“My mom is over the moon and has taken to calling me Dr. DuVernay,” the famed director tweeted. As if she didn’t have enough wins and accomplishments under her belt, this week Ava Duvernay confirmed that she would be the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree from the prestigious Yale University. “My thanks to the special…
Following the release of additional body cam footage showing the last moments of Matthew Zadok Williams, a 35-year-old Georgia man who was fatally shot by police on April 12, his family is again refuting claims that officers acted lawfully in the moments leading up to and following his death. “We’re living in a nightmare,” said…
R&B songstress SZA aired out her frustrations on social media this week after revealing to fans that a publication she was set to collaborate with refused to let her use a Black photographer for an upcoming magazine shoot. In a Twitter post that has since garnered over 82,000 likes since its posting on Tuesday, May 25, the…
Santa Clara County sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Russell Davis said that he could not specify the number of dead and wounded or describe how the suspect died Gunfire erupted Wednesday at a railyard in San Jose, and a sheriff’s spokesman said multiple people were killed and wounded and that the suspect was dead. Santa Clara County…
The decision from the archdiocese comes more than four months after three accusers came forward, with one saying he was 18 when Pfleger sexually abused him Nationally known activist Chicago priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger will be reinstated as the leader of his parish after an investigation found “insufficient reason to suspect” he sexually abused…
“My daddy changed the world!” Gianna Floyd famously said. The 7-year-old daughter of George Floyd is melting hearts around the world after an iconic photo went viral showing the moment a Marine guard held the door as she entered the West Wing of the White House. Gianna Floyd and her family visited with President Joe…
A family of four is facing murder charges after they killed a neighbor in what authorities are calling a “tragic case of mistaken identity,” ABC13 in Texas reported. Nineteen-year-old Joe Argueta, along with his mother and father, 39-year-old Florinda Argueta and 45-year-old Luis Argueta, plus his uncle, 29-year-old Margarito Alcantar, were all charged with the…
EXCLUSIVE: Deputy White House Press Secretary will be only the second Black woman to lead the press briefing room, following in the footsteps of Judy Smith in 1991 Deputy White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday will command the White House podium and room filled with White House reporters eager to pepper her with…
The study also found that the average person of color is exposed to a higher heat island intensity than the average person living below poverty In nearly every major city in the U.S., people of color are exposed to more extreme urban heat than white people, a new study found. Using government temperature and census…
“I wouldn’t have been disturbed had I thought it was professional, had I thought those officers had performed as they should — they did not,” Gov. John Bel Edwards says Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday denounced the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene as “regrettable,” criticizing the state troopers who repeatedly stunned, choked…
