Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Some Democratic members of Congress are trying to hold up historic economic investments pledged by the Biden Administration, including a provision that could lower the cost of prescription drugs. By obstructing efforts to lower prescription drug prices, these legislators are standing in […]
A racist FedEx driver was fired after refusing to deliver to homes that show support for Black Lives Matter, President Biden and Kamala Harris. FedEx terminated the employment of Vincent Paterno after he posted a video to TikTok bragging that he was not delivering packages to customers who did not share the same political […]
A copyright infringement case could cost a YouTuber millions of dollars and hundreds of years in prison. On Tuesday morning, police arrested YouTuber Bill Omar Carrasquillo, who is accused of stealing television shows and using it for his own streaming platform to makes millions. Carrasquillo, who goes by “Omi in a Hellcat” […]
Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking and innovative filmmaker, writer, and musician known as the Godfather of Black Cinema, has died at 89. Van Peebles’ family issued a statement announcing he passed Tuesday evening at his home in Manhattan. ‘This Isn’t About Good People or Bad People’: The Root […]
A boy bathes himself with a jug of water inside a migrant camp at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 21, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. | Source: John Moore / Getty In a stunning reversal, Haitian migrants who have gathered in Texas in an effort […]
Two former police officers in California who were accused of seriously beating a Black teenager nearly two years ago have been indicted. According to NBC News, the Stockton, CA, police officers, Michael Stiles and Omar Villapudua, who beat a Black teen Devin Carter, after pursuing him in a car chase, were indicted by a grand […]