Source: UCG / Getty 62 years ago today, a group of white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept. 15, 1963. Four Black girls were killed in that bombing, and their names, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Carole Robertson, have been immortalized in Black history as victims…
The Target logo is displayed at a Target store on August 20, 2025 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Target’s foot traffic continues to dwindle with the big box giant experiencing one its worst weeks during back-to-school season. After one of the biggest annual retail seasons, back-to-school shopping, Target’s foot traffic still has…
Eric Trump is getting serious side-eye on social media for a questionable story he shared of what an elderly Jamaican man told him about Charlie Kirk just before he arrived at the Fox News studios for an interview. The fatal shooting of Kirk on Sept. 10 has stunned the nation, and many in Donald Trump’s…
Getty Images Pharrell Williams gives heartfelt, urgent remarks during the historic “Grace for the World” concert at St. Peter’s Square. It might sound like the setup to an unlikely joke, but Clipse, Pharrell Williams, and John Legend just made history on the steps of the Vatican. On Saturday, September 13, 2025, the Virginia rap duo…
Not even a memorial can soften the heart of Paula Deen, who still has sharp words about her culinary foe Anthony Bourdain. The disgraced Food Network star, 78, is making headlines discussing the controversies that rocked her career in her new documentary, “Canceled: The Paula Deen Story.” In a portion of the footage that premiered…
Source: Pool / Getty Monday marks the 62nd anniversary of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an event that would become one of several turning points in the Civil Rights Movement, exposing the violent backlash to thriving Black communities. As we pause to remember the four little girls killed in the bombing,…
Source: There is no doubt that it would have been a lot more convenient for MAGA conservatives if the man who shot and killed Charlie Kirk were a Muslim or a trans person, or an undocumented migrant, or just any old immigrant, or a Black gang banger, or just any old Black man. But 22-year-old…
Karen Attiah attends the TIME Person Of The Year Celebration at Capitale on December 12, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Time) “I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job,” former Washington Post writer Karen Attiah claims. After 11 years, Karen Attiah,…
Sports personality and podcaster Kayla Nicole is going viral for getting a public and steamy performance from R&B artist Chris Brown. Nicole attended his Breezy Bowl XX Tour stop in Los Angeles on Sept. 14, where several cameras captured close-up shots of the intimate yet racy embrace between Brown and Travis Kelce‘s ex-girlfriend on a…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is facing a mixed bag of reactions to a comment she made at a largely Black church in Buffalo that some contend was “deeply offensive,” but Hochul defended it as a “lighthearted joke.” Hochul delivered remarks on Sunday, Sept. 7, at True Bethel Baptist Church, in which she reminded the…
