Source: Sean Rayford / Getty In today’s episode of Inventing Herschel, it turns out GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has been out here boasting about what a great businessman he is while, in reality, his businesses have not been paying back loans, he’s been exaggerating about how many people he’s employed and his businesses have…
NAACP advocates are calling for diversity and equity training in an Arkansas school district after a middle schooler was taunted with racial epithets as she boarded a school bus. Seventh-grader Alyssa Shaw was racially bullied on a Lavaca Middle School bus in Lavaca, Arkansas. (Screenshot via 40/29 News) Alyssa Shaw’s mother, Becky Burris, has pulled…
The unemployment rates reportedly went down for many demographic groups in America. But not so for Black women. The unemployment rate for Black women in America appears to be on the rise. The unemployment rate for Americans is going down, but for Black women, it’s going up. CNBC recently reported unemployment rates for Black women…
Source: EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI / Getty Racism is like cancer, ignore it long enough and it will corrupt everything around you including the minds of those it was intended to discriminate against. A growing number of U.S Latinos are buying into the far-right, white nationalist narrative that’s seeped in hate and contradicts many aspects of…
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till will be the subject of a new opera set to debut this spring. Many people are upset about the production, asking “how could the story authentically be told through a white woman’s eyes?” According to Playbill, producers of “Emmett Till, A New American Opera,” are set to have the show’s world premiere at…
A mountain of medical debt is keeping Black-owned businesses across the nation from thriving, according to new research published earlier this month. Black business owners face greater financial challenges along with greater financial barriers to health care, a survey of 4,000 business owners, employees and self-employed workers from Intuit QuickBooks found. About 40 percent of…
Actress Tia Mowry has fans of “The Game” losing their minds after she posted pictures on Instagram with a caption hinting a possible appearance on the reboot. Pooch Hall (L), Tia Mowry (C) and Wendy Raquel Robinson (R) reunite on Instagram in a post from March 10, 2022. Mowry posted photographs that show her posing…
Wesley Snipes, Lady Gaga and others also set to present at Oscars, which will air later this month on ABC. The Oscars are just around the corner, and weeks ahead of the biggest night in film, the Academy has announced who will join the televised ceremony as presenters, many of them former winners themselves. The…
Source: Jason Davis / Getty If the incident in which Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was detained by the police at Bank of America for trying to make a legal withdrawal has taught us nothing else, it has reminded us of the existence of the rare-but-hazardous Black Karen. As we reported, the bank teller who…
New York Mayor Eric Adams and the New York Police Department are under fire after a Bronx judge found inconsistencies in a police officer’s recount of a drill rapper’s arrest that ended with a suspect and an officer shot this year. New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed a judge ruling to tried a teen…
