Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty The monthlong shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may be coming to a close after the Senate unanimously passed a bill that funds most of the department, except for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. According to The New York Times, the vote came after President…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 03: Tyler Perry attends “Tyler Perry’s Straw” New York Screening at The Plaza on June 03, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) According to reports, Perry visited Atlanta’s airport on March 26 with the intention of giving cash directly to TSA agents who have gone…
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – MARCH 19: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth provides updates on the continued military operations on Iran 2during a press briefing on the Iran war at the Pentagon on March 19, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) “The racism and the misogyny is so blatant and so evident,” military veteran…
Source: Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department / CCSD On Thursday, Aliyah Henderson pleaded not guilty to the deaths of her eight and 10-year-old daughters. NBC News reports that Henderson was charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping, murder, endangering children, and offenses against a human corpse. Henderson appeared via video in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and remained…
(L-R) Tyrese and Tank from TGT perform onstage during Day 2 of the 2024 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Caesars Superdome on July 06, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images for ESSENCE) TGT bandmates, Tank and Tyrese, traded hits and jabs in a “Verzuz” battle that had…
Betty Cater, an 80-year-old Black woman, was parked in front of her home in Long Island, New York, when she called police in 2024, believing her house was being burglarized. The first Nassau County officers who arrived advised her to remain in her car for her safety while they investigated. Betty Cater was abused and…
Source: JIM WATSON / Getty When President Donald Trump declared, “We ended DEI” during his State of the Union address, two things became clear: his administration aimed to elevate white supremacy, and everyone who supported this regime shares the blame. “White people were very badly treated,” Trump told the New York Times earlier this year…
President Donald Trump is facing renewed scrutiny after claiming that Iran is “begging” the United States for a deal, even as multiple reports indicate Tehran has rejected his proposal and is signaling interest in working with Vice President JD Vance instead. In remarks circulating widely online from the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner on March…
Source: PHILIP MICHAEL WILLS / Getty There are bad ideas, there are terrible ideas, and then there are ideas so aggressively, almost artistically misguided that you have to wonder if someone in the room actively hates Black people—or at the very least assumes we won’t notice. Social media has actually been floating the idea of…
Source: JIM WATSON / Getty Breonna Taylor’s mother has spoken out after the Department of Justice moved to drop charges against two police officers who drafted the no-knock warrant that led to Taylor’s shooting death by Louisville police. “She was killed because of their lies and negligence, and somebody should be held accountable for that,”…
