NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 16: Joy-Ann Reid attends the Fast Company Innovation Festival 2025 on September 16, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company) Reid was fired from the network formerly known as MSNBC amid a massive shakeup, despite solid ratings. 365 days after she was let…
In recent years, members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle have been quick to defend his sharpest remarks, boldest policy shifts, and most headline-grabbing moves. That kind of blind allegiance to 47 has typically played out behind podiums, through prepared statements, and with folk sending out late-night tweets to defend whatever he posted on Truth…
Michelle Obama and Donald Trump Photo: Getty Images Trump has a history of taking swipes and making unfair statements about Michelle and Barack Obama. President Donald Trump’s newfound bestie Nicki Minaj must be rubbing off on him because, much like her rivals remain constant online targets and seem to live rent-free in her mind, he…
Source: Win McNamee / Getty As we mark another Black History Month, a moment that should honor the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, we instead confront a painful truth: Donald Trump has spent the first year of his second term in office making life harder for Black families, narrowing the pathways to opportunity that…
(Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University) Inez Phillips and her daughter, Jennifer Durham, became the first parent-child duo to earn doctorates in psychology from Rutgers University. What’s better than getting your degree? Making history while getting your degree … with your mom. Inez Phillips Durham and her daughter, Jennifer Durham, are honoring this accomplishment as Rutgers University spotlights…
A Louisiana news outlet is drawing criticism online for blurring the face of a man who racially profiled and harassed a Black man for fishing in a pond. The victim, Marlon Cox, recorded the confrontation, which happened in December in Gonzales, Louisiana, a suburb outside of Baton Rouge. Stills from a viral video show a…
Sapp, who became a widower in 2010 had been friends with Cole for a decade before their relationship became serious. Congrats are in order to Marvin Sapp! The gospel singer revealed that he is engaged to Dr. La’Boris Cole, using a birthday party as cover for him to drop to one knee and pop the question…
Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Look, at the very least, can we all just admit that the Trump administration is janky? President Donald Trump has essentially turned the executive branch into a ghetto with a golden toilet, filled his Cabinet with DE-white hires who are barely qualified to install actual cabinets, and has White…
As tension escalates between 50 Cent and T.I., virtual onlookers are taking sides. The beef started when the “Million Dollaz Worth Of Game” podcast released their episode on Feb. 22 featuring T.I. During that episode, the Atlanta native addressed what went wrong with the “Verzuz” that he and 50 Cent were supposed to have. He…
A college professor in New York City is under fire for a set of racist remarks she made during a virtual faculty meeting, and now university officials are working to determine whether the comments violated their policies. The remarks were made by Dr. Allyson Friedman, a tenured associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences…
