Anaysheon Coffey, a South Carolina Black woman, was awarded a $120,000 settlement last month because a white cop with a history of racial profiling barged into her home without a warrant and arrested her on fabricated charges in August 2020. And the cop who arrested her, Lancaster police officer Peter Beck, was forced to resign…
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he signs a series of executive Orders in the Oval Office at the White House on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “Trump keeps talking about cracking down on crime, yet the biggest crime is happening right in the…
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty In today’s episode of Completely Shocking News Absolutely No One Except EVERYONE Could Have Predicted, a biographer who says he spent “more than two years deeply involved” in the campaign of President Donald Trump also claims Trump has a problem with Black women, whom the president and his loyalists commonly…
Chief Executive Officer, ESSENCE Caroline A. Wanga speaks onstage during the 2022 15th Annual ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Awards Luncheonat Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on March 24, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for ESSENCE) Wanga steps down a little over a month after responding to the…
Actor Morris Chestnut can do no wrong. The “Reasonable Doubt” star left fans awestruck with a recent Instagram post showing he has changed his signature look. The video, captioned “Decided to hop on this trend. Beard or no beard?” began with a clip of the actor at the 2025 Golden Globes, wearing an impeccably tailored…
Actress Jameela Jamil weighs in on Serena Williams’ weight loss drug endorsement. “Celebrities have access to doctors that most others don’t,” says Jameela Jamil, who flagged the risks of GLP-1s like those Serena Williams endorsed. Jameela Jamil is the latest celebrity to weigh in on Serena Williams’ personal health choices, though she insists her concern…
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has had enough of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Olbermann pulled no punches on Wednesday’s episode of his podcast “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” calling her “aggressively stupid” and mocking her for her repeated mispronunciations. “We may have achieved perfection!” Olbermann said sarcastically, adding that the word “lie” can be spelled…
Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man at the center of a long-running immigration battle who was released from federal custody Friday while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges, was taken into custody by ICE Monday morning, and may soon be facing another deportation, only this time to Uganda. On Friday,…
Source: Kevin Carter / Getty Howard University students say they are shocked and frustrated after the sudden resignation of President Ben Vinson III, who stepped down less than three years into his tenure–one of the shortest in the school’s history. With no clear reason offered by the administration, students and faculty are left to speculate,…
When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos faced one of life’s most difficult moments last Friday, his new wife Lauren Sánchez stood by his side as they arrived at his mother’s homegoing service in West Miami. The couple, who married just two months prior in a lavish Italian ceremony, presented a united front during this deeply personal…
