A video shared on social media appears to show a Black woman standing up for a student who she believed was scolded by a teacher.  The video, posted on TikTok by @officiallypkj, shows a woman named Payton Jackson entering the hallway at a school located in the Dallas Independent School District. In the comments, she confirmed that…

Source: Art Wager / Getty School leaders at Tennessee State University are hosting a national press conference to address the recent extremist Republican legislatures across the country that are attacking and defunding historically black colleges and universities.  The press conference, which will take place this Monday, April 1, at 11 am CST, will include national…

Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty This week, Halle Berry recalled an intimate story that several Black women know of far too well – medical misdiagnosis. Speaking to an invite-only room of entertainment writers, showrunners, and insiders, the Oscar winner shared that a medical doctor told her she had “the worst case of herpes he’d ever…

A month after NBA All-Star Shaquille O’Neal shared a snapshot featuring himself, Ice Spice, Taylor Swift, and friends at the Super Bowl, the NBA legend has finally spoken on his viral comments about the rising New York rapper. Shaq complimented her in the post, saying the 24-year-old was “so damn fine.” Critics have since labeled…

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate Fanny Hamer speaks out for the meeting of her delegates at a credential meeting before the formal meeting of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 1964, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. | Source: Bettmann / Getty It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou…