As analysts point to white fear as the motive behind the movement to dictate how race intersects with history is taught in K-12 schools, more than a dozen GOP lawmakers are backing a bill that would defund U.S. schools that promote critical race theory. The NO Corrupt Racist Training (NO CRT) Act, proposed by Republican…
The nation’s police officers appear to be open to long-requested legislation. Republican Senator Tim Scott, however, no longer is. A bill intended to reform policing in America that won bipartisan support in the wake of the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis — which caused protests across the U.S. and even across…
Princess Blanding of the Libertarian Party angrily decried her virtual silencing after security removed her from the Virginia gubernatorial debate. The final gubernatorial debate in Alexandria, Virginia between former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the state’s Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, was interrupted Tuesday evening by the passionate hopeful from a third-party: Princess Blanding of the…
Source: Robin Marchant / Getty Sage Steele—the ESPN commentator and sunken place occupant whose name sounds like an AXE deodorant scent—apparently didn’t think it was shameful enough to be in the club of celebrity negroes who say anti-Black things then whine about how Black people don’t like them, so she also decided to join the…
Nick Cannon says he’s pumping the brakes on his baby-making operations after appearing to take some sound advice from his therapist. Cannon shook up the social media timeline after welcoming four new babies over a seven-month span from December 2020 to June 2021. With his most recent unveiling of a second set of twins in…
From left: Eddy Grant, Donald Trump and Omarosa Manigault-Newman. | Source: Getty Images / Getty The losses keep piling up for former President Donald Trump. Still stinging from the election defeat he refuses to accept as truth, a pair of Black celebrities handed Trump back-to-back two more Ls within 24 hours of each other after…
Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty During a press conference in Bohemia, New York, the family of Gabby Petito urged the news media and the public to give the same energy to all missing people as they did their daughter. Gabby Petito, 22, was reported missing on September 11, after taking a cross-country road trip with…
In July, while preparing for “Insecure’”s fifth and final season, Issa Rae, married her longtime boyfriend, Louis Diame, in a private ceremony in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France. Now, the “Insecure” creator has landed the cover story for the September issue of “SELF” magazine, where she explains why she hilariously referred to her wedding as an “Impromptu photo…
Senator Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. | Source: Bloomberg / Getty The rhetoric following the stunning failure of any legislative achievements on the police reform front has focused on placing the blame squarely on…
Nefertiti Walker, Ph.D., the school’s vice-chancellor, described it as “vile, blatantly racist and violently offensive.” Officials at UMass Amherst have addressed the increase in racially targeted anti-Black incidents on campus, specifically a racist letter sent to numerous Black-centered student groups on campus Sept. 17. The email, according to WWLP, was sent from a non-student account…
