(Left to right) Jemar Tisby, Michael Harriot and Satoria Ray attend the 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 07, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images for ESSENCE) The 2024 Essence Fest Authors Stage and bookstore showcased the talent of Black writers…
Source: tupungato / Getty Tucked away on the outskirts of Pennsylvania is a small city filled with a long legacy of Black art excellence. Most Americans know Pittsburgh for its history of steel making, but it’s the city’s Black art culture that doesn’t get enough spotlight. From self-taught photographer Charles, “Teenie” Harris, to American playwright…
Before asking the flight attendant for a cocktail or glass of wine on your next flight, read this. (Photo: Adobe Stock) Before asking for a cocktail or glass of wine on your next flight, understand what combining alcohol and altitudes might do to your body. If you’re taking to the friendly skies this vacation season,…
A road rage incident filmed on the Fourth of July shows an inebriated woman throwing an angry fit on the side of a highway, but the drunken tirade backfired when she exited her vehicle to confront the other driver but forgot to put her car in park. The viral video begins by showing an unidentified…
There is no corner of the Earth that Sean “Diddy” Combs and his crew can travel to without watchful internet sleuths finding out. The exact whereabouts of New York’s once-reigning hip-hop mogul are unknown for the time being. But his private jet, on the other hand, has been traced across the Atlantic Ocean. Publicly available…
Source: NurPhoto / Getty There’s a new Karen video floating around the interwebs featuring a Costco Karen duo, a Black man who was sick of their white nonsense, and a camera person who was there to have the Black man’s back. The video begins with two white women holding a shopping cart and following ridiculously…
Halle Berry attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Moonfall” at TCL Chinese Theatre on Jan. 31, 2022, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) “All’s Fair” will be Berry’s first TV series role since 2015. Ryan Murphy has tapped Halle Berry to star alongside Kim Kardashian and Glenn Close in an upcoming legal drama. …
(Adobe Stock Images) OPINION: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called gun violence a public health crisis for the first time, a declaration that’s long overdue. As surgeons, we’ve seen the deadly consequences of gun violence on the nation’s children. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own….
Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has apologized to the embassies of Canada, Gabon, and Burkina Faso after three Black teenagers, who turned out to be the children of foreign diplomats, were held at gunpoint and searched by federal police officers even though they had done nothing wrong. The racial profiling incident came to light when…
Source: Kamala Harris/Facebook / Kamala Harris/Facebook If one believes, as I do, with the notion of the past as prologue, it will come as no surprise that in a major crisis moment for the Democratic Party, all eyes are on Kamala Harris. The Party is looking to the first woman and first Black person to…
