Zendaya mourns legendary singer Ronnie Spector in a heartfelt tribute ahead of her portrayal of the musical icon in an upcoming A24-produced biopic. “This news just breaks my heart. To speak about her as if she’s not with us feels strange as she is so incredibly full of life. There’s not a time I saw…
OPINION: Black people shouldn’t feel guilty about having strict boundaries with white friends to protect their inner peace. It’s hard being friends with white people. I mean being really close — to where you really let them into your heart of hearts. We as Black people love to talk about “the cookout” in terms of…
The Senate has passed a bill to posthumously award Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley with the Congressional Gold Medal. Till’s murder and his mother’s decision to have an open-casket funeral because she “wanted the world to see what they did to my baby” played a crucial part in kickstarting the civil rights movement. …
Boooooy, the GOP sure can pick’em, can’t they? I’ve often said that when the white conservatives start looking to diversify and start scouring the sunken place for Black friends to parade around, they don’t need their negro mascots to be qualified, knowledgeable or even sensible—they just need them to be Black and conservative. But when…
Brooks, best known for starring in “Orange is the New Black,” shared pics of her two wedding gowns Thursday on Instagram. Danielle Brooks, the actress best known for her role as Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on the Netflix hit series, Orange is the New Black, recently announced her marriage to fiancé Dennis Gelin. The couple, who…
Vivica Fox has moved on from her relationship with 50 Cent and she wants everyone else to as well. The actress appeared on “The Real” daytime talk show on Wednesday, Jan. 12, and discussed things like motherhood and learning how to take vacations by herself. However, the conversation, as it does many times in interviews,…
Mosby, Baltimore’s top prosecutor, faces two counts of perjury and two counts of making false mortgage loan applications. Baltimore’s top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has been indicted on federal charges of perjury and making false statements with a series of financial transactions. The 41-year-old state’s attorney allegedly claimed that she experienced financial hardship due to the…
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick speaks with the media after being declared the winner of the South Florida 20th Congressional District by the Broward elections Canvassing Board on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Lauderhill. | Source: Sun Sentinel / Getty In the latest indication that some Republicans still loyally use former President Donald Trump’s “big lie” logic about…
Renowned professor Celia Dial Saxon is being honored with the renaming of a residence hall after her, following a unanimous vote by the board of trustees at the University of South Carolina to name the upperclassmen dormitory after the distinguished educator. Saxon, who taught in Columbia, South Carolina, for over five decades, was described as…
Source: Andrew Burton / Getty The new federal indictment accusing Baltimore’s top prosecutor of committing perjury and making false statements on a COVID-19 loan application is the culmination of a failed investigation that was partially rooted in racism from political operatives desperate to make any charges stick, an attorney representing Marilyn Mosby suggested while responding…
