“He didn’t let anything stop him or slow him down. He was just all around a very loving and sweet boy,” said the boy’s mother A 6-year-old first-grader in North Carolina has died from COVID-19. The Charlotte student, Ethan Govan, passed away on Sept. 19, and was one of the youngest in his state to…
OPINION: Writer Dustin J. Seibert explains how bad takes are the only consistent thing about both rappers. Look, most people don’t get it all right all the time. I, too, was a Shaun King fan once. But most people aren’t off-base about damn near everything. And yet, it seems that every time T.I. or Boosie…
Source: Bloomberg / Getty Anti-Black racism just cost Telsa just under $137 million on Monday after a Black man who, in 2015, was contracted to work at the company’s Fremont, California, plant as an elevator operator, sued the company over the racial harassment he said he received while working there. According to Bloomberg Equality, Owen…
Wallace: “Finally, I’m a winner and I’m a winner in the Cup level” NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace became the second Black driver to win the Cup Series race in the sport. The historic achievement is Wallace’s first career win, according to a tweet from NASCAR. TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – OCTOBER 04: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 McDonald’s…
A lawsuit filed on Sept. 28 by the family of a man who died following his detention at a North Carolina jail blames jail staffers and detention officers for his death. John Neville, a 56-year-old father of five, stopped breathing at the Forsyth County Jail in December 2019 while he was being held for a pending…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The loss of celebrated actor Chadwick Boseman to cancer last year is still hard for many to fathom, but his memory is continuing to live on in ways that are sure to last forever. Following the renaming of its College Of Fine Arts center after the Black Panther actor,…
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty While legislators in states like Texas, Florida and Mississippi remind us that Republicans only advocate for small, non-intrusive governments after they’re done regulating women’s bodies and reproductive options, the Biden administration is lifting a Trump-era restriction barring clinics from referring pregnant women to abortion providers. Before we continue, let’s just…
“When you look at the experimentation that has happened to Black women, and Black people in general and to know some of the findings was from the torture of these people and to be overlooked the way that it has, it’s imperative that we change the narrative of health care,” said Michelle Browder, the artist…
“Black Ink Crew: Chicago” reality star Ryan Henry is speaking candidly about his recent sit down with his best friend Anthony Lindsey. As many fans of the popular reality show star may remember, Anthony exposed the tattoo boss for sleeping with his now ex-girlfriend Nina Marie while he battled cancer. In the teaser trailer for…
Alberto Friedmann resigned as a neurokinesiology teacher at the National University of Health Sciences in nearby Lombard before the school completed its investigation A suburban Chicago man charged last month with a hate crime after allegedly hurling racial slurs and spitting at a Black woman has quit his job as a college professor, according to…
