Minaj called the popular MSNBC host an “uncle tomiana” and accused Reid of being “thirsty” to “spread a false narrative about a black woman.” Nicki Minaj slammed MSNBC’s Joy Reid after TheReidOut host called out the rapper on her primetime show accusing Minaj of encouraging the Black community to not get vaccinated. Nicki Minaj called…
A group of six Black farm workers from Mississippi claim their former employer, Pitts Farm Partnership, brought white workers over from South Africa and paid them more to do the same work. The suit was filed on Wednesday, Sept. 8, by the Mississippi Center for Justice and Southern Migrant Legal Services. Pitts Farm Partnership is located…
Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter once again have something to be proud of with their oldest child, Blue Ivy Carter. Nine-year-old Blue Ivy became the youngest person to win an award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, Sept. 12. Blue Ivy shared the best cinematography win for the song “Brown Skin Girl” with her…
Colson Whitehead and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers are two of the finalists African American authors led the field of finalists for the eighth annual Kirkus Prize announced on Monday. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead is shortlisted in the fiction category for his highly-anticipated heist novel, Harlem Shuffle, while critically acclaimed poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers earned the…
Nicki Minaj attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019, in New York City. Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty When rapper Nicki Minaj announced on Twitter that she had tested positive for COVID-19, she hinted that she was also experiencing vaccine hesitancy. She claimed…
The new commercial for the campaign features Beyoncé singing a stirring rendition of “Moon River” Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “About Love” Tiffany & Co. campaign continues its rollout. In a new video, the power couple appears together as Queen Bey sings “Moon River.” Beyoncé and Jay-Z made major headlines when they announced their collaboration with Tiffany…
A former backup dancer/singer for Kelly gave an eerily similar account during an interview featured in the Lifetime docuseries ‘Surviving R. Kelly.’ As R. Kelly’s criminal case continues in Brooklyn, New York, more is being revealed by witnesses who say they saw firsthand the disgraced R&B singer’s relationship with Aaliyah. A witness previously referred to…
Her friends and family used the hashtag #FindTanyaFear on social media to spread awareness about her disappearance. British actress Tanya Fear has reportedly been found alive after she went missing in Los Angeles last week. Fear, 31, was last seen on Thursday, CNN reports. She was reported missing on Sept. 9. Her friends and family…
This makes the actress the second Black woman and fourth Black person to win back-to-back Emmys. Over the weekend Maya Rudolph nabbed her second voice-over Emmy for her role as Connie The Hormone Monstress in Big Mouth and also managed to sashay her way into the history books at the same time. In 2020, the…
Pamela Uba has been crowned the first Black Miss Ireland. The new Miss Ireland won the pageant on Sunday, Sept. 6, in Cavan. Uba competed in the pageant as Miss Galway and is grateful to be the first Black Miss Ireland. She has a medical science degree from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and a master’s…
