Source: Dusan Stankovic / Getty When it comes to breast cancer, Black women have the highest mortality rate of any group. According to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, breast cancer cases declined 40 percent in the past 30 years. Despite medical advancements in treatment and screenings, significant disparities in mortality rates continue. As Breast Cancer…
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union’s daughter, Kaavia James Wade‘s recent hair post, goes left after fans view the toddler’s facial expression. In the Instagram upload, Kaavia James, who is rocking her natural curls, appeared to be glaring at her hairstylist, K’Tiste, while she added the finishing touches. Kaavia James Wade’s latest hairstyle video gets derailed…
Source: Halfpoint Images / Getty One year ago this month, Media 2070 launched with a 100-page essay calling for media reparations and documenting how the media system harms Black lives. Since then, the need for a just media economy has only grown more apparent. Over the past month, we watched in horror the video of U.S. Border Patrol agents…
Two children were killed and eight people injured when a driver lost control during a drag race A driver lost control during a Texas drag racing event on an airport runway and slammed into a crowd of spectators, killing two children and injuring eight other people, authorities said. A 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy…
As the Atlanta Braves advance to the World Series, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp can’t stop thinking about Stacey Abrams and the lost All Star Game The state of Georgian had reason to celebrate Saturday night after the Atlanta Braves won the pennant to advance to the World Series. Gov. Brian Kemp, however, found a way…
A 98-year-old Tuskegee Airman was honored by his hometown high school for his achievements and contribution to United States history. Retired Lieutenant Colonel James Harvey III, 98, returned to Fairview High School in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, to be recognized along with two other unnamed school district graduates who “have gone on to really accomplish some…
The Frazier family welcomes the charges as a first step toward justice for the death of Leneal Frazier, the uncle of Darnella Frazier A Minneapolis police officer has been charged with manslaughter and vehicular homicide for a crash in July that killed an innocent motorist while the officer was pursuing a stolen vehicle, a prosecutor announced Friday….
The “Fast & Furious” actor stands in for late co-star, friend in Meadow Walker’s wedding In the Fast & Furious film franchise, Vin Diesel‘s character, Dominic Toretto, always refers to his heist team as his family. That sentiment extended into real life for his co-star and close friend, the late Paul Walker. As a familial…
Christian Smalls, the nascent union’s president, wants to “lead the way” without direction from established unions A bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City neared an important milestone, as organizers prepared to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board as soon as Monday for authorization to…
Tsitsi Dangarembga is the first Black woman to win the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Accepting a prestigious German prize Sunday in honor of her work, Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga called for a “new Enlightenment,” saying a fundamental shift is needed to overcome the structures of racial hierarchy that have led…
