Another Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, another tone-deaf tweet incorrectly co-opting the civil rights icon’s famous words. In what has all but become a tried and true American tradition, the NFL on Monday showed itself to be one of the most recent white entities to espouse Dr. King’s verbal brilliance while at the same…
Over the weekend, Bow Wow found himself the target of yet another online dragging when social media users slammed the rapper after he received an online warning from Houston, Texas, Mayor Sylvester Turner for performing at a packed nightclub. Turner reprimanded the “Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta” star and his promotional team on Sunday. Jan. 17, in…
Committee chairs want to know if the Capitol stormers had internal assistance and if warnings were dismissed. The U.S. House of Representatives is launching a probe into the “high-level failures” that led to the insurrection at the Capitol Building that left five people dead, including a police officer. In a letter released on Saturday, House…
Capricorn season is in full effect, and comedian and talk show host Steve Harvey is living it up. One of the “Original Kings of Comedy” celebrated 64 years on earth with his wife Marjorie Harvey, 56, on what appears to be a private yacht. “Help me wish Hubby a Happy 64th Birthday ,” Marjorie captioned…
Her Twitter persona became a viral sensation. Now, Warwick appears ready to rock another social media app. After taking social media by storm late last year, Dionne Warwick took to Twitter last weekend to officially announce she is joining TikTok. Warwick’s persona on Twitter became a viral sensation in December. From her tweeting about Chance…
A 25-year-old military vet is charged with attempted murder after shooting a Black teenager at rally for President Donald Trump near the state Capitol in Iowa last month. Michael McKinney, a St. Charles, Iowa, resident, told police he fired into a car of Black teens at the Dec. 6 rally in Des Moines in self-defense….
Source: David J. Becker / Getty Howard University alumni and students who were likely disappointed that the famous HBCU‘s annual homecoming festivities were canceled last fall, it looks like they’re getting a second chance at it on Inauguration Day on Wednesday. That’s when one of its own, Kamala Harris, will officially be sworn into office…
A police officer witnessed Scott Marberblatt spitting on Marcus Johnson, who self-quarantined and took a COVID-19 test. A Trump supporter in Massachusetts who spit and coughed on a Black man in December has been charged with assault and battery. Marcus Johnson was counter-protesting at a pro-President Donald Trump rally in Swampscott, carrying a sign that…
White Americans must more deeply understand Dr. King’s philosophies and values, as well as his critiques of them “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” is the…
‘I invite us to stop asking ‘What is wrong with them?’ and instead relentlessly ask, ‘What is wrong with us?” Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga was honored Sunday at the 2021 Beloved Community Awards organized by the King Center, and she decried white supremacy in her acceptance speech. The singer/actress was awarded the Yolanda Denise…
