Activist Brandon Patterson says he has spoken to other activists about the vaccine and the dangers of COVID-19, but that it’s like ‘working against the grain’ As Black activists continue to pour into the streets to push America to reckon with its systemic racism, they are also facing a reckoning of their own: the COVID-19…
The running total of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is nearly equal to the number of Americans killed in World II The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 400,000 on Tuesday in the waning hours in office for President Donald Trump, whose handling of the crisis has been judged by public…
The FBI is screening approximately 25,000 National Guard service members that are being sent to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration The National Guard Bureau is taking extra precautions on Inauguration Day. As security is being vetted for the ceremony, two members of the Army National Guard were discovered to have ties with far-right extremist groups. Both…
Cole James Bridges of Stow, Ohio, was in custody on charges of attempted material support of a terrorist organization A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York City’s 9/11 Memorial and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said…
The #BillsMafia has donated $400K to a Louisville charity that he once supported It’s time for some good news and Buffalo Bills fans, or the Bills Mafia as they’re better known, has provided it. After Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson suffered a concussion in the team’s 17-3 playoff loss to Buffalo last Saturday, the former…
Her birthday may be over, but Mary J. Blige is not done blessing her fans with pictures from her birthday photo shoot. After hitting fans with three jaw-dropping photos back to back, on Jan. 11 for her birthday, the “Queen of Hip Hop Soul” is back with another banger..In the Jan. 14 Instagram photo, Blige…
A Black American woman accused of bragging in a Twitter thread about living in the Indonesian resort of Bali during the pandemic is facing deportation for that same social media activity, according to reports. Kristen Gray has been identified as the woman whose tweet about moving from her Los Angeles studio to a treehouse in…
Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving reportedly helped out George Floyd‘s 7-year-old daughter Gianna in the form of purchasing a home. Floyd lost his life on Memorial Day after former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin pressed a knee into his neck for more than eight minutes. Former NBA player and childhood friend of Floyd, Stephen Jackson, recently made…
A Black senator from Oregon has proposed that Black Oregonians be paid reparations to redress racial disparities in the state. Sen. Lew Frederick, a Portland Democrat, has sponsored two bills in the new legislative session that provide a path towards making the case for reparations, and setting the framework for how they would be distributed….
Days after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit accusing the NYPD of repeated unlawful practices against demonstrators, more violence reared over the holiday in New York City during a Black Lives Matter demonstration held to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Over 30 protesters were arrested on Monday at City Hall park, during…
