OPINION: Meghan’s royal title and coat of arms were little shield from racism. As a society, if we can’t protect a Black princess, how can we expect to protect a pauper? By February 2019, less than a year after their wedding, “tormenting the Duchess of Sussex ha[d] become a national sport” in the U.K. The…
Nina King, who takes over as Duke’s athletics director later this year, will become only the third Black woman AD in a power conference Nina King knows she faces a big responsibility in taking over as Duke’s athletics director later this year. It’s not just about managing a 27-sport program in a marquee league. Nina…
“Real Housewives of Atlanta” fans claimed that Porsha Williams threw her best friend Shamea Morton into the social media wringer stemming from Williams’ recent engagement to Simon Guobadia by admitting Morton set the couple up. Williams received backlash following the news of her engagement because Guobadia is still married to “RHOA” friend to the show Falynn Guobadia. The “matchmaker” remark…
“The kids were the ones that actually got the gentleman off of the bus and they pretty much had my back as much as my concerns were with them,” Columbia, South Carolina school bus driver Kenneth Corbin told Good Morning America Inquisitive kindergartners helped to keep their classmates and their driver safe from a hijacker,…
“Some people say I am pushing an agenda, and I am. It’s called liberation,” said Lil Nas X Lil Nas X was honored at the Native Son Awards on Thursday, where he delivered a speech recalling how intimidating an experience coming out was for him, describing it as one of the “scariest moments” of his…
A state appeals court in Florida heard the case of a Black man who was jailed for 30 days in 2019 after writing a critical letter to the judge who dismissed a civil rights law suit he’d filed against the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Derrick Jenkins, a 41-year-old married father, spent a month at Palm Beach…
“Unless someone in the car is shooting at police officers, you can get that car another day — but you cannot get that life back,” an expert said. Police departments across the U.S. — including in large cities such as New York and Denver — strictly limit shooting at moving vehicles because they consider the…
Dartavius Barnes is suing the city of Springfield and the Springfield Police Department for what he says is the desecration of his two year-old daughter’s cremated ashes during a warrantless search. A man is suing the city of Springfield, Illinois and the Springfield Police Department for what he says was the “desecration” of his child’s…
“What we’ve come to realize over the past decades is that police departments, with their oversized budgets and their outsized political power, are able to rise above reformist policies,” an organizer said. Monifa Bandele became a community organizer in the late 1990s, after New York City police fatally shot a young, unarmed Black immigrant named…
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones knows how to make a hit record just as well as he knows how to get the public’s attention with his off-the-wall anecdotes. Jones rarely does interviews now that he is 88 years old, but when he does it’s safe to say readers should expect a wild ride down Jones’…
