In 2015, a Democratic policy adviser was fired from the Arizona Senate after sending emails to her supervisors expressing that she was being paid less than her white male counterparts because of her race and gender. After a court determined that Talonya Adams was wrongfully terminated, one of the persons responsible for her getting axed…

Byer commented on Love’s Instagram post, writing: “Thank you for thinking for me and posting and having so many people check out my special.” Actor-comedian Faizon Love is getting some serious pushback for his criticism of the new Netflix stand-up comedy special from Nicole Byer.  Nicole Byer: Big Beautiful Weirdo debuted last week on the…

The group’s eldest brother passed away just days shy of his 80th birthday — and a Tavares concert where they’d celebrate it. The eldest member of the family R&B group Tavares has died.  Ralph Tavares passed away on Dec. 8, just two days shy of his 80th birthday, according to Black America Web.  The Grammy Award-winning…

House Coronavirus Subcommittee Chairman James E. Clyburn, (D-SC) speaks during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on November 17, 2021, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Amid speculation about the future of the highest levels of leadership within the Democratic Party, Capitol Hill mainstay and high-ranking Congressman and House Majority…

Georgia Republican primary elections in 2022 are sure to be a white nationalist circus of ultra-MAGA proportions. David Perdue is still licking his wounds from his U.S. Senate loss last year, but that hasn’t stopped him from gunning for Gov. Brian Kemp’s office—which is basically like Skeletor throwing hands with a low-level Decepticon—and it looks…

Damson Idris is taking his “sorry to that man” moment in stride after remaining largely unknown to one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.  The “Snowfall” star caught wind of veteran actor Denzel Washington’s response when asked about the budding star while on the red carpet for the premiere of “A Journal for Jordan.” When Washington, 66,…

The trial of Daunte Wright, a Black man fatally shot by a former Minnesota police officer who mistook her Taser for a gun during a traffic stop has just turned a new corner after a rookie cop on the scene testified that claims Wright reached for a weapon or made any threatening moves against shooting…

The Jamaican music legend helped pioneer “electro reggae,” a fusion of reggae and electronic music in the 1980s. Garth Dennis, the Jamaican music legend credited among the architects of “electro reggae,” a fusion of reggae and electronic music conveyed by his world-renowned band Black Uhuru, has died. He was 72. His death was announced on Saturday…

Gabrielle Union took to Instagram on Sunday, Dec. 12, and disclosed the one activity that helped her get through a “rough week,” which involved her daughter Kaavia James Union Wade. Although the 49-year-old didn’t share what challenges she encountered in the post, Union did explain why coloring with the toddler made all her worries fade…

OPINION: Taurean came through with that “I got you” energy on 100! Credit: Screenshot/HBO Max I’ll be the first to admit that when Molly and Taurean held that hug for a second too long during the conference trip, I knew exactly what the Insecure writers were up to, and I wasn’t feeling it.  If I’m…