Source: The Austin American-Statesman/Hearst Newspapers / Getty In 1835, Harriet Jacobs wedged her 22-year-old body into a crawl space above her grandmother’s house in Edenton, North Carolina, for seven years. Enslaved and hunted by a white man determined to control her body, she chose confinement rather than submission. In her 1861 book “Incidents in the…
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and President Donald Trump are going head-to-head on social media about crime in Baltimore as tensions heat up over the president’s suggestion to expand his federal crime crackdown to major cities where he says violent crime is booming. Trump introduced his federal takeover of Washington, D.C., earlier this month and said…
FILE – Lil Nas X arrives at the 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday March 27, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) Police, suspecting a possible overdose, took the rapper to a hospital, where he spent several hours before being taken to jail, where he…
Sarah Jessica Parker, known for playing fashion-forward Carrie Bradshaw on “Sex and the City,” is making headlines again — but not for her style. New paparazzi photos show the 60-year-old actress appearing noticeably older, and fans are doing a double-take. In the unfiltered shots, Parker is snapped without her usual blonde hair and red carpet…
Anaysheon Coffey, a South Carolina Black woman, was awarded a $120,000 settlement last month because a white cop with a history of racial profiling barged into her home without a warrant and arrested her on fabricated charges in August 2020. And the cop who arrested her, Lancaster police officer Peter Beck, was forced to resign…
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he signs a series of executive Orders in the Oval Office at the White House on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “Trump keeps talking about cracking down on crime, yet the biggest crime is happening right in the…
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty In today’s episode of Completely Shocking News Absolutely No One Except EVERYONE Could Have Predicted, a biographer who says he spent “more than two years deeply involved” in the campaign of President Donald Trump also claims Trump has a problem with Black women, whom the president and his loyalists commonly…
Chief Executive Officer, ESSENCE Caroline A. Wanga speaks onstage during the 2022 15th Annual ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Awards Luncheonat Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on March 24, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for ESSENCE) Wanga steps down a little over a month after responding to the…
Actor Morris Chestnut can do no wrong. The “Reasonable Doubt” star left fans awestruck with a recent Instagram post showing he has changed his signature look. The video, captioned “Decided to hop on this trend. Beard or no beard?” began with a clip of the actor at the 2025 Golden Globes, wearing an impeccably tailored…
Actress Jameela Jamil weighs in on Serena Williams’ weight loss drug endorsement. “Celebrities have access to doctors that most others don’t,” says Jameela Jamil, who flagged the risks of GLP-1s like those Serena Williams endorsed. Jameela Jamil is the latest celebrity to weigh in on Serena Williams’ personal health choices, though she insists her concern…
