New York City Mayor Eric Adams tends to be quick to the podium when violence is on the rise in his city so he can bizarrely attack Black Lives Matter, but when it comes to less performative things like, say, a natural disaster wreaking havoc in NYC, he suddenly changes his name to Mayor Johnny ComeLately […]
Disgraced actor and comedian Bill Cosby is, once again, being sued by a woman who claims he drugged and raped her. it’s almost as if the octogenarian is destined to spend the rest of his life defending himself against the dozens of accusers he and his attorneys say are all telling the same lie about […]
French rapper MHD has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted of murder. According to Deadline, the 29-year-old, born Mohamed Sylla, was found guilty of being involved in the gang-related killing of Loic K in Paris in 2018. Sylla had pleaded not guilty, and throughout his prosecution, he maintained that he wasn’t […]
Okay, at some point, we really have to talk about what a broke boy Rudy Giuliani has become ever since his boy Donald Trump got him and 17 others indicted under Georgia’s RICO statute for their alleged conspiracy to overturn a legal election because they wanted to keep their big orange baby in his Oval […]
Back in July, scholar, activist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates quietly attended a Lexington-Richland Five School Board meeting prompted by the South Carolina district’s decision to end a Chapin High School AP Language teacher’s lesson on Coates’ 2015 nonfiction bestseller, Between the World and Me. And because Black people really can’t tell our stories without white people getting […]
On Saturday, Sept. 16, LeMisha Grinstead took to Instagram to announce the devastating news that her younger sister and fellow member of ’90s R&B group 702, Irish Grinstead, has passed away at the age of 43. “It is with great sadness that I have to let you know that my beautiful sister and friend has […]
Pop singer Ariana Grande‘s aesthetic has been the subject of some controversy over the past few years. She has often been accused of “Blackfishing” and “Asianfishing,” but the “Everyday” singer has never publicly addressed that or anything else regarding work she’s had done to create her look—until now. In a video Grande recorded for Vogue, […]
Whoopi Goldberg Returns To ‘The View’ Wearing Folding Chair Necklace To Commemorate Montgomery Brawl
Whoopi Goldberg recently missed The View‘s Season 27 premiere after contracting COVID-19, but now she’s back and she’s got some new jewelry. On Monday’s episode, Goldberg wore a necklace with a folding chair pendant to commemorate last month’s brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, where a group of white people jumped a Black boat captain and got […]
Have you ever asked your homeboy/homegirl for advice on how to shoot your shot at someone you’re interested in only to have that friend give you bad advice that causes your “shot” to be an immediate brick? Well, if that has happened to you, at least you’re fortunate enough not to have it happen while […]
Two years ago, Michigan State University’s head football coach Mel Tucker, one of the most prominent and highest-paid college football coaches in the nation, joined forces with an activist to educate and raise awareness about sexual violence in the sports world. But according to that activist, who is also a survivor of sexual violence, Turner […]
R&B songstress Chloe Bailey is the latest recording artist to be featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series, and like many of the iconic artists who performed on the series before her, Bailey has gifted us all with a mini-concert that serves as a master class in musical artistry. It was a vibe, to say […]
Y‘all remember how disappointed a lot of us were when LeVar Burton wasn’t selected to replace the late great Alex Trebek as the new permanent host of the iconic game show Jeopardy!. We were like: How dare they not choose the man who gave us 21 fabulous seasons of Reading Rainbow, got his foot chopped off for the culture […]