Sha’Carri Richardson’s first and highly anticipated performance following her controversial suspension from competition before the Tokyo Olympics went far worse than an athlete with her profile would’ve wanted. A recent offer from a hotel owner in Jamaica seemingly was meant to cheer up the young sprinter, but many on social media weren’t convinced the gesture…
Williams hasn’t competed since injuring her right leg in the first set of her first-round match at Wimbledon in late June Serena Williams added herself to the list of big-name withdrawals from the U.S. Open on Wednesday, pulling out of the year’s last Grand Slam tournament because of a torn hamstring. Williams hasn’t competed since…
Donald Trump favorite Walker and his team will now be able to start raising money to vie for the seat. Former football star Herschel Walker has filed the paperwork to run for the Senate as a Republican in the state of Georgia. Team Herschel Inc. was established on Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission. Walker…
A Black Ohio family said their home value increased by $92,000 after they removed all signs that they were Black before a second appraisal was conducted. Erica and Aaron Parker knew something was wrong when an initial appraiser valued their Loveland home at more than $42,000 less than the sales price for which they’d agreed…
The legislation passes as GOPers in nearly every state propose and many are passing restrictive voting laws. The Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act on Tuesday. The bill would strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and make it more difficult for states to restrict voting access….
Many questions linger surrounding the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001, that claimed a total of 2,977 lives across New York City, Washington, D.C., and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The attacks saw a total of 19 men commandeer four planes that morning and crash two into the World Trade Center towers and one into the…
During the West Wing late afternoon address on Afghanistan, Biden connected his Build Back Better Plan to voting rights. President Joe Biden is faced with one crisis after another, and Afghanistan has topped the list with Biden telling the G-7 Summit he will not extend the Aug. 31 deadline, working on contingency plans for Americans…
A new book details how parents who are trying to deal with their children’s school suspensions are losing wages Charles Bell’s forthcoming book Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety chronicles his research and details how school punishment has an impact on the lives of Black families, according to Yahoo News. Bell spoke…
Based on the 1999 film, the show will center on the friendship of three young Black men growing up in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood Showtime has given a pilot order to Rick Famuyiwa and Justin Hillian for a show based on their 1999 coming-of-age film The Wood, which centers on the friendship of…
Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Back from recess, the House of Representatives voted to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill passed 219-212, with no Republicans crossing over to support voting rights. First introduced in 2019, the bill was renamed for John Lewis shortly after his passing. The earlier version of the bill…
