After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals, moving instead in the other direction by granting greater powers to officers, making it harder to discipline them and expanding their authority to crack down on demonstrations. The sponsors of the GOP measures acted in the wake of…
Longtime music exec Dame Dash is being sued by the very record label he co-founded for allegedly trying to sell the copyright to Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt” as a non-fungible token, also known as an NFT. According to Page Six, the lawsuit was filed on Friday, June 18, in New York’s Southern District Court…
It’s unclear whether the crash was intentional or accidental, authorities say A driver slammed into spectators Saturday evening at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one man and seriously injuring another, authorities said. Some witnesses said the crash appeared to be an intentional act, but Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Ali Adamson…
Source: Michael A. McCoy / Getty Every once in a while, I imagine myself watching the news with Frederick Douglass to gauge American progress since his era. When he heard Juneteenth was just made a national holiday, y’all should’ve seen his face. I gather it was a slight distortion of the same expression he had…
UPDATED: 6:00 a.m. EDT, June 20, 2021 — On this Father’s Day, especially one that falls right smack dab in the middle of a global racial reckoning that began in the U.S., it remains important to point out and debunk the unfortunate theories that incorrectly generalize and stereotype Black fathers as deadbeat dads who prioritize…
Two Black women entrepreneurs are on a mission to eradicate the stigma surrounding mental health in the Black community and are making history in the process. According to NBC 15, Afiya Hooker and Joanna Johnson recently opened Mobile’s first Black-owned community mental health center. The center—dubbed Yin Yang Wellness Center—opened its doors in May. Aware…
“It no longer represents ALL of us. It’s not fair to be forced to honor it. It’s time for a new flag,” Gray wrote Macy Gray is calling for the American flag to get a face lift. Just in time for Juneteenth, Gray wrote an opinion piece for Market Watch explaining why the American flag…
A Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been suspended for eight hours after he called a Black man “boy” and grabbed his throat during an encounter outside a hotel in, Dania Beach, Florida, in July 2017. Allen Floyd was holding his infant son during the exchange captured on Deputy James Cady’s body camera. “We all…
Each historically Black college and university embodies its own rich cultural and historical significance, and a new project will put the focus on preserving imagery that gives a lens into the legacies of these educational pillars. Getty Images is providing grants for the digitization of historic HBCU images. The $500,000 endowment is a collaborative initiative…
“Juneteenth is soooo lame,” tweeted Owens Azealia Banks is not impressed by Candace Owens’ Juneteenth comments. Many across the country are celebrating the news of Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, but not Owens. She took to Twitter to blast the holiday but Banks was not having it and quickly shot back on Friday. “Juneteenth is soooo…
