This year’s commemoration comes as some states seek to roll back ballot access, while advocates desire to restore a key part of the Voting Rights Act The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans is honoring four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in…
School officials and local police are investigating after a Black woman claimed that her 13-year-old son was subjected to severe bullying and abuse at the hands of his peers at a Texas middle school, culminating last month with the boy being forced to drink urine at a sleepover party. Summer Smith wrote in a lengthy…
‘Threatening to call the cops on a Black man in this country is you declaring your willingness to see him killed,’ Selwyn Seyfu Hinds tweeted Screenwriter and former editor-in-chief of The Source, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, has called out Citibank on Twitter after being racially profiled at one of their local branches in Los Angeles. The…
The former music manager has slammed comparisons between the singer and his famous daughter Actress and singer Halle Bailey has come to her sister’s defense after Chloe Bailey was dragged by Mathew Knowles, the father and former manager of Beyonce. “How amazing is it that @ChloeBailey is already an icon,” Halle wrote on Friday. how…
The Rochester Police Department is under fire again for repeating excessive force practices, pepper-spraying a Black mother while her three-year-old daughter stood by. According to The Appeal police were called to a local drug store on Feb. 22 where the woman was accused of stealing. Cops approached the woman while she walked down the street…
The 76ers stars are suspected to have been exposed to COVID-19 by a barber Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons have been ruled out of Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Atlanta because of a coronavirus contact tracing issue, the league announced about eight hours before tipoff. Embiid and Simmons are in Atlanta, though it was…
Though he’s hinted at it before, the chance of comic legend Eddie Murphy coming back to stand-up seems more possible than before. Murphy implied that he previously had plans to execute a massive one-man show during an appearance on Kevin Hart’s SiriusXM podcast ‘Comedy Gold Minds” while promoting the film “Coming 2 America.” (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage/Getty…
Zonnique Pullins gave fans a view of her daughter Hunter Zoelle James‘s safari-themed room on March 4 while sharing an Instagram Story thanking her mom Tameka “Tiny” Harris for helping get the infant’s nursery together. In the clip, Pullins panned to each section of the room as she showcased the emerald-and-white color-coordinated space — with Hunter’s name…
Miami rapper deletes Twitter account for the second time in less than four months after receiving backlash for behavior on the app JT of the hip-hop duo City Girls has come under fire for blocking a Twitter account, said to be that of a fan with cancer, reaching out to speak to her. The bombardment…
As drugstores and doctors’ offices take on vaccination efforts, residents of ‘pharmacy desert’ communities face a big hurdle to get shots When Charlome Pierce searched where her 96-year-old father could get a COVID-19 vaccine in January, she found zero options anywhere near their home in Virginia. The lone medical clinic in Surry County had none,…
