Issa Rae attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Savion Washington/Getty Images) Writer, producer, and actress Issa Rae opened up about struggling to feel successful when she doesn’t have a show on air. Issa Rae, if you…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt unraveled fast on Wednesday when reporters pressed her on why President Donald Trump’s top officials cornered a Republican ally over the Epstein files. The moment she tried to spin it, her answers became even more chaotic — and one slip in her rambling response sent the room buzzing. The…
Source: Samuel Corum / Getty When it comes to the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s ties to late billionaire sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and his administration are behaving the way children do when they’ve been caught lying, but they’re way too invested in the lie to do anything but double down more and more…
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s daughter Monroe Cannon seems to have inherited her mother’s shadiness. The 14-year-old daughter recently set the record straight regarding her father’s children with other women. On Wednesday, she took to Instagram and shared a story clarifying that she has only one full sibling, her fraternal twin brother, Moroccan. Nick and…
Source: JLco – Julia Amaral / Getty Look, I’m not gonna lie. I cuss a lot. In fact, my use of profanity has historically bordered on the poetic. I have a preternatural ability to string together bad words to add a flourish to just about any point that I need to make. My ability to…
Donald Trump tried to invoke the Bible when announcing his foster-care executive order. Paraphrasing the scripture, the president, like always, gave the world more political theater, and his latest move had the internet laughing, wincing, and trying to figure out what chapter he could possibly be quoting from. Trump framed the policy like a Sunday…
Ruby Bridges (Photo credit: Getty Images/AP) In the decades since, Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges has built a life as an activist, author, mother, wife, and more. Today marks 65 years since Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to integrate elementary schools in the United States. On Nov. 14, 1960, at just six years…
Source: Bettmann / Getty On Nov. 14, 1965, six-year-old Ruby Bridges made history when she stepped foot in William Frantz Elementary School, becoming the first Black student to integrate into the New Orleans school. To celebrate the anniversary of this landmark moment in Civil Rights, here are five facts about Ruby Bridges. Ruby Bridges Was…
Derrick McNair-White, left, Malachi McNair-Nesbitt, and Elias Washington, right, do a puzzle together in family therapy on June 9, 2025, in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Between unstable housing, trauma, and dwindling support, Sechita McNair fights daily to keep her teenager enrolled — and hopeful. It was the worst summer in years. Sechita McNair’s family…
Audra McDonald attends the 78th Annual Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Event at Sofitel New York on May 08, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions) “Grace was waiting for me long before I knew how to claim it for myself,” Audra McDonald said, recalling her mental…
