OPINION: The central question for us, as Black people, is always when does loyalty to the community stop and obligation to self begin? Let me start with a serious question. Is it ever OK for a high-profile Black icon and a historic first like former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to defend companies or brands…
NHL honors league’s first Black player, and the Boston Bruins retire his jersey Willie O’Ree broke the barrier as the first Black hockey player in the National Hockey League in 1958, and he has remained a catalyst for change as a diversity ambassador during his retirement. A member of Boston’s team, O’Ree paved the way…
Meagan Good‘s beauty left an imprint on her followers’ minds on Sunday, Feb. 27, after the actress shared a post from her red carpet appearance at the NAACP Awards. In the Instagram upload, Good, who was seen striking several poses for the cameras, wore a coral-patterned cut-out dress by fashion designer Maria Lucia Hohan from…
Source: Stephanie Keith / Getty There’s a reason the Proud Boys putting some Afro-Cuban sunken place weirdo on its leadership team hasn’t convinced anyone that it’s not a white nationalist group. They behave like they’re Black Lives Matter’s arch-nemesis (even though BLM treats them more like a D-list villain nobody but dedicated comic book nerds…
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…
