Two Black teens raising money for their church were subjected to a profanity-laced meltdown by a white man who called them “stupid f-cking monkeys” and hurled the N-word. The trigger? The teens told him, “God bless you.” A video of the jarring incident appeared on TikTok on Sept. 10, and commenters are convinced the man…
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty At least two HBCUs in Virginia, two more in Atlanta, Ga., and one in Alabama are reportedly under threat of terrorism, causing campuses to be temporarily shut down and students to be issued shelter-in-place orders. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, as of Thursday, Virginia State University and Hampton University have…
FILE – Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook listens during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) The White House wants the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board removed before next week’s interest rate decision. The…
Actress Julia Roberts reportedly has quietly stepped forward to offer support to her longtime friend Bruce Willis and his family as the Hollywood icon continues his battle with frontotemporal dementia. This news arrives just days after Willis’s devoted wife, Emma Heming, revealed that the “Die Hard” star was moved into a separate home away from…
Conservative leaders and right-wing media figures are facing condemnation after turning the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk into a rallying cry against Democrats, echoing President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that “the radical left” was responsible. Kirk, 31, founder of Turning Point USA and a close Trump ally, was shot in the neck by a sniper’s…
Source: Thai Noipho / Getty In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, and the MAGA world’s (fake) confusion about why so many people are far from sad about it, we really need to have a discussion about the dismissal of blatant bigotry and racist hate speech as a simple difference in opinion. But I won’t…
(Photo credit: DCPS) On Thursday, September 11, 2001, three students and three teachers from Washington, D.C. were among the nearly 3,000 who died that day. It’s been 24 years since two planes struck the Twin Towers in New York City, another hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a fourth crashed before it could reach…
Veteran actress and “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg shows no signs of slowing down. Since her Hollywood debut in 1985’s “The Color Purple,” Goldberg has built a career in film and television that fans can’t stop following—and after her recent interview explaining why retirement isn’t on the table, attention has shifted more to her love…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is trying desperately to help President Donald Trump make the Epstein scandal go away, but the timing of her latest string of denials has many on social media questioning how far they’re willing to go to protect the president. Leavitt’s been facing an uphill battle as more information about…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 05: Rev Al Sharpton speaks during 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 05, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE)Al Sharpton Clark Atlanta University, Alabama State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University, and other HBCUs…
