Source: Erika Goldring / Getty Last month, we reported that Louisiana Republicans decided to postpone the state’s congressional primaries amid the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which resulted in the blocking of a Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana just weeks before the election. And in doing so, the Louisiana…
President Donald Trump, 79, did care at first. But now he’s letting the world know exactly how he feels about the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Secret Service rushed to get Trump out of a ballroom at the Washington Hilton on April 26, after what his team is calling a third assassination attempt. Agents were…
DJ Khaled, 50, looks like a brand new man after debuting his dramatic transformation. The music producer born Khaled Mohammed Khaled reached international fame with monster hits such as “I’m on One,” “All I Do Is Win,” and “Wild Thoughts.” DJ Khaled’s physique became part of his larger-than-life signature image back in the late ’90s….
Source: Alex Wong / Getty Here’s the thing: the GOP has a casual racism problem. To be sure, it has an overt racism problem as well — and our current president is the MAGA grand wizard in charge when it comes to fostering it — but the tendency for Republican officials to end up drowning…
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesPhoto by: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Authorities said jump drives containing unreleased songs and sensitive tour materials were taken during a 2025 vehicle break-in in Atlanta. A Georgia man accused of stealing unreleased music and confidential tour materials connected to Beyoncé has pleaded guilty and been sentenced in connection with…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 05: Raheem DeVaughn performs onstage at the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 05, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE)Photo by: Arturo Holmes / Getty Images Two decades after “The Love Experience,” the indy…
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – FEBRUARY 11: Brandon Clarke #15 of the Memphis Grizzlies during the second half of the NBA game at Footprint Center on February 11, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is picking another public fight with Sen. Mark Kelly. But the clash already appears headed toward self-inflicted embarrassment. The same kind that followed Hegseth’s earlier attempt to punish the retired Navy captain for encouraging troops not to follow illegal orders. Days after a federal appeals court questioned his retaliation effort against Sen. Mark Kelly,…
Source: Gado / Getty Free speech in America has never fully belonged to Black Americans. The tools used to silence us have changed in how they appear over time, but the logic underneath them hasn’t. In 1740, the South Carolina Negro Act codified white supremacy and made it a crime to teach an enslaved Black…
Source: diane555 / Getty On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered. NBC News reports that the Supreme Court set aside those previous rulings and sent the case back to the lower courts for relitigation. Alabama has tried for…
