A Virginia man was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 20, to 18 months in federal prison after he brought a burning cross into a Black family’s yard last year. James Brown, a 41-year-old man from Marion, pleaded guilty in April to criminal interference with federally protected housing rights based upon the victim’s race. James Brown, a…

Source: Ezra Shaw / Getty Dell Curry and Sonya Curry, parents to two of the NBA’s most gifted shooters in Stephen and Seth Curry, are splitting up. According to TMZ, Sonya Curry filed for divorce from her husband of 33 years in June. According to court documents, the divorce is still ongoing. The 57-year-old Currys…

Tiffany Haddish is putting a “curse” on a person after they attempted to scam her friends through her She Ready Foundation. The She Ready Foundation, which was founded by Haddish, was created to assist children living in foster care and young adults who are out of foster care. Haddish explained to her Instagram followers on…

Source: RobinOlimb / Getty Fulfilling a promise over 50 years in the making, a North Carolina Court extended the right to vote to people formerly incarcerated for felonies; lawyers and advocates say this is the single largest grant of voting rights in North Carolina since the 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed.   In a…

Source: David Corio / Getty On August 25th, 2001, Aaliyah and eight others boarded a small twin-engine plane in the Bahamas. The Cessna was headed to Opa Locka Airport in Florida. The flight was only an hour and twenty minutes, so Aaliyah and the team were eager to get back. They were exhausted after working…

An outpouring of tributes and messages were shared on what would have been Kobe Bryant’s 43rd birthday Vanessa Bryant shared a sweet message to her late husband Kobe Bryant on what would have been his 43rd birthday. She took to her Instagram page to share a photo of the couple kissing next to the Larry…

Latasha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said the president’s possible gesture was admirable, but “we cannot just have symbolic progress.” President Joe Biden got down on one knee in the East Room during the celebration of the 2021 WNBA champions Seattle Storm, on the eve of the vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act…

Henry ‘Enrique’ Tarrio was sentenced to 155 days in a Washington, D.C. jail for the crime Henry (Enrique) Tarrio, leader of the far-right Proud Boys, is paying the price for burning a Black Lives Matter banner. On Monday, Aug. 23, Enrique was handed down a sentence of five months after he admitted to setting a…

“Being the first of anything is always daunting,” said Tori Cooper As director of community engagement for the transgender justice initiative at the Human Rights Campaign, Tori Cooper is on a mission to bring attention to disparities in health care for the Black trans community. Cooper recently became the first Black transgender woman appointed to…

Bow Wow is trying out a new hairstyle. The rapper and actor uploaded a now-deleted Aug. 20 video on Instagram that showed the front part of his hair slicked down to the back while the sides and the back of his head were shaved. In the background, his mom can be heard saying that he…