The highly anticipated opera has received rave reviews from NPR, The New York Times, and more Terence Blanchard is making history at the Met. Fire Shut Up in My Bones, a new opera that centers Blackness, has finally made its debut at the Met Opera stage. Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the new opera…
“I first signed to a record label,” Ashanti recalled in a recent “Tamron Hall Show” appearance, “when I was 14 years old.” Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Ashanti is preparing to re-record and independently re-release her 2002 eponymous debut album after regaining ownership of the masters. “I first signed to a record label when I…
The viral video coming out of Woodson Terrace, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, that shows a Black man being bitten by a police K9 dog several times while under arrest, has sparked outrage on the ground and online. According to Woodson Terrace Police, officers responded to a trespassing call at 7:18 the morning of…
Source: DEREK HENKLE / Getty As the world continues to grapple with the news of R Kelly’s about-timely legal demise and his decades-long reign as the Pied Predator, everyone has an opinion and, unfortunately, this includes celebrities who have trash takes and massive platforms to share them on. In today’s episode of Keep It In…
Chequile Pettaway spent weeks comatose after testing positive for the virus one week before her newborn baby son’s delivery date. A Houston-area mother got to meet her newborn son last week after spending more than a month hospitalized in a fight against COVID-19. Chequile Pettaway spent weeks in a medically-induced coma after testing positive for…
Trump, she said after the arbitration ruling, “has used this type of vexatious litigation to intimidate, harass and bully for years!” Omarosa Manigault Newman has triumphed in arbitration after former President Donald Trump, her previous mentor, moved to enforce a non-disclosure agreement against her in the wake of the 2018 release of the book she…
Tami Roman marked National Daughters Day on Sunday, Sept. 25, by uploading a photo with her daughters, Lyric Anderson, 26, and 25-year-old Jazz Anderson. In honor of “National Daughters Day,” a day where individuals celebrate and cherish their daughters, Roman shared a brief but sweet message with photos showing the three wearing all-white ensembles. Tami…
As analysts point to white fear as the motive behind the movement to dictate how race intersects with history is taught in K-12 schools, more than a dozen GOP lawmakers are backing a bill that would defund U.S. schools that promote critical race theory. The NO Corrupt Racist Training (NO CRT) Act, proposed by Republican…
The nation’s police officers appear to be open to long-requested legislation. Republican Senator Tim Scott, however, no longer is. A bill intended to reform policing in America that won bipartisan support in the wake of the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis — which caused protests across the U.S. and even across…
Princess Blanding of the Libertarian Party angrily decried her virtual silencing after security removed her from the Virginia gubernatorial debate. The final gubernatorial debate in Alexandria, Virginia between former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the state’s Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, was interrupted Tuesday evening by the passionate hopeful from a third-party: Princess Blanding of the…
