Residents walk through Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and more Caribbean countries weather the strong winds and heavy rainfall of Hurricane Melissa. Hurricane Melissa is actively ripping its way through the Caribbean. The storm’s 185 mph winds and heavy rainfall are…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 05: Keith Powers attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) “The Perfect Match” actor revealed in 2020 that he would cope with anxiety by drinking and needed a…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling it like he sees it. Newsom, President Donald Trump’s archnemesis in recent months, has been getting under the president’s thin skin, calling him out and trolling him on social media. After the President slapped a 10 percent tariff on Canadian goods over a negative TV ad featuring parts of…
Source: Tom Williams / Getty The speed at which the Department of Justice (DOJ) has become deeply unserious would be impressive if it weren’t deeply unsettling. Any pretense that the DOJ operates independently of the executive branch has been completely eradicated as the department has spent much of this year prosecuting President Donald Trump’s political…
(Photos: Black and Missing Foundation.) On what would have been Relisha Rudd’s 20th birthday, “The Vanishing of Relisha Rudd: A Cold Case Reexamined” docuseries reignites a call for justice. On what should have been her 20th birthday, the world is once again saying Relisha Rudd’s name. Eleven years after her disappearance, “The Vanishing of Relisha…
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, and in the case of Japan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi standing beside Donald Trump, those words are most likely “yikes” and “someone help her.” The photo op has set social media ablaze, with observers dissecting every pixel of Takaichi posing next to Trump in…
Source: Sangamon County Jail / Sangamon County Jail Last week, the trial began for former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson, who shot and killed 36-year-old Sonya Massey on July 6, 2024, at her home in Springfield, Illinois. On Wednesday, a jury found Grayson guilty of second-degree murder. While the ex-officer hasn’t been sentenced yet,…
(Photo: Getty Images) The cost of health care under Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, is at the center of the current government shutdown. Americans who buy private health insurance through the Obamacare marketplace are officially receiving notices about how much their premiums will increase next year. The Trump administration previewed the new plans sold…
An Amazon Prime logo appears on the side of a delivery van as it departs an Amazon Warehouse location in Dedham, Mass., Oct. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Amazon announced plans to lay off 14,000 employees and counting in a public blog post on Tuesday, October 28. As if there weren’t enough people out…
A white Ohio man, who was apparently upset over being called “a white boy,” dropped his pants and “mooned” a Black driver, while yelling a racial slur, all in broad daylight on a major thoroughfare. The video, first posted to Instagram on October 27, has been racking up views on social media, though it’s unclear…
