“Anna Wintour took the time to ask me over Zoom; I was not expecting that at all,” the poet and author shared. Poet and activist Amanda Gorman said co-chairing the annual Met Gala made her feel like one of Disney’s most iconic characters. “The closest analogy is feeling like Cinderella going to the ball,” said…
“We do have demand to come to many cities across the country,” a rep for the app says. The Citizen app is hiring residents of New York City and Los Angeles to live stream crime scenes and emergencies. The controversial neighborhood watch app aims to provide users with real-time safety updates. The company is paying…
Andrew Spencer’s controversy comes just weeks after old tweets of Justin Glaze’s also resurfaced and led to a public apology Another day, yet another controversy coming out of Bachelor Nation. A Bachelorette contestant says he is, “disappointed and embarrassed” by his past tweets about women. Recently, every season has revealed an issue with contestants on…
OPINION: Officer Dunn’s harrowing testimony of racist abuse in the face of a violent insurrection is a reminder that it wasn’t just about overturning an election but their racism toward a changing and more diverse America. “Some people are trying to deny what happened — to whitewash it,” Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said on Tuesday…
Tennis star Naomi Osaka speaks out following a devasting loss and subsequent elimination from her first Olympic run. On Tuesday, July 27, the 23-year-old lost to former French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, who is ranked 42nd in the world, 6-1, 6-4, in the third round of the tournament. The No. 2-ranked…
Prince George’s County Del. Erek Barron and Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael S. Rollins are two of Biden’s nominees President Joe Biden has nominated eight leaders to serve as U.S. attorneys who are on the cusp of making history. Six of the candidates are Black and three are women. Biden announced a slate of nominees…
A new study sponsored by LIMRA and Life Happens shows that Black Americans are more likely than any other racial group in the United States to have life insurance coverage, and that the rate of coverage ticked upward amid the pandemic and the disparate impact the virus had on the Black community. According to findings…
“These individuals took an innocent life for absolutely no reason,” Monroe police said. Four men have been arrested in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl who died Saturday night during a drive-by shooting in Monroe, North Carolina. Loyalti Allah and some friends were sitting at a picnic bench waiting for a DoorDash order…
“Love and Hip Hop Atlanta” watchers are getting more and more frustrated with Safaree Samuels. By now, fans of Safaree Samuels and his estranged wife Erica Mena know that the two are headed to divorce, but this new season of “L&HHATL” gives viewers a close look at the events that led up to this decision….
Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado let it be known that her support lies with the Black Lives Matter movement. Alvarado ended her floor routine at the Tokyo Olympics Sunday night by taking a knee and raising her fist to the air, a move she told reporters afterward that she had begun choreographing last year as…
