Source: picture alliance / Getty Boy, I tell ya, 2025 has really been the year of finding out how many companies don’t value Black dollars. Cell service provider T-Mobile is the latest company announcing an end to its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to appease the Trump administration. Last week, T-Mobile sent…
Former President Barack Obama addresses the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum on December 05, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. The 2024 Democracy Forum focused on “pluralism” and exploring how diverse communities can work together. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Barack Obama admits he would have struggled to raise a son after not having a relationship with…
(Photo: Getty Images) After U.S. Attorney General Bondi reneged on her previous claims that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s client list was on her desk, Rep. Jasmine Crockett asks, “When were you lying?” The political campaign to pressure the Trump administration to release the full findings of the federal investigation of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein continues…
“We gotta have an agenda for the diaspora.” Jamal Bryant urges Black communities to fight against Trump-era immigration policies. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) “We have been deluded into believing it is a Latino and Mexican issue,” Jamal Bryant stresses immigration’s impact on Black communities. Jamal Bryant is advocating for more than just…
Tensions are starting to flare after President Donald Trump’s Justice Department recommended just one day in prison for a Louisville police officer involved in the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. The officer, Brett Hankison, was convicted last year of violating Taylor’s civil rights when he fired his gun blindly into her apartment during a…
Simone Biles, 28, was one of the big winners at the 2025 ESPY Awards by taking home two trophies from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on July 16. At the Shane Gillis-hosted event to honor individual and team achievements in sports, the professional gymnast was named Best Women’s Athlete and Best Championship Performance during…
Source: Joe Raedle / Getty A prison—no, a concentration camp—squats in the middle of the Florida Everglades, slick with humidity and menace. Its perimeter is crawling with coiling pythons, prowling alligators, and water thick like swamp stew. But the only sign greeting visitors is deceptively simple, a bright blue highway placard that reads, almost cheerfully,…
Residents gather during a community vigil on Monday, June 30, 2025, to stand in solidarity with an immigrant family after ICE agents detained Rosalina Luna Vargas on Saturday, June 28, in front of her children, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) A newly revealed agreement gives ICE access to the personal data of 79 million…
FILE – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) Florida’s Supreme Court upholds a congressional map that dismantled a majority-Black district, ruling that restoring the district would constitute unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Florida’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state’s current congressional redistricting…
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – SEPTEMBER 22: Akon performs on the Mundo Stage during the Rock in Rio festival at Cidade do Rock on September 22, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images) The “Smack That” rapper and singer also provided an update on the country album that he’s working on…
