Jeffrey Thornton, a Black man, is suing an Illinois-based company for discrimination after claiming he was denied a job opportunity because of his natural hairstyle. The suit reportedly may be the first in California to cite the Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair law, otherwise known as the CROWN Act. Jeffrey Thornton…
Whitney Beatty and Ebony Andersen open Josephine and Billie’s to take advantage of the surging market in marijuana Josephine and Billie’s is a new cannabis retail space located near the heart of Black Los Angeles, founded by Whitney Beatty and Ebony Andersen. The space is curated specifically for and by Black women, to explore the…
Source: AJC / iOne Digital I‘m going to go ahead and start this report with a reminder that last week in Michigan, a white teenager fatally shot four children with the intent on killing more people and despite still holding a loaded gun, police officers were able to take him in without killing him….
Allan Ali and his newborn-holding partner, Kamia Hoilett, had a negative interaction with a flight attendant Sunday on Philly-bound plane. A Black family traveling with a newborn baby was kicked off an American Airlines flight on Sunday as they headed home to Philadelphia from Charlotte, North Carolina. They plan to take legal action. As seen in…
50 Cent‘s facial expression was the unexpected star of the show in a recent social media video of him and his longtime girlfriend Cuban Link cozying up to one another. The model, born Jamira Haines, shared a Boomerang video of herself and her multi-hyphenate boo cuddled up for a selfie in her Instagram Stories. (L-R):…
Hilda and Jesse in San Francisco turned away three on-duty officers because their guns made the staff feel “uncomfortable.” The backlash was swift against a San Francisco restaurant that asked a group of on-duty police officers to leave because their guns made the staff feel “uncomfortable.” They have since apologized. The incident occurred on Friday when…
Activist Shaun King recently revealed that his teenage daughter Kendi King is recovering after being hit by a car in Manhattan, New York. The 19-year-old reportedly suffered multiple serious injuries. King took to his Instagram page early Sunday morning, on Dec. 5, where he delivered the devastating news to his 3.7 million followers. According to…
Source: Natasha Moustache / Getty In 2018, the U.S. Justice Department reopened the investigation into the horrific lynching of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black child from Chicago who was tortured, killed and thrown in a river in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, by hopefully-burning-in-Hell white men Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who committed the heinous…
Source: Raymond Boyd / Getty It goes without saying that Black women can be considered the creators of what we call Black history, from literally birthing our African American icons to getting things done with their own bare hands. MORE: Missouri Man Exonerated After Serving 42 Years For A Crime He Didn’t Commit A portion…
A private memorial service for Abloh, the visionary fashion designer, was held Monday at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. A private memorial service for visionary fashion designer Virgil Abloh was held on Monday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Celebrities including Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Kid Cudi and…
