutes after he was pulled over for a traffic stop. The Miami man’s family says the newly released video shows he wasn’t armed. Miami police released bodycam and nearby surveillance video of a…
The five-time champion at Augusta National made the announcement Tuesday morning Tiger Woods says, for now anyway, he’s planning to play this week in the Masters, a little more than a year after nearly losing a leg in a car crash. The five-time champion at Augusta National made the announcement Tuesday morning. He will play…
The upset brought sudden exposure to the organizers and worker advocates who realized victory for the nascent Amazon Labor Union When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle. David won. And…
Senate Bill 258, the subject of a public hearing today, is modeled after the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. A public hearing will take place today in New Hampshire to discuss bipartisan legislation that would preserve, protect and restore the neglected historic gravesites of African Americans in the Granite State. According to a…
Source: RgStudio / Getty Meet Ralph Richard Banks. Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He’s also the co-founder and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice. Banks is also a Black man who appears to believe Black women are better off marrying white men because, in…
Smiley Martin has a criminal history dating to 2013. He was released on probation from prison in February. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man arrested in connection with the Sacramento shooting that killed six people was freed from prison weeks before and last year was rejected for earlier release after prosecutors argued he “clearly has…
After Patton’s viral cooking demo sent Black Twitter into an uproar, the actress posted a sweet response while on vacation in Mexico. You may be too scared to eat her chicken, but Paula Patton is likely a very gracious hostess. At least, that’s what one would surmise from the actress’ very sweet response to the…
