Lucien Laviscount, Chloe Bailey, Malcom D. Lee, Lynn Whitfield, Coco Jones, Nicole Friday and Jeff Friday attend the 2026 American Black Film Festival – “Strung” Opening Night Screening at New World Center on May 27, 2026 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Alekandra London/Getty Images) With star-studded screenings, panels, and rooftop celebrations, ABFF continues its…
A row of graves in a quiet farming community in northern Vietnam sits in the shadow of redevelopment. White Xs painted on some headstones tell the story of an upheaval already in progress, marking tombs that have been removed before bulldozers roll in to make way for a sprawling luxury golf resort. President Donald Trump…
Source: North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation / NCSBI In a just world, any police officer caught red-handed engaging in egregious acts of police brutality would not only be fired from the police force but charged with a crime as well. Unfortunately, far more often than not, police departments take the position that unnecessarily violent…
Source: Calvin Duncan / other Louisiana simply doesn’t like Black people. That’s the only conclusion I can come to after how they’ve been moving the last several months. It’s bad enough that a group of Louisiana voters successfully convinced the Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights Act and pave the way for a new…
A Michigan cop ordered a Black man to stop walking on a public sidewalk in Grosse Pointe and then called him an idiot when the man revealed that he knew his rights, video shows. Viewers are applauding Price Lomonte’s courage in refusing to be intimidated “into submission,” as one put it, and his instinct to…
Source: Anadolu / Getty A three-year-old clip of Ohio gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy has resurfaced and reminded us exactly how an Indian man of Hindu faith managed to become a political darling to a party that thrives on white Christian nationalism: by engaging in anti-Black racism. In the clip from his 2023 appearance on some right-winger’s…
Diddy has been fighting consistently to be let out of prison early, but a set of new criminal charges against the Bad Boy music mogul could crush his hopes and add additional time. According to TMZ, Sean “Diddy” Combs is at the center of new sexual assault allegations dating back six years. Per the outlet,…
Source: Ezra Acayan / Getty Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been trying his best to make the title “Secretary of War” catch on, but perhaps he’d have better luck calling himself the Secretary of Military Racism and Misogyny, as that descriptor would better apply to what he is and all he has done since becoming…
President Donald Trump has caused all kinds of mayhem after sending out flyers with the expected Freedom 250 performers who now seemingly have backed out. Young MC, The Commodores, Morris Day & The Time, and several other Black artists have pulled out of or declined invitations to the upcoming Trump celebration from June 25 to…
Source: sturti / Getty The Trump administration really seems to be against folks trying to make something of their lives. Despite spending so much time promoting trade schools, the Department of Education has announced regulations that would deny federal student loans to theology, cosmology, and performing arts majors due to low wages. According to the…
