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It started after the Civil War. After the white Southern traitors got their asses beat like a Pentecostal church tambourine, the Republican Party was dominated by newly enfranchised Black voters. Across the South, Black and white factions clashed for control of the party, but nowhere more fiercely than in Texas....Read more

Beef in hip-hop is a tale as old as time. As long as rappers have been rapping, other rappers have been rapping about those first rappers being trash at rapping. It’s a feature, not a bug of the genre, and every so often when the best of the lyrical...Read more

(Screenshot PBS News)I am not “in danger,” Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and...Read more

The son of enslaved parents in Goochland County, Va, John Berry Meachum was born in 1789, a few days after the inauguration of George Washington. When Meachum’s enslaver, Paul Meachum, moved him from Virginia to North Carolina to Kentucky, John used his carpentry, blacksmithing and coopering skills to save...Read more

Envato/ContrabandCampThis article was originally published on February 19, 2021.On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing...Read more

Amanda Wallace, left, and Jasmine Sankofa, executive director of Movement for Family Power (Photo courtesy of Amanda Wallace)Protesting...Read more

Opal Lee (Courtesy of Dione Sims)Dr. Opal Lee is often referred to as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” but...Read more

John Moon was unqualified.Adopted by a Pittsburgh family in 1963 after living in an Atlanta orphanage, Moon found work cleaning up what other people left behind. He was an orderly. He changed sheets. He changed bedpans. He did the kind of labor that keeps institutions running but rarely gets applauded....Read more

On Oct. 18, 1867, white South Carolinians awoke to incredibly disturbing news. “There is no use ignoring a palpable fact,” the Charleston Daily News explained. “Every negro almost in the State is enrolled in the League, and is nearly as much under discipline as though he were in the army....Read more

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, its mandate was clear: dismantle structural exclusion in American workplaces.But under the Trump administration, fueled by what I call the “MAGA Delusion,” civil rights enforcement is being repositioned. Tools designed to confront discrimination are being redirected...Read more

In 1865, printer John Brooks Russell was browsing the shelves of a pawn shop in Washington, D.C., when he noticed a box labeled “Edward M. Thomas.” Russell immediately knew Thomas was a Black man who had spent most of his life working as a messenger in the House of Representatives,...Read more

This article originally appeared on NegusWhoRead on Aug. 6, 2020.Karen died today. Or maybe yesterday, I can’t be sure.All I know is that when I was alerted to the existence of a Wikipedia page for the term Karen, I knew it was time to move on. I predicted...Read more

What is woke?While Huddie Ledbetter enshrined the term in the official Black American Unabridged Dictionary 80 years ago, the coal miners who used it in 1940 probably never heard Leadbelly’s song. By the 1960s, “woke” was so entrenched in Black culture that William E. Kelly wrote about...Read more

“There have been many race riots reported in this country,” began the Sept. 2, 1899 article in the Atlanta Constitution. “But the Darien affair can be safely said to stand without a parallel in the history of all the troubles.”What was the Darien Affair, and why did it scare the bejesus...Read more

One of the wildest success stories in Black history began with a great slave escape.Born enslaved in 1819, Ben Montgomery was trafficked in Mississippi at 17 years old to live on Joseph Davis’ Hurricane Plantation in now-David Bend, Miss. Davis was a lawyer and a huge book collector...Read more

(Death Row-Interscope; Ruffhouse-Columbia)Like most self-described hip-hop heads who came of musical age in the 1990s, Sept. 29, 1998,...Read more

This article originally appeared on NegusWhoRead on June 8, 2016.Question: What’s the difference between a Ku Klux Klan rally and a Republican meeting?Answer: One has a bunch of racists who are dedicated to the principles of intolerance, Christian nationalism and white supremacy. The other is a Klan rally. Hello?...Read more

(Envato Elements)On Sept. 29, 1683, more than two centuries before a criminal immigrant named Friedrich Trump arrived...Read more

On Sunday, Aug. 17, 1862, the New York Times published a brief blurb titled “Employing the Contrabands.” One month earlier, Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, granting President Abraham Lincoln permission to “employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem necessary and proper for the suppression...Read more

Kelly Rowland and Method Man in “Relationship Goals.” (Photo by Amanda Matlovich/Prime)Remember the good ol’ days, when a...Read more

The long-standing cold war between New York’s 50 Cent and Atlanta’s T.I. has officially turned into a hate campaign. On Friday, 50 Cent proved once again that he is the undisputed king of being petty. Using the release of his latest television...read more

Source: Jocelyn Prescod / Bravo Bravo’s scarlet stunners of Married To Medicine sizzled and slayed the season 12 reunion with standout looks ranging from Quad’s sultry slit, to...read more

Sinners star Delroy Lindo charmingly shut down discussion of the N-word incident again as he focuses on “the joy” of Oscar night, but he did reveal what went through his mind on the BAFTA stage. ...read more

Former University of Michigan (UM) head football coach Sherrone Moore pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors stemming from an incident that led to his arrest in December 2025, according to ABCNews. BOSSIP previously reported...read more

Cardi B‘s Little Miss Drama Tour has been moving exactly how the title suggests: loud, flashy, dramatic, and impossible to ignore—with a number of celebs popping in to support. The run launched on February 11, 2026, at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert,...read more

Source: Anadolu / Getty Rev. Jesse Jackson, titan of the civil rights movement, pastor...read more

A new Summer House housemate is bonding over shared Blackness, flirting with a Hamptons romance, and sounding off on this season’s bro-code breach. Source: Kareem Black / Bravo ...read more

SZA’s sophomore album, SOS, was hugely successful both critically and commercially–but not everyone expected that to happen. In a new cover story for i-D’s The Lore Issue, the singer claimed that her record label told her SOS wouldn’t reach No. 1....read more

BLK is already busy making space for Black love and community. Now, the popular dating app is making extra room for Black joy this Spring Break season, this time with two days of free experiences on Miami Beach. Yeah, we said it…FREE! While...read more

Jeannie Mai is speaking out amid rumors she and a certain bouncy bob’d multihyphenate maestro are secretly seeing each other. In a new update on her love life, the TV personality made it clear that dating after divorce is not some cute little...read more

Ari Fletcher is never afraid...Read more

Chrisean Rock is speaking out after...Read more

Queen Naija seems to always leave the net in a frenzy anytime she or her longtime partner Clarence NYC hint at anything related to their 7-year relationship. Even...Read more

Whew! Blueface had everyone doing a double take on Friday night after sharing a post that immediately grabbed attention. The ‘Thotiana’ rapper opened up on social media...Read more

Monaleo has been keeping fans on their toes lately, and this...Read more

Roomies, Yung Joc has the internet asking “since when?”...Read more

The Knowles family drama is heating up again, and...Read more

Tensions in the Middle East are heating up, and one familiar figure is speaking out in a way that has everyone talking. As fears of retaliation against...Read more