Teyana Taylor has pulled a major prank on her fans. After fans have begged the singer and dancer for her and her husband, NBA player Iman Shumpert, to join in on the “Silhouette” challenge,Taylor has finally delivered, but not in the way that fans had hoped. On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Taylor tweeted, “Y’all been blowing…
Comedy Central’s progressive content apparently doesn’t beget a diverse company culture. In a new report by Business Insider, the publication spoke to current and former employees of Comedy Central’s creative team who alleged that they faced numerous microaggressions and “discriminatory behavior from co-workers from within the company.” POLAND – 2020/03/23: In this photo illustration a…
Black farmers today are rare — but it wasn’t always this way. In 1920, Black-owned farms made up 14 percent of the industry. However, decades of racial violence, discrimination and a shift away from an overall agrarian society have caused that number to dwindle to under 2 percent today. Now, advocates for the marginalized group…
GOP-controlled state legislatures aim to pick up where the now-disbanded 1776 Commission left off. Republican lawmakers in several states are moving forward with legislation that would implement similar efforts. Bills proposed in Arkansas, Iowa and Mississippi prevent the use of the 1619 project as a part of teaching the legacy of slavery. The Arkansas legislature…
Steven Gayle unknowingly had his microphone on and repeated the slur more than once during a brief intermission A consultant has been fired after saying the n-word during a virtual meeting of the Vermont Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday. Read More: Country music star Morgan Wallen’s career plummets overnight after using N-word According to VT…
The former Ohio police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Black man within seconds of seeing him last month had his bond set at a whopping $3 million on Friday afternoon as the prosecutor in Columbus kept the murder case moving swiftly. Former Columbus Police Officer Adam Coy was indicted earlier this week for…
The couple became an item in 2017 Actress Karrueche Tran and Super Bowl champion Victor Cruz have called it quits. The couple recently decided to call it quits after being in a relationship for three years. Sources close to them say there is no love lost but they have decided to split to focus on their careers. “Right…
Political analyst Van Jones was confronted with a sobering reality during a Friday appearance on “The View” Friday, after co-host Sunny Hostin questioned him regarding accusations of being a “political opportunist.” Van Jones forged into national prominence during the Obama administration where he served as the Special Adviser for Green Jobs in 2009. However in…
A North Carolina man who spent nearly five years in prison after being wrongfully convicted for assaulting an elderly white woman in 2015 is speaking publicly about his ordeal after he was released from the Mecklenburg County jail last month. Willie Shaw, a 48-year-old certified nurse assistant, spoke on SiriusXM Urban View’s “The Clay Cane…
Kimberly Diei filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the University of Tennessee Pharmacy School that twice investigated her digital content. A graduate student at the University of Tennessee has filed a lawsuit against the institution for violating her First Amendment rights after her social media content led to two investigations and an expulsion. Read More:…
