More proof has surfaced that a girl who was seen on a viral video slamming another teenager’s head into a pavement near a Missouri school was acting in self-defense. According to a juvenile officer who testified in the St. Louis Family Court on Friday, Maurnice DeClue was responding to being punched first by Kaylee Gain,…

Source: RICHARD PIERRIN / Getty In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind the images of balmy beaches and lush hotel grounds lies a crisis, the likes of which its residents have never experienced. Caribbean islands are in a water crisis, and their governments have warned that…

Comedian Gary Owen is not telling the full story of why he no longer has a relationship with his adult children, according to his ex-wife, Kenya Duke. The “Think Like a Man” actor recently shared his account on how he believes his messy divorce was a huge contributor to his estrangement from the former couple’s…

Children are shown at Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, on January 12, 2021. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty Child care workers earn an average of $13.22 an hour. Early childhood education and care, so from birth through kindergarten, is so underfunded that many families…

Pushing for what many are calling a reverse-racist narrative, GOP front-runner and former President Donald Trump has vowed to push for policies to address an “anti-white” feeling in the country, a belief echoed by many Trump supporters who feel racism against white people is more of a problem than anti-Black racism. According to Time Magazine,…

If you lost a parent and your other parent remarried, is it wrong to not remove photos of your deceased parent from social media? A Reddit user wants to know if they are in the wrong for not taking down pictures of their deceased mother on Instagram simply because his stepmother doesn’t like to see…

Source: Hulu A new documentary series on Hulu highlights the impact of Black Twitter on popular culture through the eyes of some of its most notable users. On Thursday, the highly anticipated documentary series Black Twitter: A People’s History premiered on Hulu. The series is an in-depth look at the community of Black users and…

Source: Drew Angerer / Getty On Saturday, a special graduation ceremony was conducted for Howard University’s College of Nursing and Allied Health Services class of 2024 after the class’ original commencement Thursday was reportedly shut down by the fire department due to the venue exceeding its capacity. According to WUSA9, a three-hour ceremony was held…

A Black mother in the Dallas area who was mistakenly targeted during a no-knock raid at the wrong house five years ago has filed a second appeal after her civil lawsuit was thrown out by the Fifth Circuit in April.  The blundered siege on Karen Jimerson’s home in Waxahachie, Texas, on March 27, 2019, led…