Kevin Hart will host the 2019 Academy Awards, bringing some much-needed melanin to the annual award show that has been hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for the past two years. The Night School star confirmed the news on Instagram on Tuesday evening and called the gig “the opportunity of a […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A forensic examination shows a black man was shot three times in the back side of his body when an Alabama police officer mistook him for the shooter after gunfire erupted at a crowded shopping mall, the man’s family said […]
*Before Greenwood (Oklahoma) was destroyed in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, it was probably one of the most well off Black communities in the country. Would you believe that is was even known as the Black Wall Street? This was because of the amount of concentrated wealth that […]
Edward “Duke” Ellington’s time as the house band leader for Harlem’s Cotton Club began on December 4, 1927 and lasted four years. The move enhanced Ellington’s career and that of his band mates and collaborators. Ellington’s band received the opportunity to play at the Cotton […]
Racists don’t even take a break for the holidays. A recent video has gone viral of 11th grade students in an American History class at Dover High School in New Hampshire singing a KKK-inspired “Jingle Bells” song that includes the lyrics “Kill all the Blacks.” […]
Last Thursday, the religious website Patheos reported allegations of sexual harassment made against Neil deGrasse Tyson. One physicist accused him of non-consensually feeling beneath her dress at a conference, while a former assistant said he had made suggestive comments to her that prompted her to quit her […]
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