Former Rep. Barbara Lee makes her first public appearance as Oakland’s Mayor-elect, alongside interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins, center, and Councilmember At-Large Rowena Brown at the Arroyo Viejo Recreation Center in Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) Lee, 78, a trailblazer who represented the city in…
A federal appeals court in Louisiana ruled that three organizations representing Black residents can continue with their civil rights lawsuit against St. James Parish that seeks to stop the construction and expansion of polluting petrochemical plants in majority Black neighborhoods. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the plaintiffs sufficiently made the case for…
Source: Handout / Getty Attorneys for white supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof are still working at overturning the killer’s death sentence, which, of course, is more of a chance than Roof gave the nine Black people he shot and killed at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015. Since the day…
Maia Campbell as “Cinny Hawkins” in “Trippin’” (Screenshot via YouTube) OPINION: After recently popping back up on Instagram letting the community know she’s doing great, we’re reflecting on some of Maia Campbell’s most iconic roles. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on…
Ivanka Trump’s got the internet talking after recent swimsuit photos were taken of her surfing. Paparazzi captured a few flicks of the 43-year-old catching some waves but she might have made some fans catch feelings. Trump, President Donald Trump’s older daughter he fathered with her mother Ivana Trump, was spending some time vacationing in Costa…
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images) “Black Americans’ fight for true reparations will not be co-opted and misappropriated for racist anti-immigrant fear-mongering operations,” said Dreisen Heath, a reparations researcher. White House aide Stephen Miller argued that Americans who have been harmed by undocumented immigrants and immigration policies enacted by the…
An American Airlines flight attendant says he lost his job after a combative passenger on a New Year’s Eve 2023 flight from Charlotte to Las Vegas attacked him, setting off a scuffle that ended with the crew member turning physical and being fired. Tillman Robinson, a 25-year veteran flight attendant based in Charlotte, says he…
Tina Knowles attends the 2025 Billboard Women in Music at YouTube Theater on March 29, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Tina Knowles opens up about her breast cancer diagnosis and her daughters’ support through the lumpectomy that made her cancer-free. Tina Knowles surprised the Beyhive in a recent interview when she…
Source: Anadolu / Getty Ryan Coogler’s supernatural horror film Sinners is making waves at the box office. Released on April 18, the eerie thriller—starring Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, and a strong ensemble cast—debuted at No. 1, surpassing industry expectations. According to CNN, Sinners raked in $45.6 million domestically, outpacing projections of $35 million and…
Another couple is causing mayhem on the internet. Founder and senior pastor of Kingdom Church in Phoenix, Arizona, Reginald Steele and his wife Kelley Steele are airing out the dirty laundry of their marriage. The two were guests on the April 9 episode of the “Dear Future Wifey” podcast, where they discussed the hardships of…
