An Illinois professor was charged on Sunday, Sept. 19 with aggravated assault and a hate crime after he allegedly hurled racial slurs at at a Black woman and her 7-year-old daughter outside of a Chicago grocery store earlier this month. Alberto Friedmann, a 53-year-old professor at National University of Health Sciences, confronted the woman and…

Source: Bettmann / Getty The United States’ relationship with Haiti is far from democratic. To understand it, you have to take a look at the history. In the late 1800s Haiti, like so many other lands inhabited by black and brown people, was under constant threat from western world invasion. France, Germany, and the U.S….

Gabrielle Union disclosed in a Tuesday, Sept. 21, interview with Essence magazine that her present-day self wouldn’t have remained in a relationship with her husband Dwyane Wade after he had a child during their 2013 separation. The couple, which wasn’t married at the time, was split up for a few months when Wade fathered a…

Jennifer Hough, who Kenneth Petty was convicted of attempting to rape when they were both 16 years old, had her public say on Wednesday In 1994, Jennifer Hough, then 16 years old, reported to the police that Kenneth Petty, also 16 at the time, had raped her at knifepoint after leading her into a home…

Hostin revealed on an episode of The View that the matter is personal to her, as her husband is Haitian On a recent episode of The View, Sunny Hostin slammed U.S. policy amid the Haiti migrant crisis, sharing at the table that it has, “always been corrupt.” Thousands of Haitian migrants have traveled to the…

One of the biggest debates to arise from the global pandemic has been the topic of paying rent during a time when many have been furloughed from work or fired altogether. We recently came across news of a landlord that found himself at a crossroads of either keeping his business afloat or having a heart…

Dr.Dre was hit with another million-dollar bill as a result of his ongoing and messy divorce procedures after a judge ordered the “Nuthin’ but a G Thang” rapper to fork over an extra $1.55 million in attorney fees to his estranged wife Nicole Young. The former practicing attorney’s lawyer fees are said to exceed over…

For possibly the first time in American history, white conservatives got upset over a Black man being handled violently by law enforcement—and all it took was for said Black man to be an anti-science, pro-medical misinformation GOP hopeful. Meet Republican candidate for Nevada’s lieutenant governor, Mack Miller. Video footage spread across social media Tuesday showing…

The school suspended Alpha Delta Pi, which was soon disbanded, after a presentation comparing Black athletes’ looks to whites. Methodist University suspended a sorority that was soon disbanded after members hosted an event that rated photos of Black football players based on attractiveness and compared them to whites.  Alpha Delta Pi had been asked to…

Jackson State Coach Sanders offered to help Alcorn State get resources because he wants to see its student-athletes “get down.” NFL Hall of Fame player-turned-coach Deion Sanders reached out to a rival HBCU team, offering assistance in finding trainers for their squad.  Earlier this year, Sanders signed up to be the head football coach at…