With two Hollywood awards ceremonies in one weekend, there were plenty of looks to love—so who understood the assignment? One weekend, two major Hollywood red carpets and dozens of stunning looks. Our stars were out to play this weekend at Saturday night’s NAACP Image Awards and Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, with a few doubling…
While tens of thousands of Ukrainians try to escape violence amid their country’s conflict with Russia, African immigrants in Ukraine said they have been blocked from fleeing the country because of their skin color. Videos circulating on social media show Ukrainian authorities forming human barriers between African immigrants and Ukrainians, hindering Africans from getting on…
Source: Icon Sports Wire / Getty Maurice Creek never imagined that his love for basketball would one day place him smack-dab in the middle of a war halfway across the world. Creek, an Oxon Hill, Maryland native, has been playing basketball professionally in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague since 2019. Now the former Indian Hoosier is…
The HBCU’s effort comes as state legislators are banning books by Black authors and working to eliminate the teaching of CRT. Howard University will make media from Black newspapers across the diaspora more accessible through a five-year project to scan and digitize the historical records. According to a report from USA Today, the Washington D.C.-based…
Actor Samuel L. Jackson, a man known for saying an expletive or two, has weighed in on the Joe Rogan controversy. Recently, the white shock jock’s name was plastered across national headlines after clips of him saying the N-word were leaked on social media. The compiled excerpts from various episodes of his podcast where he…
Forty-five years ago, big-name Black actors like John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen, Leslie Uggams, Maya Angelou, Ernest Lee Thomas, Richard Roundtree, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs and LeVar Burton all starred in the revolutionary ABC mini-series “Roots.” The predominantly Black cast participated in an eight consecutive-nights television viewing event that brought in over…
The recently taped “Martin” reunion special, hosted by Affion Crockett, is slated to air on BET+ this year. The cast of the hit ’90s TV show Martin recently taped a special to celebrate the Fox comedy’s 30th anniversary. According to Deadline, the reunion show, hosted by Affion Crockett, is slated to air on BET+ later this…
An Illinois high school freshman in suburban Chicago claims that police offered him food from a fast-food restaurant in exchange for a confession to a crime he did not do. Despite being wrongfully incarcerated for two nights in a jail cell, the boy’s social media and basketball schedule were used as evidence that he did…
Tyler Perry’s new film “A Madea Homecoming” just dropped, and he surprised fans during the credits with a Beyoncé-inspired performance of “Machella.” But of course Perry had to take the skit to new levels by creating an entire re-enactment of Ms. Knowles-Carter’s 2018 Coachella performance done fully costumed as the character that is at the…
Source: WOJTEK RADWANSKI / Getty As the world stands in solidarity with Ukraine and its people, the growing refugee crisis spotlight racial bias and inequality in who is and isn’t allowed to cross international borders. Several accounts surfaced online over the weekend of African students and students from the Middle East and India being denied…
