OPINION: Come election time, if Black people can’t win, then neither should candidates who only deliver empty promises. Racism doesn’t always show up with tiki torches and epithets; more often it manifests as disregard. Black voters ostensibly matter during political campaigns, but once in office, more often than not, politicians devalue the Black labor, input…
Rural Lincoln County, Georgia, is in the crosshairs of voting rights advocates because its local elections officials are considering closing all but one of its voting precincts. Republican-leaning Lincoln County, which is about 50 miles northwest of Augusta, Georgia, the has roughly 7,700 residents with 29 percent of its population being Black, 68 percent white….
EXCLUSIVE: “It’s about education, not only for customers, about the history, but also for the students,” says Getty Images’ Cassandra Illidge. Getty Images is awarding four historically Black colleges and universities — Claflin University, Jackson State, North Carolina Central University and Prairie View A&M University — a $500,000 grant to digitize their archival photographic libraries. …
Source: Yuanshuai Si / Getty Young black people love them some Atlanta. I’ve heard it called the Mecca for young black professionals. Believe it or not, there have even been comparisons to the fictional city of Wakanda. There is no question Atlanta is a bustling city. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in America….
Source: Fulton County Government / Youtube Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took one more step closer to bringing charges against Donald Trump and his acolytes for alleged interference in the Georgia 2020 election. Willis has been steadily building a case over the past year, giving Trump more consideration than a Republican Secretary of State…
On “Hannity” Monday night, Peter Doocy described how Biden personally called him later and “cleared the air.” At the end of a press conference Monday night, President Joe Biden was peppered with questions from White House reporters, including one from Peter Doocy of Fox News Channel. Doocy asked the president if inflation would be a…
Well before hip-hop mogul and all around multi-hyphenate Sean ‘P Diddy” Combs would step into acting opportunities in films such as “A Raisin in the Sun” and Monster’s Ball,” he reportedly had his eyes set on another role — that of the lead in the 1992 hit movie “Juice.” According to Ralph McDaniels, the founder…
As the world prepares for the new A&E documentary, “Janet,” a two-part, four-hour glimpse into the life of the music’s first Black pop princess Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri reflects on a warning his “Pleasure Principle” girlfriend gave him when they were dating. The So So Def music mogul did a recent interview on “Ryan Cameron…
The white man in Connecticut who starred in a viral video that showed him using racist language while violently attacking teenage smoothie shop workers over the contents of a smoothie also threaded to kill them “multiple times,” according to one of the employees. Two of the three young workers at a Robeks shop in Fairfield…
An ex-cop from Seattle is suing the city’s police department for terminating him after he punched a handcuffed woman in the face in 2014. The Black man claims he tried to de-escalate a dispute, but since he couldn’t, he responded with the level of force to which he’d been trained. He finds race and revenge…
