OPINION: Sophia A. Nelson criticizes Rice’s comments on “The View” and says the former secretary of state should know better having grown up in the segregated south. There are few women walking this earth who I admire, intellectually and professionally, more than I do Condoleezza Rice. The first Black woman to serve as the White…
T.I. Harris apparently chose violence when he decided to prank his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris on Oct. 18. The fashion prank, which was a three-part video on Instagram, consisted of the rapper dressing nicely and trying to leave the house in hopes of seeing Tiny’s reaction. In the first recording before the joke, the 41-year-old…
Noble, the director of UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, googled “Black girls,” and pornography turned up first in her search. UCLA professor-scholar-author Safiya Noble is speaking out against how algorithms used in big tech are embedded with racism and sexism. There has been a major reckoning over the role social media companies play in…
Taraji P. Henson recently dropped a bombshell about her past experience with abuse. In a sneak peek for the upcoming episode of her Facebook Watch series, “Peace of Mind Taraji,” with co-host Tracie Jade and special guest Angela Simmons, the veteran actress opened up when she made the brave decision to leave an abusive relationship….
The film world, folks on social media and especially the actors, directors and staff on the film set of Rust, a movie being filmed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are currently grappling with an on-set tragedy after one of the movie’s stars, veteran actor and producer Alec Baldwin, fired a prop gun that killed one…
Mohamed Noor was initially convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond A Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape happening behind her home was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison — the most the…
Cliff Albright, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter, along with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and other voting rights advocates from across the country join to deliver a petition to the White House calling on President Biden to leverage the power of his office and publicly urge the Senate to end the filibuster and ensure lawmakers can…
The probe also found physical assaults, derogatory racial comments and harsher discipline for students of color at Davis School District A federal civil rights investigation released Thursday found widespread racial harassment of Black and Asian American students at a Utah school district, including hundreds of documented uses of the N-word and other racial epithets over…
The shots could begin in early November, with the first children in line fully protected by Christmas, if regulators give the go-ahead Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, according to study details released Friday as the U.S. considers opening vaccinations to…
Federal prosecutors are investigating a retired detective following allegations that he sexually exploited Black women, terrorized other Black residents and a slew of other misconduct, a recent report has uncovered. According to CNN, former Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department high-ranking detective Roger Golubski has been accused of sexual assault, retaliation and corruption. In one incident,…
