Source: Eric Fougere – Corbis / Getty As the sports world celebrates Ilia Malinin for landing a backflip at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina and pushing the limits of figure skating with boundary-breaking athleticism, it’s worth noting something the headlines keep leaving out: Surya Bonaly, a Black woman, did it first. She did it…
The family of a white woman who was arrested after a viral video showed her berating and throwing beer on an elderly Black woman and her great-granddaughter at a Shreveport, Louisiana, Mardi Gras parade last weekend is now fighting back, saying the public shaming and backlash has gone too far. In the video, the woman,…
Gap and Harlem’s Fashion Row team up again. (Photo credit: Gap YouTube Screenshot) This marks the second capsule collection Gap and Harlem’s Fashion Row have released since their partnership first began in 2019. A year after debuting their first capsule collection, Gap and Harlem’s Fashion Row are teaming up once again, this time to celebrate…
The president of the United States is not known for his modesty, and his latest White House gathering was no exception. Donald Trump‘s obsession with awards is so grandiose that the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, gave up her award to him after he invaded her country and kidnapped…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said some wild things since he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race to endorse Donald Trump. And since working under him as secretary of Health and Human Services, the jokes pretty much write themselves once viewers get a load of his vocal cords screeching to get it out. Despite…
Source: Bill Clark / Getty If there’s anything to take away from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, it’s that she is a true member of the Trump administration. For roughly five hours, Bondi sat there with a resting frustrated mom face, looking at every lawmaker who questioned her with…
GLAAD announced 2026 Equity in Media & Entertainment Initiative (EMEI) cohort (Photot courtesy of GLAAD) GLAAD’s 2026 EMEI cohort provides funding and mentorship to 20 visual creatives expanding the boundaries of culture. By now, we know this much to be true: when Black folks create, culture shifts. And this year, GLAAD is making sure that…
Source: X / x Officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) have released a statement regarding 17-year-old Trevion Taylor’s troubling encounter with one of its officers. A video recorded by Trevion and shared by his mother, Ambar Taylor, on Facebook Feb. 6 shows Trevion and three friends being ordered out of a vehicle during…
A House Judiciary Committee hearing meant to address the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files detonated into a three-minute spectacle of stares, interruptions and barely disguised contempt — with Attorney General Pam Bondi planted at the center of it all. What started as pointed questioning quickly spiraled into a tense back-and-forth between Bondi, Democratic…
(Photo: Getty Images/Truth Social) The Truth Social posts come days after Trump received rebuke for posting a video that included an AI video depicting the Obamas as apes. After receiving widespread backlash for posting a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama, President Donald Trump has shared several posts with prominent Black celebrities in an…
