American writer and author Alex Haley (1921 – 1992), UK, 12th April 1977. (Photo by Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Hilaria McCarthy / Getty Images The Knox County school district first deemed “Roots” to be in violation of the state’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act. The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban…
Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black…
(Photo: Getty Images/Adobe Stock) “Higher mortgage rates and rising inflation are a one-two punch for Black households,” Cantrell Dumas of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, told theGrio. As Black households disproportionately feel the financial squeeze of President Donald Trump‘s economy, two economic measurements released this week indicate things aren’t getting better anytime…
Donald Trump may need to orchestrate a “happy wife, happy life” photo opportunity with Melania Trump. Three wives, two divorces, and a few bedroom scandals are all it took for Trump’s flip-flopping supporter Megyn Kelly to incite a brutal discussion about his troubled love life. Megyn Kelly has officially turned her back on Trump…
Pam Bondi spent years as one of Donald Trump’s most loyal defenders, operating at the center of some of the administration’s most controversial legal battles. Now the former attorney general is facing a threat that could strike at the foundation of her own career. More than 120 attorneys, law professors and former judges are asking…
Source: Michael Tullberg / Getty Rapper Young MC and Grammy-nominated singer Morris Day have officially withdrawn from President Trump’s Freedom 250 Festival in Washington, D.C., an event tied to the Great American State Fair celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary from June 25 through July 10, 2026. Meanwhile, C+ C Music Factory frontman Freedom Williams is…
Love is in the air and sparks are flying between actress Tia Mowry and her new beau. The 47-year-old is three years fresh off ending her 22-year marriage, and no one thought she’d ever find love again. But Mowry proved the world wrong by admitting she had a new man in her life who is…
Source: Robert Prange / Getty I’m writing to you, Naomi Osaka and Taylor Townsend, as a Black woman who has spent the bulk of my career doing all I can to carve out spaces where Black people and stories get told and elevated. Along the way, I’ve come to understand something that aligns with the…
President Donald Trump will turn 80 on June 14, and everyone knows that he loves a party in his honor. Trump previously threw a bizarre “Great Gatsby”-themed birthday party at Mar-a-Lago complete with gold ballrooms, flapper costumes, and scantily clad performers. Now the over-the-top spectacle is facing fresh chaos as multiple artists claim they were blindsided…
(Photo: Getty Images) A decades-old child death case was reopened after the victim’s brother told investigators the girl’s fatal burns were not accidental.your subheader copy A woman in the United Kingdom has been convicted in a reopened 1978 child death cold case involving the death of her 5-year-old stepdaughter more than four decades ago. According…
