Civil right attorney Ben Crump and tort attorney Paul Napoli filed a lawsuit on behalf of the National Council of Negro Women against Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey on July 27, alleging the pharmaceutical company marketed talcum-based baby powder to Black women despite links to ovarian cancers. The NCNW was founded in 1935 and…
Tina Knowles-Lawson is calling out Disney+ “with love” for not promoting “Black Is King” adequately. On Saturday, July 31, Knowles celebrated the one-year anniversary of her daughter Beyoncé’s visual on Instagram, where she also took to the time to question Disney+, in a now-deleted caption, on why the brand fell short in promoting the film….
Source: Screenshot / Windsor Police Department An all too familiar phrase, routine traffic stops are often anything but for Black drivers. A new study from the American Psychological Association found that police are more hostile when speaking to Black men than their white counterparts. Researchers examined the tone and intonation in a speech during…
Rashad Bailey opened Dinner & a Movie in Chicago’s gentrified neighborhood of Lincoln Park just under four months ago. In that time Bailey says he has endured countless false complaints about his business. “That same day we opened [April 30] is when the police started coming,” Bailey told Block Club Chicago. The people Bailey suspects…
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act clocked in at some 2,700 pages, and senators could begin amending it soon After much delay, senators unveiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, wrapping up days of painstaking work on the inches-thick bill and launching what is certain to be a lengthy debate over President Joe Biden’s big…
The Ethiopian-born 28-year-old scored not one, but two remarkable victories Monday Everyone should have known it would be hard to keep distance runner Sifan Hassan down for long at these Olympics. The world’s busiest speed demon scored not one, but two remarkable victories Monday. Her gold-medal run in the women’s 5,000 meters came a mere…
“I have NEVER gambled/bet on Hockey…NEVER gambled/bet on any of my games,” the NHL player said in response to his wife’s allegations San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane denied allegations his wife made on social media that he bet on NHL games, including against his own team. Kane responded Sunday morning to allegations made the…
Photos of a maskless Muriel Bowser, her office said, were taken “during the indoor dinner, when she was eating or drinking.” Muriel Bowser, the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., is pushing back against conservative media slamming her for going maskless at a wedding this weekend after her office reinstated an indoor mask mandate in the…
Embattled emcee DaBaby has been under fire since his homophobic rant from Rolling Loud went viral last week. The backlash from DaBaby‘s viral Rolling Loud rant continues. The rapper has officially been dropped from the line-up of the 2021 Governor’s Ball, a popular New York music festival marking its 10th anniversary this year, his second…
Housing advocates fear the end of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium could result in millions of people being evicted Evictions, which have mostly been on pause during the pandemic, were expected to ramp up Monday after the Biden administration allowed the federal moratorium to expire over the weekend and Congress was unable…
