Source: Javier Ferrando / Getty The end of the year often provides time for reflection and re-evaluation. In news, things can move quickly, and it’s easy to miss important stories with everything going on. We compiled a year-end review of social justice stories worth resisting or reading for the first time. Catching up on what…
Congratulations are in order for Nick Cannon and Alyssa Scott, following Scott’s sweet Instagram video Thursday, Dec. 28 announcing the birth of their new baby girl, Halo, on Dec. 14. Scott uploaded a two-minute video showing Halo’s evolution from Scott’s belly into her newborn fleshliness. Nick Cannon and Alyssa Scott with Halo Cannon @itsalyssaemm/Instagram “December…
Source: Construction Photography/Avalon / Getty Three white men in South Africa are probably wishing they had minded their own business right about now as they have been charged with crimes related to an attack on Black teens at a resort near South Africa’s capital, Bloemfontein. As previously reported, the teens were allegedly ordered out of…
A Buffalo barber turned his business into temporary housing for those left unsheltered during the recent superstorm that claimed the lives of over 50 people nationally. On Friday, Dec. 23, after much of his city was buried under mountains of snow, Craig Elston opened his barbershop, C&C Cutz, up to the most vulnerable people in…
A California judge upholds Cardi B‘s back tattoo album cover lawsuit over her 2016 mixtape “Gangsta B—- Music Vol. 1.” The cover art features a man appearing to give her oral sex while she drank a Corona beer in the backseat of a limousine. Rolling Stone reports that model Kevin Brophy sued the “Bodak Yellow”…
Pelé celebrates Brazil beating Italy during the World Cup in Mexico on June 21, 1970. | Source: Alessandro Sabattini / Getty Pelé, soccer’s first global superstar, has died at the age of 82. To many fans, the Brazilian will be remembered as the best to have ever played the game. For others it goes further:…
Source: Vicky Kumar / Getty A Black woman who died following cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic is the latest person to lose their life in a troubling trend that is showing no signs of slowing. Sucretta Tolliver, of Chicago, traveled to the Caribbean nation for an unspecified surgical procedure earlier this month and died…
Source: Bettmann / Getty Pelé, whose name remains ringing bells around the world not only for his prowess on the soccer field but also for being a fixture in popular culture around the world, died on Thursday at the age of 82 following a well-publicized bout with colon cancer. But his legend lives on, fueled…
Megan Thee Stallion closes out the year with yet another victory in court. A week after Tory Lanez was found guilty of charges connecting to a 2020 shooting involving the artist, the Houston rapper won an early battle against her label, 1501 Certified Entertainment. On Wednesday, Dec. 28, a Harris County, Texas, judge rejected the…
Social media influencers and criminal justice advocates are pushing for charges against a white Ohio man who allegedly shot a 13-year Black boy multiple times and walked free, even though he was legally prohibited from carrying a gun. Reports show that Krieg Butler, 36, was initially charged with murder for the Oct. 12 killing at…
