(Photo: Juliana for Illinois) If Stratton is elected, three Black women could serve concurrently in the Senate for the first time. Juliana Stratton, the lieutenant governor of Illinois, is running for the U.S. Senate in the 2026 election. Stratton officially launched her campaign on Thursday, just one day after Senator Dick Durbin, 80, announced that…
Kehlani arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) R&B singer Kehlani was scheduled to perform next month as the headliner at an annual celebration at the upstate New York school called Slope Day. Cornell University has canceled a performance by R&B star Kehlani after complaints…
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Donald Trump and his administration have been doing everything possible to dismantle, disrupt, and destroy the progress Black people in this country have made over the last century. A federal judge in New Hampshire has, at least temporarily, limited his ability to exact his racist revenge on public schools that…
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The decision is a setback for President Donald Trump, who has argued the requirement is needed to restore public confidence in elections. A judge on Thursday blocked the…
A Louisiana hairstylist attempted to chop off a child’s newly installed braids because the girl’s mother refused to pay a late fee. Conchota Singleton wrote on Facebook that her 11-year-old granddaughter was supposed to get her hair done at the Draft Picks barbershop in Baton Rouge on April 14, but the stylist canceled and requested…
Miles Caton attends the Warner Bros Pictures “Sinners” New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on April 03, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) After making his debut in Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster “Sinners,” actor Miles Caton says he’d love to star in the Marvel universe one day. In addition to…
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed executive orders purported to promote stricter school discipline — whatever that means. No, seriously, there’s nothing in these orders that unambiguously states what constitutes stricter school discipline. The only thing clear about the agenda behind the orders is also the most predictable thing: It’s more…
Karoline Leavitt takes a lot of heat for her role as President Donald Trump’s press secretary online and in the press. But much of the attention she receives goes beyond her job and delves into her personal life. Leavitt is 27 years old and the youngest person to be appointed press secretary in U.S. history….
Cellphone video showing police officers firing multiple shots at a fleeing man outside an Atlanta restaurant has surfaced online, sparking outrage. The footage, first posted by the Instagram page Atlanta Uncensored, shows a Black man running across the street before getting into a car parked at Memezz Restaurant on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW….
Source: Twitter / Twitter Tyre Nichols’ family will get another opportunity at justice, as the ex-officers accused of beating him to death are set to go to state trial Monday, April 28. Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, who represent the family of Tyre Nichols, told NewsOne that the trial was an important…
