B-Girl Raygun of Team Australia reacts during the B-Girls Round Robin – Group B on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France. | Source: Elsa / Getty The unlikeliest of Olympic breakdancers whose performance sparked ongoing cultural criticism and suspicions of unethical…
Two Las Vegas police officers who kneeled and sat on a mentally ill man who had called 911 for help will have to face excessive force claims for killing him, a federal appeals panel ruled last week. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department had contended that qualified immunity should shield the officers and the department from…
Ernie Hudson as L.C. Duncan in “Carl Weber’s The Family Business. (Courtesy of BET+) OPINION: If you want to watch an amusing show about a family that screams talented tenth meets the trap, “Carl Weber’s The Family Business” is it. I didn’t know how much I needed to watch Ernie Hudson play a drug dealer…
Tamala Payne (center) and attorney Sean Walton (left) participate in a December 2020 protest march in Columbus, Ohio, for Payne’s son, Casey Goodson Jr., who was shot and killed by Franklin County deputy sheriff Jason Meade. (Photo: Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, file) Franklin County deputy sheriff Jason Meade was charged with murder and…
Sculptures representing charred chimneys rising from the smoldering rubble of burned-out buildings make up the Centennial memorial of the 1908 Race Riot entitled, “Acts of Intolerance” by Preston Jackson, shown in March 2023 in Springfield, Illinois. (Photo: John O’Connor/AP, file) The ceremony will be held Friday in the Oval Office and feature civil rights activists…
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award onstage during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on April 1 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Queen Bey has been nominated for the People’s Artist of 2023, the Female Artist of 2023 and the Social Country Star of 2023. Beyoncé, Shaboozey and Kane Brown are…
A protester holds a poster of Ajike Owens and demands the arrest of a woman who killed her during a rally at the Marion County Courthouse in June 2023 in Ocala, Florida. (Photo: John Raoux/AP, file) The mother of the woman who was fatally shot told reporters that Susan Lorincz was not in fear for…
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory. | Source: BSIP / Getty Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public…
Brave + Kind Bookshop owner Bunnie Hilliard A Black-owned bookstore in metro Atlanta is intentional about promoting diversity in literature for kids and young adults. While some school systems are banning books and doing away with AP African-American History courses, Brave + Kind Bookshop owner Bunnie Hilliard is making sure Black children and young adults…
Tinashe poses for a portrait in New York on June 6 to promote her seventh studio album, “Quantum Baby.” (Photo: Gary Gerard Hamilton/AP) Tinashe’s eight-track project, clocking in just over a swift 22 minutes, features production from Nosaj Thing, Ricky Reed and sdtroy. NEW YORK (AP) — Tinashe refuses to retreat from the unknowns of…
