The issues in Selma defy simple solutions Fewer and fewer people are voting in Selma, Alabama. And to many, that is particularly heartbreaking. They lament that almost six decades after Black demonstrators on the city’s Edmond Pettus Bridge risked their lives for the right to cast ballots, voting in predominantly Black Selma and surrounding Dallas…
“Thousands of Black players stand to benefit from these changes to the settlement,” lawyer Cyril V. Smith says Black retired football players who were denied payments for dementia in the NFL’s $1 billion concussion settlement can seek to be retested or have their claims rescored to eliminate racial bias in the testing and payout formula,…
OPINION: Tucker Carlson’s request for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score is typical of the racism and misogyny she will face from the right. In Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden took a moment to acknowledge the recent nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, describing her as…
Source: Ed Rode / Getty On a recent segment of The View, The Nation’s Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal shared a feeling many Black people share about the constitution. ‘The Constitution is kind of trash,” Mystal said. Six simple words carry the weight and fire of those who spent generations trying to push through…
Erykah Badu took a moment to show off her new haircut, but fans couldn’t get over how much she resembled her 17-year-old daughter, Puma Sabti Curry. In a video shared on Wednesday, March 2, the 51-year-old mother can be seen makeup-less while showing off her cute ponytail and bang over her eye. 51-year-old Erykah Badu…
It’s hard to imagine that it’ll be almost one year since the hip-hop community lost Grammy-nominated rapper and actor DMX. While for many, the 50-year-old’s death marked a massive void in the music world, for the Mount Vernon native’s fiancée, Desiree Lindstrom, it signified the day her life altered entirely and the start of a…
The list of twelve extraordinary women honored by Time magazine for 2022 includes an ample amount of Black excellence. “When you speak your truth, things happen,” Allyson Felix, one of TIME’s 2022 Women of the Year told the magazine, adding: “You draw power from one another.” (l-r) Allyson Felix, Amanda Gorman and Mj Rodriguez Photos: Getty…
Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri is responsible for the careers of several very successful musical artists after signing them to his record label So So Def in 1993. Acts included Kriss Kross, Dem Franchize Boyz, Anthony Hamilton, and more. However, the music executive recently took to his Instagram account on Thursday, March 3, and revealed two…
EXCLUSIVE: According to a report, Black women represent only 1.7% of the tech industry’s labor force. Black women are leading the charge on the revolution to increase representation in the technology sector. Latoya Elder and Sherrell Dorsey have developed mentorship programs and literary resources to help Black job seekers who want to pursue tech jobs…
When it comes to a journalist, judge or others accomplishing their goals, some seem to be sickened by Black brilliance. Quite often I find myself missing ABC’s Scandal. The political drama starring Kerry Washington revolutionized how we watched television and caused many of us to side-eye everything about the United States government. Yet, it was…
