ATLANTA, GA – MARCH 05: The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin performs at The Fox Theatre on March 5, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for The Fox Theatre) Over the years, Black singers have used their voices to tell powerful stories, break racial barriers and transform lives. June may have been…
Dana Perino and Harold Ford Jr. attend Fox News’ Super Tuesday 2024 primary election coverage at Fox News Channel Studios on March 5, 2024, in New York City. | Source: Roy Rochlin / Getty When Fox News fired Tucker Carlson and replaced him with Jesse Waters, all the network really did was replace one racist…
Roy Wood, Jr. attends the 2024 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony on April 14, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America East) “Kudos to CNN and the immigrants at Hat Trick Productions for bringing a Black job to the States,” Wood says about the new gig….
Tamron Hall attends Variety’s 2024 Power of Women: New York event on May 2, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Weeks before her first cookbook is due out in stores, talk show host Tamron Hall ended up with an unexpected surplus of onions, thanks to her son, Moses. This week, Tamron…
Vice President Kamala Harris greets members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority after speaking at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on July 10, 2024 in Dallas, Texas. The Vice President spoke to approximately 20,000 members from her sorority in a continued effort to rally support ahead of the upcoming November Presidential election. (Photo by…
Grief-stricken mother Dahlia Mack lashed out at the woman who lured her teenage son to his death in a Houston court on Aug. 6. “I hate you. Look at me! You disgust me. You should have been flushed rather than birthed,” Dahlia told her son’s killer, Keona Samireal Mouton, in a victim impact statement in…
Lauryn Hill performs on the Pyramid Stage on day three of Glastonbury Festival on June 28, 2019, at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) OPINION: After Hill and the Fugees canceled their tour three days before it was to begin, Hill blamed “media sensationalism and clickbait headlines” instead of her…
Sha’Carri Richardson is leaving Paris with two medals after making her Olympic debut in the 2024 Games. The former LSU track and field star nabbed a silver when she took the second place spot in the 100-meter final on Aug. 3. Days later, on Aug. 9, she helped Team USA, which includes Melissa Jefferson, Gabby…
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch / Getty In recognition of the 10th anniversary of both the brutal public execution of 18-year-old Michael Brown, Jr., by former Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, on August 9th, 2014, and the uprising that called a movement together that followed, Tory Russell, a lead organizer of the Ferguson Rebellion, political campaign…
Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison attend A Different World HBCU College Tour 2024 at Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College on February 29, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Nykieria Chaney/Getty Images) OPINION: I’ve always wondered what happened to the crew from Hillman College; maybe now we’ll get some answers. Editor’s note:…
