Williams will sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which has served as the Black National Anthem When Vanessa Williams hosts this year’s televised Capitol Fourth celebration, she will not only honor the nation’s traditional independence day, but also the country’s newly designated holiday — Juneteenth. Williams, who was the first Black woman to be crowned…
The 18-year-old Namibian sprinters have posted four of the top five fastest 400-meter times in the world this year The Olympic dreams of Namibian star sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have been placed on hold due to their “natural high testosterone” levels. The two 18-year-old sprinters have been ruled ineligible to compete in the…
“We are not antigovernment. We are not anti-police, we are not sovereign citizens, we’re not Black identity extremists,” said one of the armed men An hourslong standoff with a group of heavily armed men that partially shut down Interstate 95 ended Saturday with 11 suspects in custody, Massachusetts state police said. The standoff shut down…
Source: Dia Dipasupil / Getty Actress Phylicia Rashad issued a second apology Friday, this time directing her statement to Howard University students, parents and alumni after tweeting an eye-brow-raising response to Bill Cosby‘s overturned conviction. “This week, I tweeted a statement that caused so much hurt in so many people – both broadly and inside…
“We the People” premieres Sunday on Netflix; H.E.R. performs a song that teaches how to get involved with issues In addition to making great music, H.E.R. wants to be an active citizen who empowers young people with information. The Grammy- and Oscar-winning recording artist gets to do both in the new animated Netflix series, We…
Idris Elba’s wife, Sabrina Dhowre, is a true ride or die, and the whole world got a glimpse of that last year when Dhowre revealed she would not quarantine herself from her husband after it was confirmed he contracted coronavirus. Days after the confirmation, Dhowre herself revealed she, too, got the virus. Fast forward to…
The term “blackfishing” refers to non-Black people modifying their appearance to mimic traditionally Black features Australian rapper Iggy Azalea is facing social media backlash for “blackfishing” in her latest music video. The 31-year-old rapper released her latest single “I Am The Stripclub” on Friday, and the accompanying music video contains several scenes featuring Azalea looking…
Andrew Delke will serve a three-year prison sentence under the deal over the killing of 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick in 2018 The mother of a Black man fatally shot by a white former Nashville officer sobbed, screamed and knocked over a courtroom lectern Friday as she begged a judge not to accept a plea deal she…
It’s the third update within two years of guidelines restricting when and where athletes can express opinions ahead of the Tokyo Olympics The IOC finally relented on Friday to let Olympic athletes make gestures of protest in their field of play at the Tokyo Games. A third update within 18 months of Olympic guidelines that try…
A conservative group sought to get State Sen. Louise Lucas kicked out of office after a Confederate monument was damaged during protests last year A judge in Virginia swiftly rebuked a conservative group’s effort Friday to remove a Black state senator from office over her role in a protest that ended with heavy damage to…
