Jill Scott performs onstage during Day 2 of the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Caesars Superdome on July 05, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images for ESSENCE) Jill Scott recalls a time when high praise was taken as less than a compliment while promoting her new…
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 09: (L-R) Delroy Lindo and Ryan Coogler attend The Critics Choice Association’s 8th annual celebration of Black Cinema & Television at Fairmont Century Plaza on December 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association)Photo by: Randy Shropshire / Getty Images While onstage accepting…
Coco Gauff, of the United States, reacts during a match against Naomi Osaka, of Japan, in the fourth round of the US Open tennis championships, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) American tennis star Coco Gauff issued a social media clarification about her remarks on U.S. tennis fan support ahead of…
Donald Trump has built a career on commanding rooms, but this time the cameras caught something quieter — and stranger — as the president appeared to drift off mid-briefing, upright, eyes fluttering, while the country watched. During a Jan. 3 morning conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump addressed reporters about the…
Actress Hilary Swank went into protective mommy mode after mistaking a woman for taking pictures of her young kids. On Dec. 10, a woman by the name of Jada Bafus alleged that Swank was the aggressor during an incident at Los Angeles Airport, where she first noticed the Oscar winner. Bafus explained that she was…
Images from the control sector of Donald Trump’s war room at Mar-a-Lago have left observers saying the scene looks less like senior officials crafting a strategy and more like an awkward case of amateurs after hours. Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and others were seen in black-and-white and colored images…
Three Black workers at a Little Caesars Pizza in Mount Vernon, Washington, were called racial slurs, including “darky” and “slaves,” and endured other racial harassment from white managers, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the franchise owner. The EEOC is suing Target Market Enterprises, Inc., which owns nine…
(Photos: Instagram) The American College of Nurse-Midwives called Dr. Green Smith’s death a “profound failure of the systems meant to protect birthing people.” Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM, a South Carolina midwife who was passionate about her work, family, photography, travels, has died from complications related to childbirth. Proudly calling herself a “Loc’d” Midwife,” she…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 03: Sheinelle Jones attends the 2023 Broadcasting + Cable Hall Of Fame Gala at The Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 03, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)Photo by: Arturo Holmes / Getty Images The Today co-host shared a heartfelt Instagram tribute honoring her maternal grandmother, Josephine…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s brief foray into fashion commentary was short-lived after she faced backlash for criticizing New York City first lady Rama Duwaji over the designer boots she wore to her husband Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. Mamdani was sworn in as New York’s 112th mayor at a…
