The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who has been arguing in court for 20 years that the mostly white jury that convicted him of capital murder and sentenced him to death was unjustly composed with racial bias. In 2004, Terry Pitchford, then 18, robbed a…
EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY – MAY 09: Abdul Carter #51 of the New York Giants speaks with the media after rookie minicamp at NY Giants Quest Diagnostics Training Center on May 09, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images) The second-year player sent shockwaves through the NFL when he tweeted his…
Mayhem erupted after the lineup for the President Donald Trump-backed Freedom 250 concert series dropped earlier this week. Multiple performers are already fleeing from being associated with the polarizing politician. Most of the performers on The Great American State Fair bill have already pulled out. Yet one Black artist seems to be committed to showing…
Source: ianmcdonnell / Getty In totally unsurprising news, the Louisiana state legislature has passed a new congressional map eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. According to AP, the new map redraws Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields’s district into several predominantly white communities in Louisiana, potentially giving Republicans another House seat in the state. State…
During a House Education & Workforce Committee hearing on May 14, Rep. Ilhan Omar went toe to toe with Education Secretary Linda McMahon over a new rule capping federal loans for graduate students in fields like nursing, teaching, and social work and didn’t let her off the hook. The Minnesota Democrat opened by laying out…
Source: UCG / Getty A lot of people, white liberals mostly, seem to be of the opinion that America is the way it is right now because President Donald Trump is president. I’m pretty sure Trump is president because America is the way it is. The racism, xenophobia, sexism, general bigotry and rampant anti-intellectualism aren’t…
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – FEBRUARY 29: General view of 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) The September premiere date will arrive almost 40 years to the day of the classic original series, which…
A Dallas woman said a restaurant discriminated against her and her friends after telling them they weren’t allowed to take pictures. Now the restaurant is trying to clap back online. Blessida Yeboah posted the video last week of her and her friends at Casa Brasa in Dallas. A restaurant is responding after a viral video…
Source: Justin Ford / Getty While the wide-scale operations conducted by ICE and Border Patrol have largely wound down due to the nationwide backlash over the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers, that is not the case in Memphis. ICE continues to have a pronounced presence in the city as…
President Donald Trump tried to deliver a solemn, respectful speech on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, but if he wasn’t going off script to joke about dead soldiers named “Donald,” he was butchering easy words that caused observers to wonder if he was just unprepared or if his loved ones might be neglecting their…
