Source: David M. Benett / Getty Meet Miriam Zinter: The Black woman who could pass for white with her fair skin, blonde, wavy hair and blue eyes. Zinter is usually faced with uncomfortable comments from white people who don’t realize she’s actually Black. The 57-year-old woman wrote a think piece for the HuffPost about how…
Black students in a Texas high school are afraid to return to school after reading racist messages in a group chat from their white classmates. The school district promised to take immediate action, as one of the messages read “All N—s must hang.” According to the East Bernard Independent School District’s website, the thread was created…
Tina Knowles-Lawson, the former fashion designer and mother to Grammy award winners Beyoncé and Solange has some questions following actor Jussie Smollett‘s recent conviction. The former “Empire” star was found guilty of five out of six counts of felony disorderly conduct related to falsely reporting he’d been the victim of a hate crime. On Monday,…
The importance of the superstar Black quarterback in major college football can never be understated especially if that star is attending an HBCU. It’s the most important and most recognizable position in American team sports. This not only makes him an integral piece of his respective team but often it makes him a key part…
Source: Giles Clarke / Getty Nearly nine months after he was scheduled to be released, Bobby Sneed remains incarcerated. Louisiana parole officials refuse to release Sneed despite two separate court decisions ordering his release. Civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger tweeted a thread about Sneed’s case Monday, amplifying news of the latest injustice and highlighting the…
Mayor-elect Eric Adams praised Sewell as a “proven crime fighter with the experience and emotional intelligence to deliver both the safety New Yorkers need and the justice they deserve.” Keechant Sewell will become the next New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner, Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced on Tuesday — and she’ll be making history in the…
Several days have passed since a video went viral of Stevie J and his son Stevie J Jr. getting kicked off a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta on Friday, Dec. 10. On Monday, he spoke with TMZ in Los Angeles and explained his side of the story about being denied boarding…
Charles Sherman Neal, a former teacher at Boston Community Leadership Academy, was awarded $1.7 million on Dec. 7 by a Suffolk County jury that found that Boston schools retaliated against the Black male teacher for putting in numerous discrimination complaints. However, the jury disagreed with his claims of discrimination. In a lawsuit filed by his…
Tiffany Haddish revealed on Monday, Dec. 13, that she encountered a Common look-alike during her trip to Colombia nearly two weeks after the comedian and rapper called it quits. Haddish and Common, who met on the set of 2019 movie release “The Kitchen,” were together for over a year before reportedly going their separate ways…
The 37th annual award ceremony honoring Independent films will air March 6 on IFC. The 2020 social media-inspired film Zola leads the pack with seven nominations for the 2022 Independent Spirit Awards, as announced by Film Independent. Based on a 2015 viral Twitter thread that went viral, Zola is part crime film, part dark comedy…
