Source: Drew Angerer / Getty Longtime California Congresswoman Maxine Waters was present and accounted for this week during the sentencing of a man who was convicted for making racist death threats against her. Waters was bravely in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday when Brian Michael Gaherty, a white man from Houston, Texas, was told…
A video shared online shows a woman getting so upset that she couldn’t get a refund for a phone she purchased that she trashed the store and called the worker a racial slur in the process. A video shared to TikTok showed a blond woman wearing a blue coat and a pair of Mary Jane…
Vice President Kamala Harris joins a Juneteenth celebration and block party in Atlanta on June 18, 2024. | Source: Anadolu / Getty The Biden Campaign has debuted its latest celebration of Black American culture with a 60-second advertisement centered on Juneteenth, the nation’s most recent federal holiday that the president signed into law a few…
Most people know Eniko Hart as the wife of one of the biggest movie stars in the world: Kevin Hart. But the mother of two is so much more, living massively outside of the context of her spouse of eight years — a point made so clear during her visit to Carnival in Port of…
A Juneteenth flag flies on a float during the 45th annual Juneteenth National Independence Day celebrations in Galveston, Texas, on June 15, 2024. | Source: MARK FELIX / Getty Black Americans celebrated Juneteenth long before it became a federal holiday. The day commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger issued an order…
Source: Bettmann / Getty Juneteenth and I have this memory about an exhibit I once viewed about slavery at the New York City Historical Society. New York once held the distinction of having the most slaves in the North. It was second only to South Carolina. And long after the transport of enslaved Africans was…
The Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 to win the 2024 NBA Finals, but it was Jayson Tatum’s rumored girlfriend, singer Ella Mai, and her baby bump that took center stage. On June 17, the Celtics power forward saved arguably his best performance for what turned out to be the deciding game of the…
Source: Jason Armond / Getty Nas announced that he has plans to bring an adaptation of the iconic Hip-Hop film Beat Street to Broadway. While making an appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival last Friday (June 14) for a special screening of the film Beat Street, Nas announced his plans to bring the film to…
A Texas man who called Rep. Maxine Waters several times in 2022 to threaten to kill her will spend close to three years behind bars. A judge sentenced 61-year-old Brian Michael Gaherty to 33 months in prison on Monday. Gaherty pleaded guilty to one count of threatening a United States official in January after confessing…
Sag Harbor Police Headquarters, where singer Justin Timberlake reportedly spent the night in custody after being charged with drunk driving in Sag Harbor, New York, on June 18, 2024. | Source: ADAM GRAY / Getty The news that pop superstar Justin Timberlake had been arrested for suspicion of driving while intoxicated was being hailed on…
