Missy Elliott also sent a special message to Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, thanking the music legends for creating the successful music platform Sunday night showcased Swizz Beatz and Timbaland‘s first Verzuz rematch, over a year after the first official music “battle” in March 2020. In this rematch, Swizz Beatz gifted Timbaland with an Aaliyah and…
A year ago Amber Goodwin only hoped her ancestors were proud as she pursued her law degree. Now, only days away from walking the stage at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, she is certain that proud may be an understatement. “Sorry not sorry in advance for all the law graduation photos y’all…
Germany has agreed to pay Namibia $1.3 billion as it formally recognizes the atrocities committed during the colonial-era genocide that claimed the lives of some 80,000 indigenous people more than a century ago in southwest African region. The announcement comes months after Namibia rejected Germany’s $11.7 million compensation offer for the mass killings “not acceptable”…
Tracee Ellis Ross proved to be a dancing queen on May 27 after the actress uploaded a throwback clip of herself gyrating in a hallway. Ross, accompanied by an unidentified camerawoman, is seen being cheered on by the unnamed person as the 48-year-old begins to twerk. In the clip, the camerawoman repeats the phrase “git it”…
Opinion: O.W. Gurley’s investments in Greenwood’s Black Wall Street is an economic model of community determination, economic power, and resilience When O.W. Gurley, a wealthy African American from Arkansas, moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and purchased over 40 acres of land, he committed to selling said land to Black people only. His investments would become an…
Source: Universal History Archive / Getty 100 years ago today, the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma was destroyed in one of the most violent racial attacks in our nation’s history. The immediate cause of the violence was the arrest of 19-year-old Dick Rowland. The Black teen was accused of assaulting a white girl. Such assaults,…
An Instagram post paid tribute to Grady L. Brewer, an Atlanta native and graduate of Morehouse after playing there. Longtime Morehouse College basketball coach Grady L. Brewer died Saturday, He was 63. An Atlanta, Georgia native and graduate of Morehouse, Brewer served as the Maroon Tigers’ head coach for 21 years. Under his leadership, the…
Clayton Dillard III’s dad said his body remained covered by a tarp at the crime scene in 90-degree heat for hours. One of the victims fatally wounded at a mass shooting in Northwest Miami-Dade has been identified as Clayton Dillard III. Twenty-two people were injured, two fatally, in Sunday’s morning’s shooting, which, according to reports,…
Opinion: White domestic terrorism remains our greatest threat, yet white America lives in denial about the history of Black Wall Street, a history of genocide and racialized trauma. A full century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, justice remains elusive for the victims of Greenwood and all Black victims of racial violence and systemic racism. This is…
A family who lost two young sisters after a reckless driver struck the vehicle they were in while driving 100 miles per hour in 2016 believes the plea deal that will allow the driver to spend just four years in prion is unjust. James Halsell Jr., a 64-yeat-old astronaut from Alabama, pleaded guilty on Thursday,…
