Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty UPDATED: Aug. 4, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET — Wednesday marked the 60th birthday of our forever president, Barack Obama. And while it was a given he’d be celebrating his big day by hanging out with his friends and family at his mansion in Martha Vineyard, those plans have been scaled…
The Black man who was beaten by several white men in a racially charged attack at an Indiana lake during the Fourth of July weekend last year is facing criminal charges in connection with the incident. Vauhxx Booker, 37, was charged on Friday by a special prosecutor on the case in Monroe Circuit Court, with…
After walking the earth for 51 years, it looks like Sean “Diddy” Combs, aka LOVE, has figured out his purpose. In a Wednesday, Aug. 3, interview with Vanity Fair, the entrepreneur, producer, and executive revealed that “saving the Black race” is what he recently discovered was part of his purpose after talking to God. Sean…
Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty If anyone can, New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James can. James dropped the bomb on Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday morning, finding he sexually harassed 11 women. Released after five months of investigating, the independent probe found Cuomo violated multiple state and federal laws, including Title VII of the Civil…
Brown’s fight against progressive Nina Turner became a proxy for the tensions between Democrats’ old guard and the more confrontational liberals coming up behind it Mike Carey, a coal lobbyist backed by former President Donald Trump, beat a bevy of Republicans in central Ohio, while Cuyahoga County Council member Shontel Brown pulled out a victory…
Source: Charday Penn / Getty Black Women’s Equal Pay Day hits a little differently in the middle of a pandemic. More than simply acknowledging the wage disparity between Black women and non-Hispanic white men, Equal Pay Day needs to consider the full impact of Black women’s economic conditions. We’ve said it before and we’ll…
Shontel Brown speaks at a Cleveland church on Sunday, Aug. 1. | Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Shontel Brown, a county council leader in Cleveland, was projected to defeat former State Sen. Nina Turner in the Democratic primary for Congress in Ohio that may have also been a referendum on the progressive wing of…
Protesters gathered outside of a New Jersey restaurant after a security guard and a K-9 charged at a Black man in the restaurant’s parking lot on Thursday. Video was posted to social media by a woman who identified herself as the mother of the man whom the guard and dog charged at outside of the…
Safaree Samuels has been in the headlines with his estranged wife, Erica Mena, quite often for the past few months. The biggest news has been that after their few online disputes Mena filed for divorce in May. During their falling-out they were filming for their hit reality TV series “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta,” and…
OPINION: To prevent stigma and misinformation from spreading like wildfire, we can use moments like DaBaby’s controversy to address homophobia and misinformation in the Black community We may want to rethink canceling DaBaby. Whether he deserves a second chance is debatable, but canceling him means we miss an important opportunity to address homophobia and HIV/AIDS…
