Gabrielle Union‘s hair became a topic of conversation on Thursday, Jan. 13, after the actress showcased the significant amount of growth she experienced since her big chop last year. In the natural hair community, the term big chop means cutting off relaxed or chemically processed hair to reveal the natural texture. Gabrielle Union’s fans rave…
Whether it’s through her television and film projects or social impact initiatives designed to support Black-owned businesses, producer and actress Issa Rae has continually used her platform to amplify the importance of representation. Her latest project will be centered on supporting independent music artists and diversifying the music industry, Billboard reported. .@IssaRae‘s Raedio label is…
“HONK IF YOU HATE N*GGERS,” the sign read on Saturday in Sumter, South Carolina Police are on a search in South Carolina for the person who tampered with an electronic road sign, changing its text to display a racial slur. The text on the sign, set up in the city of Sumter, was altered to…
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty As the Senate prepares for a showdown over the filibuster and passing needed voting rights reform, Martin Luther King Jr.’s son has just one question for Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, “Can you hear us? End the filibuster and give us the ballot!” Martin Luther King III joined Arizona residents and…
“Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America” is a documentary based on a lecture delivered by criminal defense lawyer Jeffery Robinson “If you’ve ever owned a slave, please raise your hand,” Jeffery Robinson asks a live audience at the beginning of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, a searing documentary based on…
A school district is under fire after allegations of racial slurs being directed at players on the court during a girls basketball game in Barnegat, New Jersey, this week. Michael Inzelbuch, a lawyer for the Lakewood Board of Education, told the Washington Post that one of the student-athletes claimed she was called a “Black b-tch”…
Winter storm warning covers parts of more than a dozen states Forecasts of snow and ice as far south as Georgia have put a big part of the Southeast on an emergency preparedness footing as shoppers scoured store shelves for storm supplies and crews raced to treat highways and roads as a major winter storm…
It’s been around three weeks since news broke that Kanye West purchased a house right across the street from his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, in Calabasas, California. When the story was released it was explained that West’s reasoning for moving closer to Kardashian was so that way he could be closer to their four children….
Nursing homes saw a sevenfold increase in COVID cases from a month ago COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too, leading to new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members vaccinated and boosted. Nursing homes…
Keita’s death comes as the West African nation faces a deepening political crisis Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the former president of Mali who took office in a landmark election held after a destabilizing coup only to be ousted in another military takeover nearly seven years later, has died. He was 76. Keita, known to Malians by…
