J Prince, the founder of Rap-A-Lot Records and legendary music mogul took to Instagram on Tuesday (June 1) to not only mourn the loss of his nephew who was shot and killed in Houston over Memorial Day Weekend but publicly declare he wasn’t idly sitting by and […]
A Black security guard who was arrested during the George Floyd protests last year is suing Minnesota State Patrol for being unlawfully apprehended, reports the Associated Press. The plaintiff, Michael Cooper, was assigned to the security detail of a CNN news crew the day after the arrest of CNN correspondent Omar […]
Body camera footage from an April encounter between police in an Atlanta suburb and a 35-year-old Black man shows that officers warned each other about the need to provide aid to the man they’d just shot inside his own home but failed to do so for over […]
CeCe Telfer is a transgender athlete who aspires to pursue an Olympic dream of qualifying for the U.S. trials, then race in the 400-meter hurdles. Telfer must run the race in 56.5 seconds; her best time has been 57.5 seconds. The New York Times profiled Telfer, who has received death […]
Former President Barack Obama is weighing in on the UFO controversy, telling New York Times columnist Ezra Klein that the existence of aliens “wouldn’t change my politics at all,” he said. “Because my entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little […]
Exclusive: President Biden is focusing on the racial disparity in homeownership and Black home appraisals that are considerably lower for Black homeowners versus white homeowners President Joe Biden’s visit to the Greenwood district comes as the nation recognizes 100 years since 10,000 Black people were displaced […]