WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks as Tiger Woods (R) looks on during a reception honoring Black History Month in the East Room of the White House on February 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) “It’s not enough to declare a month of recognition when the…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced Wednesday it is ratcheting up its ongoing investigation into alleged race discrimination against white employees at sports shoe and apparel giant Nike. On Feb. 4, the EEOC filed an action in federal court in Missouri to compel NIKE, Inc. to produce information related to allegations of “intentional…
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty The Super Bowl is right around the corner, which means it’s time for the yearly pregame interview with the president. A preview of President Donald Trump’s interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas was released on Thursday, and in it Trump spoke on several topics, including the growing backlash against ICE….
Tomi Adeyemi, “The Siren” book cover. (Photo credit: Getty Images/Henry Holt and Company) Expected this fall, the bestselling author of the “Legacy of Orïsha” series, Tomi Adeyemi, announces her first standalone novel, “The Siren.” Tomi Adeyemi is returning to a bookshelf near you very soon. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, the 32-year-old bestselling author of the…
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 Sheinelle Jones honors the hospice team that cared for her late her husband…
Medgar Evers was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith in 1963. (Photos: Getty Images & Adobe Stock) Critics say new edits to National Park Service materials strip away the violent, racist reality of Medgar Evers’ murder. On this day (Feb. 5) in 1994, Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist who killed NAACP leader Medgar…
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….
