Source: Anadolu / Getty In October of last year, Marimar Martinez, a teaching assistant and U.S. citizen from Chicago, was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, and before the ink was even dry on the headlines reporting the story, the Department of Homeland Security was already dragging her name through the mud, claiming…
Cardi B performs onstage during Revolve Festival 2025 at Cavallo Ranch on April 12, 2025 in Thermal, California. (Photo by Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Revolve) Cardi B kicks off the 35-stop “Little Miss Drama” tour in Palm Desert, California, before heading to Las Vegas. Cardi B kicked off her highly anticipated “Little Miss Drama” tour…
“While the wealth gap was starting to close under the previous administration, he’s widening it in a lot of ways,” Crockett told theGrio. Following a better-than-expected jobs report this week, President Donald Trump declared that “The Golden Age of America is upon us!!!” But while the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% and 130,000 jobs were…
Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty The heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) appeared before the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee on Thursday and spouted a whole lot of nothing. The New York Times reports that the hearing comes two days after they spoke in front of House members and…
Figure skating fans will not allow history to be rewritten during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy. Headlines are buzzing over the acrobatic ice skating stunt that helped to push U.S. athlete Ilia “Quad God” Malinin into uncharted gold medal success. The 21-year-old became the first person to victoriously complete an in-competition backflip and…
(Photos: Getty Images) Michael Jackson’s estate shuts down Sexxy Red’s explicit “Beat It” remix after a clip goes viral on social media. It doesn’t look like Sexyy Red will be receiving clearance for Michael Jackson’s sample anytime soon. This week, Lil Yachty posted a video of the “U My Everything” rapper singing a raunchy remix…
Source: SC State University/Facebook.com / SC State University/Facebook.com A shooting at South Carolina State University on Thursday night prompted an immediate campus lockdown that remained in effect until early Friday morning, according to an update from the HBCU shared to Facebook. The lockdown began around 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 12 after reports of gunfire at…
Award-winning actress Jane Fonda is best known for her stellar work on screen, but she also built a reputation as a political activist. The advocate for left-leaning causes has been a thorn in the side of Republican President Donald Trump since his first term from 2017 to 2021. The liberal Fonda, 88, and the conservative…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 06: Governor of Maryland Wes Moore speaks onstage during the 2025 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture presented by Coca-Cola – Day 3 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 06, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE) Gov. Wes Moore reminds President Trump that he…
Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty Did you know that right now, as we speak, the introduction of the transfer portal in college football may turn out to be just as important for Black athletes as the desegregation of Southern colleges and universities in the 1950s and 1970s, which suddenly gave them access to thousands of…
