The college’s 33rd president is also the first nonordained member of the church to preside over the Jesuit institution In the near 180-year history of the College of the Holy Cross, not one Black American had ever taken seat as president — until Vincent D. Rougeau was inaugurated on Friday, Oct. 22 in a landmark…
Source: Jemal Countess / Getty Women everywhere have been fighting decade after decade to stop people (i.e., men) from policing their bodies. Even the actual policewomen themselves are having a hard time with the issue. Chanel Dickerson, assistant police chief in Washington, D.C., came forth with a jaw-dropping claim of her own that as an…
Michael B. Jordan and Lori Harvey have become fan favorites in the couples category. Not only do they speak highly of each other all the time and she steals his clothes, but another thing that cements their cuteness is the nicknames that they have for each other. Harvey calls her man her “nugget” and Jordan…
The eatery where Saturday’s blast occurred is a normally busy place One person was killed and seven others injured Saturday in an explosion at a restaurant in a suburb of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, police said. Police said in a statement that a bomb squad had been deployed following “a serious blast” around 9 p.m. local…
The migrants walked along a highway leading west and north toward the U.S. border Over 2,000 migrants, mainly Central Americans, began walking out of a city in southern Mexico on Saturday where they have essentially been trapped. The migrants walked along a highway leading west and north toward the U.S. border, and pushed past a…
Several cast members coordinated a dramatic exit once the first and only Black RHONY star entered the room Eboni K. Williams, the first and only Black cast member on The Real Housewives of New York (RHONY), said she didn’t feel at home during a recent outing with her castmates on Tuesday. The 38-year-old lawyer said…
Source: Lorenzo Bevilaqua / Getty Leading daytime talk show “The View” continues to be a reckless platform with misinformed analysis and bad framings of important issues. In a recent episode featuring former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, the panel discusses critical race theory in the Virginia governor’s race. From Whoopi Goldberg’s opening framing about this being…
From the late Dwayne McDuffie who served as a writer and editor at Marvel to Black Panther World of Wakanda artist Afua Njoki Richardson, Black creators have tapped into the power of innovation to shape the landscape of the comic book industry. According to Variety, a new initiative has been launched to ensure that more…
After 23 Southwood High School students were arrested in three days, a group of local fathers stepped in and not a single incident has been reported since As violent altercations among students surged at a Shreveport, Louisiana high school, it seemed nobody — not police, campus security nor school officials — could keep the peace….
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced that Pinkney died Wednesday at age 81 after a brief, non-COVID related illness Jerry Pinkney, a prize-winning children’s book illustrator known for his richly textured images of Black life, fables and fairy tales in works ranging from “The Lion and the Mouse” to “The Sunday Outing,” has died….
