Officials in a North Carolina town have decided not to take any action after the police chief, the entire department and two town clerks stepped down in protest of the hiring of the new town manager. Justine Jones was hired on June 2 to manage the small town of 2,000 people southeast of Raleigh. Less…
Source: New York Daily News / Getty In a country where the only kind of supremacy is white supremacy, a Black person can still catch a hate crime for assaulting a white person while expressing anti-white sentiment. This is the lesson two Black teenagers learned in NYC after they allegedly got into a “verbal dispute”…
Rapper JT has officially approved the “Good Love” dance challenge after a fan created a viral dance to the City Girls‘ newest single with Usher. JT gave herself a pat on the back for being able to get a few moves in before giving up and laughing. “Man I did my best,” she captioned an…
A viral social media video showing two young Black girls snubbed by a Sesame Street performer at a parade has caused outrage and the girls’ family to cry racism. For Jodi Brown and her 6-year-old daughter and niece of Brooklyn, New York, a weekend visit to Sesame Place theme park in Philadelphia was supposed to…
Source: FPG / Getty July 28 marks the annual celebration of Buffalo Soldiers Day, a commemorative holiday that celebrates the contributions of the first army regiment comprised of African American soldiers. Following the U.S. Civil War, African American soldiers were deployed on the Western frontier to protect settlers and battle Native Americans encroaching upon the…
It looks like Sheree Whitfield doesn’t need to call Tyrone anymore, because she has moved on to “Love & Marriage: Huntsville” star Martell Holt. Martell rose to fame after starring in the OWN reality series, however his five-year affair on now ex-wife Melody Holt not only villianized his character, but has the public worried about…
Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur are two of the most prolific rappers of all time, and fans will spend hours and hours debating who was the better lyricist. But what about hip-hop lovers who didn’t like their music? will.i.am had a similar debate during a resurfaced interview on the “Hip Hop Confessions” podcast in June…
Action demanding the president cancel student debt earlier this spring. Source: Leigh Vogel / Getty With the federal student loan pause set to expire, President Joe Biden could be considering another extension at the very least. The Biden-Harris administration has not yet decided what to do about federal student loans, but NBC News reported that…
A Georgia woman, suffering from a mental health crisis, died while in the custody of authorities after being detained for drunkenness. Now, the parents are requesting full transparency into her death — as experts say the story of her demise doesn’t make sense if officers were following standard protocol. On Friday, July 15, Brianna Grier…
Tamar Braxton has launched social media into another great debate. On July 26, the “Love and War” singer posed a prompt imploring passionate R&B fans to pit their favorite vocalists against crooner Usher. “Name a male singer that sings better than usher…” wrote Braxton on Twitter. Tamar Braxton and Usher. (Photo: @tamarbraxton/Instagram, @usher/Instagram) Name a…
