Rosa Parks is one of the most recognizable civil rights movement figures after she bravely refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white man in 1955. Recently a white woman channeled her inner-Ms. Parks when she refused to sit down on a Delta Air Lines flight. Former actress…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Hannah-Jones said she’s clear-eyed about forcing a reckoning around America’s self-image. NEW YORK (AP) — Following a year of professional milestones born of her work on America’s history of slavery, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image. The…
A girl stops and checks the flowers at the Sol Tribe tattoo shop on Broadway in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, December 28, 2021. | Source: Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty The prime suspect in a deadly mass shooting in and around Denver has been widely described on social media as…
Now that it’s been a few years since she initially opened up about her struggles with alopecia, Jada Pinkett Smith has been feeling more comfortable with talking about what else she’s had to endure with the hair loss condition. She posted a video on Instagram on Dec. 28, seemingly in good spirits, and laughing about…
Source: Boston Globe / Getty The former minority leader of the Rhode Island legislature seems desperate for attention on social media. Legislator Karen, also known as Republican Rep. Patricia Morgan, claims her “Black friend” suddenly acts hostile and unpleasant. So instead of talking to the alleged Black friend, Morgan decides she should tweet about it…
T.I. took social media by storm on Dec. 22 after uploading an Instagram Story showcasing the newest feature in his bathroom. This washroom appears to be in his new Atlanta home. According to TMZ, the rapper purchased the seven-bedroom, ten-bathroom estate late last year for about $3.27 million. Despite the 2020 purchase of the 14,000…
Patricia Cornwall physically attacked another passenger and invoked the name of a civil rights icon in a dispute over seating and mask-wearing A pre-Christmas flight got dicey when a woman now dubbed ‘Airline Karen’ got into an altercation with another passenger. The ATL Uncensored Twitter account posted a nearly two-minute video of a woman standing…
The combative former boxer-turned-lawyer was widely-acknowledged as one of toughest dealmakers in Congress Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. The combative former boxer-turned-lawyer was widely-acknowledged as one of toughest dealmakers in Congress, a conservative Democrat in an increasingly polarized chamber who vexed lawmakers…
Faizon Love will forever be known for his iconic role as Big Worm from the cult classic film “Friday.” The comedian has popped up in several other films and television shows since the 1995 blockbuster helmed by rapper-actor Ice Cube debuted, but none have had quite the lasting impression. Yet despite delivering memorable one-liners in…
Living legend Nichelle Nichols celebrated her 89th birthday on Tuesday, Dec. 28. Fifty-five years after the debut of “Star Trek: The Original Series,” Nichols continues to touch the hearts and minds of generations. It would be an understatement to say Nichols’ Lt. Uhura, later given the first name Nyota, inspired generations of actors and sci-fi…
