Source: Jason Armond / Getty Let’s stop pretending we weren’t warned. Back in 2024, when the National Association of Black Journalists rolled out the stage and microphone for Donald Trump, rank-and-file members and leaders said exactly what would happen next. Critics said you cannot platform a man who has built a political career on humiliating,…
For six days, Cheree Byrd pleaded to corrections officers from an upstate New York jail cell that her water broke and that she was going into labor and that she needed to be transported to the hospital to give birth to a premature baby. But the corrections officers did not believe the 35-year-old Black woman…
Source: Klaus Tiedge / Getty The first story of child abuse I read last month arrived in the way so many do now, with video. Grainy footage from a Ring doorbell camera showed a man beating a three-year-old boy who had been left in his care. The man was a U.S. Army sergeant stationed at…
50 Cent celebrates New Year’s Eve at E11EVEN on December 31, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images for E11EVEN) 50 Cent cashes in on his many different beefs over the years in new DoorDash Super Bowl ad ahead of the big game. 50 Cent is delivering the beef directly to his opps….
(L-R) Ruby Bridges and Steph Curry pose after Black Heritage Night celebration (Screenshot: Golden State Warriors/Facebook) On Feb. 4, during the 76ers-Warriors game, the San Francisco team honored civil rights icon Ruby Bridges. This Black History Month, as we honor the work and sacrifices of the generations that came before us, the Golden State Warriors…
Rev. James Lawson Jr. was a central figure of the Civil Rights Movement, whose efforts in that period have been documented. An upcoming memoir from the late activist and professor, Nonviolent, arrives on shelves this month and delves into Rev. James Lawson Jr.’s life and work within the nonviolent resistance movement and beyond. Nonviolent: A…
Source: Anadolu / Getty Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has not been shy about publicly opposing the Trump administration and its authoritarian policies and practices. He was one of the first local leaders to state plainly that the National Guard was neither necessary nor welcome in his city. He also has shown that he won’t let…
Department of Justice chief Pam Bondi stuttered and sweated recently on Fox News as she tried to justify the arrest of journalist Don Lemon for covering an anti-ICE protest in January at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. During a Feb. 2 interview on “Hannity,” as the U.S. attorney general is huffing and puffing her…
Donald Trump’s official spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, struck back at celebrities like Benito “Bad Bunny” Ocasio just days ahead of his highly-anticipated performance at the Super Bowl. Bad Bunny, 31, won three golden gramophones at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 1, including Best Música Urbana Album. The Puerto Rican rapper hit the stage to…
✕ White people have always been a little sensitive when it comes to Black history. They love the mythology of Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves, but they don’t want to get too into the weeds about the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade. They know Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, but don’t want…
