Josephine Baker’s honor is meant to send a message against racism and celebrate U.S.-French connections France is inducting Josephine Baker — Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy and civil rights activist — into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France’s most revered luminaries. On Tuesday, a…
Alfonso Ribeiro has always been supportive of his friend and former co-star Will Smith‘s career, but Ribeiro admitted that he may never crack the cover of the “Aladdin” star’s recently released memoir. The Smith family’s personal details that have come to light between Will’s self-titled memoir and Jada’s “Red Table Talk” series have kept their…
Radio personality Ebro is under fire after an old video of him making a bigoted statement about singer Tinashe’s last name resurfaced on the internet. His remarks were racialized in two different ways. First, he said that she was too light to have such a ghetto name, and then he implied that her multisyllabic African…
Culp announced this month that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer Curley Culp, the Hall of Fame defensive lineman who helped the Kansas City Chiefs win their first Super Bowl during a 14-year NFL career, died Saturday of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 75. Culp announced this month that he had been…
The series follows Derrica and Natalie Wilson, founders of the “Black and Missing Foundation.“ A new HBO docuseries highlighting racial disparities in missing persons cases across the country is receiving praise on Twitter for bringing attention to an issue many say is oft-overlooked. The four-part series Black and Missing is a joint effort from Emmy-winner…
Source: New York Daily News / Getty In recent coverage about NYPD struggling to solve murders, the New York York Times ran an article with a clickbait headline distorting the number of murders happening in the city. “After Murders’ Doubled Overnight,’ the N.Y.P.D. Is Solving Fewer Cases” carelessly gives the impression that the number of…
Kevin Strickland has always maintained that he was home watching television and had nothing to do with the crime Nearly $1.4 million had been raised as of Saturday for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in a triple killing. The Midwest Innocence Project set up the GoFundMe fundraiser as…
A move James made has been sanctioned by the NBA and deemed inappropriate This is the season of sanctions for Los Angeles Lakers superstar, Lebron James. The 4-ring NBA champion got hit with a $15,000 fine for obscene gestures during the Los Angeles Lakers 124-116 win against the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday. James performed the…
Source: M. Phillips / Getty Black women continue to shape the landscape of the arts and are making power moves in the process. According to CNN, Janet Rollé was recently appointed to serve as CEO and Executive Director of the American Ballet Theatre. An alum of Beyoncé’s media and management company will lead one of…
Many Twitter users criticized Ebro, calling him colorist and misogynistic Radio personality Ebro Darden came under fire recently after a viral video of him making disparaging comments about Tinashe’s name resurfaced. In the 2013 video which has made rounds on Twitter, Ebro said that the “2 On” singer is “light-skinned with a ghetto ass name.”…
