OPINION: Gov. Glenn Youngkin and other GOP leaders would do well to remember that Virginia is a deeply purple state and they do not have a mandate to run wild with far-right governance. When I first read it, I did not think it could be real. I thought, “this has to be a parody, right”? …

Leaders from one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations, politicians, and a major newspaper are speaking out against the use of the term “Latinx,” a gender-neutral term to describe people of Spanish-speaking origin. Many advocating the abandonment of the word’s use said that the term has been “imposed and it’s not organic.” Axios describes…

Source: Bob Levey / Getty Black NFL head coach David Culley was fired from the Houston Texans last week. He is the second NFL Black head coach in a week to be fired from the job. Under Culley, the Texans went 4-13 but played the entire season without star quarterback Deshaun Watson, who did not…

Harrison is best known for his Obie Award-winning play ‘The Great MacDaddy’ as well as his theoretical work A true titan of Black theater, playwright, director, and scholar Paul Carter Harrison has passed away. He was 85. Harrison’s death was reported by The New York Times over the weekend, with Harrison’s daughter Fonteyn Harrison confirming…

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her new book, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, with the Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida at a LA Times book club event on Nov. 30, 2021, in Los Angeles. | Source: Jason Armond / Getty For years now, perhaps even decades, white America has…

EXCLUSIVE: The Biden-Harris administration is still negotiating unilateral action on police reform, according to officials and stakeholders discussing next steps since Congress failed to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act As the nation watches on while Senate Democrats head into an improbable push on Tuesday to pass federal voting rights legislation, over at…

Blue Ivy Carter is once again being compared to her famous mom Beyoncé. Since the Carters are very private with their lives, every time a new photo drops of them, whether it be one that they put out or one that the paparazzi was able to capture, their fans go absolutely crazy. That’s exactly what…

Louisiana U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers. | Source: Chambers For Louisiana An upstart U.S. Senate candidate from Louisiana challenging a Republican incumbent is making the decriminalization of marijuana a central part of his platform in his first campaign ad. Gary Chambers, a progressive Democrat who identifies in part as a social justice activist and advocate,…

A South Florida police sergeant has been taken off the street after a video of him choking a fellow officer emerged last week. Sgt. Christopher Pullease has been relieved of his supervisory duties with the Sunrise, Florida, police department and is now under investigation after local news station WSVN, acting on a tip, began asking…

“You can’t just brush this under the rug and think that it’s going to just go away,” the burn victim’s mom said. “It’s not.” A 13-year-old student in Henrico County, Virginia, suffered second and third-degree burns last week when a schoolmate set his hair on fire in front of their entire middle-school class.  According to Fox…