Facebook has apologized after its artificial intelligence software appeared to label a group of Black men who appeared in a video shared on the platform as “primates.” An automated prompt asked viewers of a video titled “white man calls cops on black men at marina” […]
Dr. Bettye Kearse, retired pediatrician and black descendant of President James Madison, is the author of the award-winning book The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President’s Black Family (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). In recounting the struggles, perseverance, and contributions of eight generations of Kearse’s family, this memoir […]
Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Actor Michael K. Williams was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment today (September 6), according to reports from New York Post. He was 54 years old. While Williams’ cause of death has not yet been confirmed, sources suggest a possible overdose as evidence of […]
Johnson and two others were found dead following a suspected drug overdose, according to TMZ. The site goes on to report that the Los Angeles-based comic died early Saturday morning after attending a house party the night before in the Venice area of LA. Emergency personnel pronounced […]
Congress said the deluge offered irrefutable evidence that power lines, roads, bridges and other infrastructure are deteriorating even as extreme weather is strengthening Shaken by haunting images of surging rivers, flooded roads and subways and other damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, lawmakers from […]
The district attorney says police were firing in response to someone who fired at them as a football game they were monitoring came to a close. The bullets that took the life of 8-year-old Fanta Bility and wounded her sister outside of a high school football game […]
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