The $1,190 sweatpants have caused a stir on social media, with many critics labeling the design as a form of gentrification Between lofty prices and notoriously unorthodox designs, Balenciaga garments have raised many an eyebrow in the past — at times for adverse reasons. Now, critics are calling an item from its recent collection “racist.”…
At a church in Atlanta, two workers with plenty of vaccine doses waited hours Wednesday for anyone to show up Several hundred people line up every morning, starting before dawn, on a grassy area outside Nairobi’s largest hospital hoping to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Sometimes the line moves smoothly, while on other days, the staff…
Source: Tom Williams / Getty Twenty years after 9/11 and the surveillance apparatus continues to traumatize Black and other communities of color. I remember in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 thinking about the movie “The Siege.” It was a favorite in our household. What Denzel movie isn’t? Released three years before 9/11, Denzel Washington’s…
The family of a Black Florida man who died in 2019 after being tased by Ocoee and Windermere police officers after they were called because he was suffering a mental health crisis said Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell denied their request for a new investigation on Aug. 31, reneging on promises they claim she made…
Source: Jeff Greenberg / Getty UPDATED: 3:50 p.m. ET, Sept. 11: A fourth person has been charged in an alleged elaborate scheme to steal the identities of people who died in the condo towers that collapsed in south Florida in June. Three others had previously been arrested and charged for their alleged roles in the…
There is no question though, that Warwick was and is an essential icon There was a point in time just this year when Dionne Warwick was poised to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. At 80-years-young, she even kickstarted her Twitter account again where she instantly appealed to millennials a fraction…
People picking apples at an apple orchard in Milton, Ontario, Canada, on Sept. 20, 2020. | Source: NurPhoto / Getty An apple orchard in suburban Boston is offering a suspected hollow apology for a definite case of racial profiling during a holiday outing that a Black family said was meant to end the summer on…
Danielson had been with his friend Chandler Pappas and both were wearing Patriot Prayer hats, signifying their support of the right-wing group based in Vancouver The estate of a man fatally shot in downtown Portland after a pro-Trump car rally last year is suing the city, the mayor and the county district attorney, saying their…
The victim claims that in addition to being sexually assaulted by Bambaataa, he was also sent to different locations to have sex with adult men while Bambaataa watched Afrika Bambaataa, a legendary hip-hiop pioneer, has been sued by a man who claims he was sexually abused and prostituted by him as a minor. The victim,…
More Black parents have chosen to home-school their children since the pandemic began. Many of those parents, as well as experts, cite the desire to have culturally competent curricula centered on Black culture and avoid racism as reasons so many have opted to keep their Black children at home. Queen Taese is riding the wave…
