‘We’re living in an important moment in Black art because we’re living in an important moment in Black life,’ shares Gorman Amanda Gorman stole the show at President Joe Biden’s inauguration with her poem The Hill We Climb. During an intimate interview with the former first lady Michelle Obama, the pair discusses the Black experience in America, touches on…
A little more than a week after the city of Rochester, New York, launched a program to de-escalate police interventions with residents suffering from mental health issues, it failed the first big test. A 9-year-old girl who police say family told them may harm herself or others was handcuffed, pepper-sprayed and manhandled by officers instead…
Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Newly elected Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of her committee assignments on Thursday, following a contentious battle between Republicans and Democrats in Congress. The resolution passed 230-199, with 11 Republicans voting with Democrats. Greene was assigned to serve on the on the Education and Labor Committee, as well…
Dazarrea Ervins whose son attends the school said what made the assignment even more piercing is the fact it happened on the first day of Black History month Madison, Wisconsin teachers are on leave after creating an assignment asking students how to punish slaves appropriately. Sixth-grade students at Patrick Marsh Middle School were studying the…
The chamber’s near party-line 230-199 vote was the latest instance of conspiracy theories becoming pitched political battlefields A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she’d earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. Underscoring the political vise her inflammatory commentary has clamped her…
The latest installment of the ‘Real Housewives’ franchise concludes its first season Bravo’s latest Housewives installment is officially not a freshman anymore. After 13 episodes, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City came to a close last night with an epic finale featuring one last showdown. Read More: RHOSLC: Mary Cosby stays home while the…
Lil Uzi Vert decided that it would be the best thing for him to implant a massive diamond smack dab in the middle of his forehead, and, boy, does the internet have thoughts. Although this isn’t the first time the 26-year-old “That’s It” rapper, born Symere Bysil Woods, has taken risks with his look, he…
Gillum and his wife R. Jai are in therapy following the scandal that derailed the career of the former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and his wife R. Jai Gillum have come to a place of honesty in their marriage in the aftermath of the politician being found half-naked, drunk, and unresponsive in a hotel…
OPINION: Despite contradictions and open questions, Blow’s latest book is powerful with enticing arguments buoyed by accessible and pressing prose Charles Blow states that he is not an activist or a revolutionary, but his second book has a clear activist agenda. It’s in the title and on every page. “The Devil You Know: A Black…
The late actor has been racking up award nominations after his untimely passing Chadwick Boseman continues to receive acknowledgement for his phenomenal work. Boseman received four 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations on Thursday, per Variety. The late actor has been racking up award nominations after his untimely passing. He is the first person to…
