(Photo: Adobe Stock) A new bill requiring cosmetology schools in New York State to teach how to style textured hair takes effect on Sept. 1. Shortly after winning her first election to the New York State Assembly in November 2012, Michaelle C. Solages walked into her campaign office dressed professionally and with her hair in…
For the second time in less than a month, video captured an Arkansas state trooper punching a Black person in the face during a traffic stop. The latest incident occurred on Aug. 19, when an Arkansas State Police trooper punched 24-year-old Tedrick Washington in the face while trying to force him out of a shattered…
Source: Michael Reaves / Getty The WNBA has officially hit pause, but not before Week 14 gave us one more loaded stretch of basketball. With the league beginning a 16-day break for the FIBA World Cup, every team has now played 40 games and has just four remaining when action resumes September 17. More importantly,…
Mariah Carey has fans convinced the holiday season is approaching early after the singer shared her latest end-of-summer photos. The Queen of Christmas sits just months away from bringing back her signature holiday hits. But the 57-year-old vocalist may already be getting into character for the annual transformation. Mariah Carey shows off her weight loss…
✕ This week at Bowie State University (BSU), Urban One launched ONE Yard: The HBCU Experience — a two-city tour that students said left them feeling fulfilled and engaged. The six-hour event drew approximately 400 students, alumni and staff to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. From live music to interactive activities to free food,…
A Virginia jury rejected a man’s self-defense claim after he shot a group of teenagers who scaled his 6-foot fence at 3 a.m. while he and his mother were home. A Spotsylvania County Circuit Court jury convicted Tyler Butler of second-degree murder Thursday. He reportedly fired 10 rounds at 18-year-old Michael Bosworth Jr. on May…
Source: NurPhoto / Getty Things had been relatively quiet in the Middle East over the last month, and with the perpetual clown show that is the Trump administration making a daily spectacle out of itself by renaming random lakes and making MAGA’s xenophobic culture war its entire personality, one could almost forget there was a…
Nolan Wells’ mother is pushing back against critics who have turned their attention to her marriage as she continues searching for answers about her son’s death. Christine Wonsley made a Facebook post on Monday responding to a picture someone took with her sitting next to an unidentified male. “If you’re going to take pics make…
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Hip-Hop began as a platform for Black youth to document their daily survival under poverty and city neglect, offering a raw dispatch from the streets, capturing police abuse and surveillance, prison expansion, and the systemic pressures facing politically maligned Black neighborhoods. By the time Hip-Hop was born on the streets…
Nixon says Greene’s defense surprised her as she calls for “willful accomplices” to push back against attacks targeting Black women. After conservative firebrand Laura Loomer attacked U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Angie Nixon and other prominent Black women in politics as “ghetto Black bitches,” an unforeseen defender emerged in former Republican U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene….
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