Source: recep-bg / Getty Another day, another institution of learning catches heat over a racist and arbitrary policy against Black hairstyles. While Republican legislators are blocking the passing of the Crown Act, which would prohibit employers and schools from banning protective hairstyles like braids and locs as well as afros, a Florida high school is…
The bill, HB 1354, creates clearer guidelines and standardizes compensation for those wrongfully convicted of crimes. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives in Georgia cleared the way for a bill that would give exonerated former inmates $50,000 to 100,000 for each year they wrongly spent in jail, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The bill, HB…
A former Ku Klux Klan leader has qualified to run for office in North Georgia. Chester Doles once held the title of Grand Klaliff of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and now he wants to be a Lumpkin County commissioner. Chester Doles is a political candidate who once lead the Ku…
EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris, along with department officials, announced that “Project Serve Grants” will provide up to $150,000 per school. The Biden-Harris administration is leaning in on addressing the countless bomb threats made against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority and religious institutions this year. In response to the threats of…
The child was on her period at the time she was made to undress without another adult present, according to a review. Scotland Yard has apologized for its officers’ strip-search of a Black schoolgirl who was wrongly accused of carrying cannabis. The child was on her period at the time she was made to undress…
Billionaire artist Rihanna has conquered the charts, fashion runways and the beauty industry. Now, the 34-year-old is gearing up to master motherhood and become the type of mom that you don’t want to mess with. In an exclusive interview with Elle magazine, the nine-time Grammy Award winner shared what kind of mother she thinks she is going…
The revived unit focused on gun crimes comes as shootings and crime continue to surge in the city since Adams took office. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has fulfilled a campaign pledge to revive a controversial NYPD gun crime task force that was disbanded in 2020 under former Mayor Bill de Blasio over public…
Samuel L. Jackson and Latonya Richardson Jackson are truly a #Spelhouse dream couple. The two met each other on the campuses of Spelman College and Morehouse College in 1968, started dating in 1970, and have been together ever since. US actor Samuel L. Jackson and his wife US actress LaTanya Richardson attend the premiere of “Shaft” at AMC…
The only cure for sickle cell disease is a bone marrow transplant from a matched sibling; Helen Nduku didn’t have one. Sickle cell disease had a devastating effect on 17-year-old Helen Nduku’s life. The disease often landed her in the hospital, sometimes for weeks. “Imagine someone squeezing and stabbing you at the same time,” the…
OPINION: The former NFL star—who doesn’t understand how evolution works when he asked, “Why are there still apes?”—could be the next senator from Georgia simply because some voters won’t hold candidates to a reasonable standard of competence. Right now, former NFL running back and all-around football legend Herschel Walker—a man who has never served in…
