Corey Mayes at his New York home on Feb. 10, 2023, after receiving a kidney transplant. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans, who are three times more likely…
Source: Congressional Quarterly / Getty To hear Republicans tell it, the GOP is experiencing an era of unprecedented discrimination not seen since in America some guy named Jim Crow kept telling Black people which establishments they couldn’t enter through the front door. Republicans, right-wing media personalities and other assorted MAGA minions have likened the prosecutions…
A Black woman is working to file charges against a white driver who she caught on cellphone video hurling racial slurs, insults, and threats at her on a coastal Mississippi highway. Neco Eley was driving on U.S. 90 in Biloxi when she spotted a silver Mercedez-Benz swerving in and out of lanes behind her and…
Kenya Moore can finally put the drama of her bad romance with restaurateur Marc Daly behind her. After a drawn-out battle, a Georgia judge signed off on the former couple’s divorce in December 2023, and now a settlement regarding child support and custodial rights has been finalized. Moore quietly eloped with the businessman in 2017….
Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is demanding that CNN grant Black media access to cover Thursday’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump amid reports that the media company is refusing such credentials to those news outlets. Speaking on behalf of the CBC, CBCPAC Chairman and New York Rep….
Source: petrovv / Getty President Biden made a pivotal move on June 25, announcing that he would grant amnesty to LGBTQ veterans who were discharged from the military after being convicted under the obsolete Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 125 for engaging in consensual intercourse. For people of color, the harm has always been…
After formally being introduced as the 29th head coach in Los Angeles Lakers franchise history, rumors that JJ Redick has used racial slurs in the past have begun to arise. The former NBA star sparked countless debates when reports surfaced that he agreed to a head coaching contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. While his…
Michael Rapaport speaks during ‘March For Israel’ at the National Mall on November 14, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Noam Galai / Getty There is irony in a white actor who used Black culture to become famous accusing a Black politician of “race hustling,” but that’s where we are in 2024, particularly when it…
Reporters from abroad, whose reader demographics are less likely to vote in the upcoming election, were informed and granted media credentials to this week’s presidential debate hosted by CNN, but Black media were not. According to a source close to the credentialing process, about 600 national and international outlets received media credentials for the June…
Jerrell McGirt had been working for Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant for less than a year when he began complaining to management about a hostile work environment where Black, Hispanic and female employees were being mistreated by the company’s training staff. But the Georgia Black man ended up getting fired a month later in an…
