Instagram began hiding likes in 2019 as part of an effort to make people’s time on the app less stressful and depressing If you post a photo to social media and you don’t know how many people liked it, did you really post it? Instagram and Facebook users can now find out. Beginning Wednesday, those on both…
The author of such works as “Bad Feminist” and “Hunger” is teaming up with Grove Atlantic on Roxane Gay Books, which will publish three books a year Roxane Gay’s latest project is an imprint that will release the kinds of books she likes to read. The author of such works as “Bad Feminist” and “Hunger”…
Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, who supports the D.C. statehood bill, says their letter makes him “more optimistic than ever.” A group of dozens of congressional scholars sent a letter to the U.S. Congress imploring and advising them to use its authority to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state. Its 39 signatories —…
Ciara‘s May 24 post of her daughter Sienna Wilson, 4, and Vanessa Bryant,‘s daughter Bianka Bryant, 4, hugging and holding hands during a trip to Disney World had fans commenting on how the toddlers’ relationship mirrored the bond between their mothers. Although it’s unclear how long Vanessa and Ciara have known each other, their friendship, often described as…
Samaria Rice, the mother of slain sixth-grader Tamir Rice, is far from done unloading her grievances with those she accuses of “hustling Black death” as a pseudo form of activism against police killings. Samaria, 44, lost her twelve-year-old son seven years ago, but the pain remains palpable. And insult is felt as she watches self-appointed…
The 12-member Cleveland jury somehow reviewed copies of legal briefs from Tevin Biles-Thomas’ lawyers and prosecutors. The judge in the case against Tevin Biles-Thomas, the brother of gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, declared a mistrial Monday after jurors read legal paperwork included in evidence they were asked to review. The 12-member jury received copies of legal…
Beyoncé rapped facts on the remix to “Savage” when she said, “man I got this s–t from Tina,” and her mother made sure to remind people of that while attending the 2021 Billboard Awards. After presenting the Change Maker Award to Houston rapper Trae The Truth, Tina Knowles-Lawson made her way to a press junket where…
On Instagram, the “Styling Hollywood” pair each shared a selfie of them clad in masks, snuggling with the baby. Celebrity stylist Jason Bolden and his husband, Adair Curtis, announced that their family has grown by one with the addition of their first baby, a son, whom they named Arrow Fox. On Instagram, the couple each…
Source: KEREM YUCEL / Getty Darnella Frazier’s memory will forever be embedded with the imagery of George Floyd‘s death. The now 18-year-old held the camera which captured Floyd’s last earthly moments as former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin murdered him in an act of state-sanctioned violence on May 25, 2020. On that fateful day Darnella, who…
Gerald Goines, the ex-Houston officer who arrested Floyd, is currently facing charges on two murder counts. On the first anniversary of his murder, Color Of Change and The Innocence Project of Texas jointly launched an online petition calling on Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to issue a posthumous…
