Source: Tom Williams / Getty The news that Doug Jones was President-elect Joe Biden‘s choice to be the next U.S. attorney general quickly drew attention to the former Alabama senator’s successful prosecution of former KKK members who bombed a historic Black church in Birmingham that killed four little Black girls in 1963. New: NBC’s @GeoffRBennett…
The ‘Verzuz‘ battle between Ashanti and Keyshia Cole is set to take place on Saturday, Dec. 12. Some of the participants are already rehearsing some of their most significant hits or, in Keyshia’s case, their competitor’s hits. The “Love and Hip Hop” alum recently appeared on an Instagram Live session obtained by an Ashanti fan account titled “ashantivibess,” in…
The venue was cited by officials for improper conduct, disorderly activities, and violating its liquor permit. In Columbus, Ohio, a venue hosted an R&B concert, which hosted 500 people despite the coronavirus pandemic. According to The Columbus Dispatch, singer Trey Songz performed for a large crowd in violation of COVID-19 mandates. The Ohio Investigative Unit…
The discussion surrounding who should and shouldn’t use the N-word has been going on for decades. While most feel as though the use of the derogatory term should be left to the Black community’s discretion, gray areas emerge when a person of mixed race enters the chat. Jhene Aiko seemingly found herself in a similar position,…
VH1 “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” star Sierra Gates and fashion connoisseur Romel “BK Brasco” Cummings are engaged and causing a frenzy on the internet. Brasco popped the question on Saturday, Dec. 5, during the grand opening of his new boutique, Band of Brothers, in the upscale Buckhead district of Atlanta. Sierra Gates shows off…
OPINION: Michael Eric Dyson says President-elect Biden is already building a diverse administration and expressed frustrations about his selections are premature “You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours.” In all my years of listening to presidential rhetoric, and in all my studies of presidents interacting with Black folk, I’d never heard a president…
New details are emerging in the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man who was killed by a Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy in Columbus, Ohio. Deputy Jason Meade is named as the officer who fatally shot Goodson on that fateful day. Goodson was apparently inside his home holding a sandwich when he…
A 23-year-old Black man was recently shot and killed by an Ohio deputy working on a fugitive task force. Casey Christopher Goodson Jr., was not the target of the U.S. Marshals bounty hunt, but authorities said he brandished a weapon as they called the shooting justified. Goodson’s family members, some of whom say they witnessed…
‘I just found it really ironic that she chose three Black women to reach out to for her redemption story.’ Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli appeared on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk this week, but if she expected to be treated gently, she had another thing coming. Although the Facebook Watch series has…
‘American Skin’ marks Parker’s return after the 2016 film ‘Birth of a Nation’ and the controversy that followed Four years after Birth of a Nation and the controversy that followed, Nate Parker is set to star in a new film, American Skin. The first trailer for the film was released today, and the feature was…
