WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 10: Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on March 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) “Being the first Black woman to serve three consecutive terms–and while Trump has been in the White House–is a powerful statement about progress, resilience,…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 04: Funky Dineva attends the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 04, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for ESSENCE) “I’m sharing this information for educational purposes and not for sympathy,” the pop culture critic…
An interaction between two women at the opera — one Black and one white — is causing quite an uproar on social media. Longtime opera fan LaeTania Richardson, 53, recorded a conversation that provides a lesson on how to handle subtle racial microaggressions. LaeTania Richardson was questioned by a woman when attending an opera. (Photos:…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom took a moment to briefly pause his relentless trolling of Donald Trump, as the Democratic politician has turned his attention to two of the president’s Cabinet members. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 71, caught a stray from Newsom, 58, who posted a rather shocking, yet gross meme of the Secretary of Health…
Nothando Nhliziyo (Photo credit: Nothando Nhliziyo GoFundMe) Nothando Nhliziyo, a 22-year-old hairstylist from Leicester, England, is speaking out after she was dismissed four times. A young Black woman in the U.K. says she was dismissed by doctors four separate times before finally being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer — and only after she lied to…
FILE – Former NBA basketball player Rick Fox attends the Los Angeles Film Festival in Los Angeles, June 8, 2015. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) Fox made the announcement Monday on Facebook. Former NBA player Rick Fox announced he will run for a legislative seat in the Bahamas in next year’s general election. His candidacy comes as…
Lakesha Graves on WMDT speaking on the assault (Screenshot: WMDT) A group of teens and pre-teens were seen attacking mom, Lakesha Graves, and her daughter in Cambridge, Maryland. Shortly after a Chicago mother and her son were attacked by a group of teens, another mother and her children were assaulted by a group of juveniles…
A Black disabled veteran filed a $5 million lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings, alleging that he ordered takeout from their chain restaurants near Washington, D.C., only to find a racial slur printed on his receipt. According to the civil rights complaint obtained by The Independent, Marc Loman stated that he and his wife visited a…
President Donald Trump set off a political earthquake Monday morning after rage-posting so frantically that he accidentally boosted a post calling for his own impeachment — a blunder so messy critics said it looked like his brain just short-circuited. And within hours, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was in front of reporters nearly out…
Leon Wells Facebook The bill would require any hospital that provides obstetric, emergency, or labor and delivery services to have a “Safe Discharge Labor Plan before discharging a patient who presents with signs or symptoms of labor.” After videos of Black women in labor being refused care by hospitals across the country went viral, Rep….
