Cynthia Erivo, left, and Ariana Grande in the audience during the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and scheduled to begin at 7…
Joy Reid will host her primetime news program, “The ReidOut,” for the last time Monday night, at least on MSNBC. The move is part of a dramatic reshuffling of the network’s prime-time line-up. Fans were irate to hear Reid had been fired. Some, including comedian D.L. Hughley, said they won’t be patronizing the network much,…
Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Over the weekend shadow president and resident White House immigrant, Elon Musk, sent federal workers an email noting that they needed to reply noting everything they’d done in the past week and if they didn’t comply they would be out. “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly…
NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 06: Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter Roberta Flack gives a special performance at the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 70th Birthday Party For Billie Jean King at the Museum of Art and Design on November 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for Women’s Sports Foundation) OPINION: The legendary…
Source: Udo Salters Photography / Getty Nikki Giovanni is now an ancestor. So many of us who loved her are still struggling with that reality while also understanding that she has always, always, been larger than life even as she fully reveled in it. In one of Giovanni’s final interviews one month before she transitioned,…
Lester Holt attends NBCUniversal’s Summer Press Day 2018 at The Universal Studios Backlot on May 2, 2018 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) Veteran news anchor Lester Holt will remain with “Dateline” full-time following stepping down from “Nightly News.” The turnover of Black anchors in nightly news continues. 24 hours after…
Singer Roberta Flack, best known for her hits “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” has died on Monday, Feb. 24. She was 88. The four-time Grammy award-winning artist, who had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for three years, died in Manhattan on the way to hospital, according to…
A wealthy Black real estate investor, known for sharing personalized property tour videos on TikTok, recently became the target of racial profiling when one of his white neighbors confronted him over his presence outside his own house. Taylor Walker, who says he has amassed more than $30 million in assets and capital since 2018, shared…
Source: Tierney L. Cross / Getty President Donald Trump has cut protections for thousands of Haitians in the country, placing them on a path for deportation months away. On Thursday (Feb. 20), President Donald Trump took another step in furthering his immigration crackdown by removing the Temporary Protected Status for Haitians in the United States….
Joy Reid attends during the 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 07, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE) “The ReidOut,” anchored by Joy Reid, was canceled at MSNBC after nearly five years amid widespread network overhaul. After news broke…
