ATLANTA, GEORGIA – SEPTEMBER 24: Wale performs on stage during AIDS Walk Atlanta 2022 at Piedmont Park on September 24, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Derek White/Getty Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation) OPINION: The D.C. rapper’s new album leans into honesty, pressure, healing and the struggles success can’t erase — offering rare reflection in…
Singer Brian McKnight has ignited yet another wave of backlash after appearing on a podcast and reopening old wounds tied to his first family. Fans online found his remarks cruel and ill-timed, coming just months after the death of his estranged son, Niko. What he framed as an explanation quickly read as a bashing session…
Source: baona / Getty The imagery of white bodies hanging from trees definitely fits the description of “strange fruit.” Billie Holiday’s legendary protest song from 1939 was an ode to the thousands of Black Americans who suffered the horrific fate of lynching, which remains one of America’s greatest sins. On Thursday, we learned that the…
INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 29: Tina Knowles attends the 2025 Billboard Women in Music at YouTube Theater on March 29, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) In “High Horse: The Black Cowboy,” Tina Knowles opens up about being pushed aside for a white couple on the red carpet. The Kentucky Derby —…
A rattled White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to defend her boss, President Donald Trump, at Thursday’s press briefing during intense questioning about Trump’s calls to execute six Democratic lawmakers over a video message urging U.S. troops to protect the Constitution and refuse illegal military orders, but ended up fleeing the briefing in indignation instead. It…
Source: Krestofell / Getty Two grown adult white men thought they were going to create their own private Whiteganistan in which they would sail to some foreign country, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children. Using the spiritual guidance of all of the colonizing European white men before them, Gavin Rivers Weisenburg,…
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MAY 06: (L-R) Wendy Osefo and Eddie Osefo attend Netflix’s “Forever” Los Angeles Special Screening and After Party at TUDUM Theater on May 06, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kayla Oaddams/Getty Images for Netflix) In an ongoing investigation, Real Housewives of Potomac star Wendy Osefo and her husband, Eddie, are accused…
The one thing more reliable than his ginger-colored comb-over is Donald Trump’s knack for turning a press conference into a one-man demolition derby. For years, the president has treated the White House press corps like contestants on one of his hostile reality shows when they bring up questions he simply doesn’t want to answer. His…
A staff member at a Philadelphia charter school was fired for hitting a seventh grader so hard that he knocked one of the boy’s teeth out. Montrena Bennett said that the confrontation last month happened between a KIPP Philadelphia Preparatory Academy staff member and her 12-year-old son, Peyton Outlaw. Peyton Outlaw says he lost his…
✕ In light of Trans Day of Remembrance (Nov. 20), Dominique Morgan sat down with author, activist, and restorative retreat practitioner Peachie Wimbush-Polk to discuss motherhood, what it’s like to parent a Black trans child, finding joy within grief, and honoring the life and legacy of her daughter, Lala. Lala is Ms. Peachie’s daughter, who…
