In the latest instance that police reform is sorely needed in this country, cops in Alabama said they arrested a Black woman simply because she was “burning incense” and “doing loud chanting” during a Christmas parade held in public last week. Kimberly Griggs suggested she had simply caught the holy spirit at the event, but…
A white man has been charged with assault and he and his mother are accused of racially profiling after an interaction lead to an altercation with a Black man who was working at a Tennessee parking garage. Johnny Martinez, who identified himself as Black in the video he recorded of the encounter, was checking cars…
50 Cent is paying it forward by helping the youth jump-start careers as thriving entrepreneurs. The rapper-entrepreneur launched his G Unity Business Lab this fall in partnership with the Houston Independent School District and Horizon Unity Group. On Dec. 5 he shared that 66 students from the inaugural class of 75 had secured jobs. 50…
Apryl Jones is out with the old and in with the new … man, that is. The “Love and Hip Hop” star was seen getting out of a vehicle with Taye Diggs and accompanying him to Jennifer Klein’s Christmas party. In photos and videos obtained by The Hollywood Fix, Diggs is seen extending his hand…
Source: sorbetto / Getty Continuing the fight against racist disinformation and digital equity, the Disinfo Defense League released a new policy platform demanding Congressional action reigning in Big Tech. Media Justice, Free Press Action, and the New Georgia Project were among the close to three dozen organizations that signed onto a new policy platform Tuesday afternoon. Acknowledging the disruption of organizing…
Back in the 1960s, 50 Black families were forcibly displaced from their homes in an area of Athens, Georgia, known as Linnentown. The descendants of those families are now seeking reparations and want to testify before Congress. “All hope was lost with the family separation, loss of property, and loss of community,” Hattie Thomas Whitehead,…
L.A. Reid is ready to see two of music’s royalty go round for round in a “Verzuz.” The record executive has played a role in shaping the careers of some of music’s biggest acts — Babyface, Usher, TLC to name a few — so he is no novice to developing star power. But when it…
Indeed will invest $3 million in the production of 10 short films from 10 BIPOC filmmakers Earlier this year, Lena Waithe and her Hillman Grad Productions partnered with jobs site Indeed for Rising Voices, an initiative that shared and invested in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and their stories. Today, Indeed announced…
The United States Justice Department has officially closed a three-year investigation into the death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy savagely murdered in Mississippi in 1955. Officials were unable to prove that one of the witnesses, pivotal to the case, lied in her testimony. Author, historian and college professor Timothy B. Tyson, in his book…
The circumstances surrounding the Chicago native’s death are unknown at this time. Former New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Glenn Foster Jr. died Monday while in police custody in Alabama. Foster Jr., 31, was arrested Sunday in Reform, Alabama, on charges of reckless endangerment and resisting arrest by “attempt to elude,” according to WWLTV. The charges…
