This is not the news I was hoping to relay today, but here goes.
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This is not the news I was hoping to relay today, but here goes.
The federal New York trial against disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly may be over, but his Chicago trial just got its official start date.
A statue of Thomas Jefferson will be removed from New York City Hall’s council chamber following a unanimous vote from members of the Public Design Commission on Monday.
One of my favorite past-times is reading (and writing) hot takes. We live in the Internet era—thank you, Al Gore!—where anybody with an Internet connection and social media can let off any and everything that comes to mind. I’m about to do that right now. BRB.
The president of people who put clothes on their dogs wanted to send “250,000 troops—more than half the active U.S. Army, and a sixth of all American forces—to the southern border.” It would’ve been the largest use of the military since the Civil War.
With money pouring into some coffers, applications surging, and alums relentlessly shouting out their alma maters all over social media, HBCUs appear to be having a moment. While they were always revered in the Black community, HBCUs are seeing a greater level of interest, focus, and investment from the mainstream as…
Typically Tuesdays are just Mondays with better Yelp reviews, but on this particular Tuesday, the skies parted and something magical happened—and by “something magical happened,” I mean the NBA made its triumphant return.
On Tuesday, the day before the scheduled walkout organized by several trans and LGBTQ+ employees and allies at Netflix and just days after the streamer fired the walkout’s organizer, co-CEO Ted Sarandos addressed the ongoing criticism about how he handled employee concerns following the release of Dave Chappelle’s…
In the world of fashion, there are the perpetually stylish, and there are icons. To the surprise of virtually no one who’s kept an eye on the red carpet over the past few years, Zendaya falls in the latter category, serving a seemingly ceaseless series of stylistic slays that have only evolved along with career. The…
I don’t know what it is about the growing list of rappers who allegedly can’t keep their hands to themselves, but we unfortunately have to add another artist to the roster.
A college homecoming event turned violent when one person was killed and seven others were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning at Grambling State University in Louisiana.
Who wants that perfect love story anyway (anyway)? If you ever wondered what “Love on the Run” might look like after over a decade of marriage, three children, millions more dollars, and some very public personal reckonings, Jay-Z and Beyoncé are giving us an updated glimpse at their version of marital bliss in the…
In a ruling Monday that was met with little fanfare and didn’t become a trending topic on social media, the “Supreme Court sided with police in two separate rulings on qualified immunity, a legal doctrine shielding officers from lawsuits that has been at the center of protests and debates in Congress and state…
Despite Whoopi’s plea back in December of 2019, it appears John McCain’s daughter still won’t stop talking.
As Lauryn Hill once famously crooned, “It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make this hard.”
The president of people who wear pajama pants with provocative statements across the ass just couldn’t be nice, even while supposedly giving condolences.
“Why does Thomas Markle just not shut up?” It’s a question we and countless other have asked countless times since Meghan Markle became Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. It’s also the question that opened her estranged father’s latest interview with the British media, as he appeared on Good Morning Britain Tuesday to once…
I hate to break it to you, but I’m not calling him Ye.
South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley is really, really, really good at her job. And with most employers, when you’re good at your job, they lavish you with gratitude, promotions, raises, and the like to keep your morale high so you can continue to perform your job at the best of your ability.
Anti-vaxxers have literally begun hijacking the death of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from complications of COVID-19 as proof that the vaccine doesn’t work. They conveniently don’t mention that Powell was severely autoimmune compromised with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that attacks the immune…
In the rich tapestry of history, the threads of Black LGBTQ+ narratives have often been overlooked. This journey into their stories is an ...