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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

(xiquinhosilva/Wikimedia Commons)Medgar Evers didn’t die quietly, and he didn’t die accidentally. He was hunted.On June 12, 1963,...Read more

Porsha Williams recently took a dream getaway trip with her girlfriend, Patrice “Sway” McKinney. On March 4, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star shared photos and videos from their romantic trip to Bali, Indonesia, where the couple...read more

A pretty perturbed Mathew Knowles is considering legal action after an interview where he questioned how much Tina Knowles contributed to Destiny’s Child’s success leaked. Meanwhile, Beyoncé’s superstar mom is offering a perfectly timed reminder of her extensive résumé. ...read more

When two basketball legends sit down to talk mastery, it makes sense they’d bring in someone who’s chasing that same level of greatness in a completely different arena. That’s exactly what happened on a special live episode of Mind the Game in Hollywood,...read more

You know why we’re here! Back at it again with this week’s hottest thirst traps that dropped during an eventful week dominated by T.I.’s ongoing feud with 50 Cent, Cardi surprising her Houston crowd with a Megan Thee Stallion pop-up,...read more

Season 17 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta is set to premiere in April, and for newcomer K. Michelle, the moment has been a long time in the making—at least according to Bravo boss Andy Cohen. During the March 4 episode of his Radio Andy...read more

Stefon Diggs‘ mother, Stephanie Diggs, was excited to post about attending Cardi B’s concert–despite reports the rapper broke up with her son. Megan Thee Stallion wasn’t the only special guest at Cardi’s Little Miss Drama tour stop in Houston! On Wednesday,...read more

Cardi B treated her Houston audience to a guest appearance from a hometown hero. On Wednesday, March 4, Cardi performed for a sold-out crowd at Houston’s Toyota Center. While fans were just excited to see Little Miss Drama herself, she treated BardiGang...read more

The pain of losing a young child by any means will result in immeasurable grief. Sadly, Raneka Pate...read more

The death of Caleb Wilson is incredibly sad and also very infuriating. BOSSIP previously reported that Wilson dropped dead during an off-campus Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. event after allegedly being intensely hazed. In the aftermath of his death,read more

T.I. couldn’t help but be proud of his offspring for defending him during a recent online spat with 50 Cent. During a recent appearance on The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show, T.I. opened up about his family’s involvement in his ongoing tension with 50...read more

Mathew Knowles has clarified the stunning response he gave when he was asked about Tina Knowles‘ contributions to Destiny’s Child. RELATED: Match Made? Mathew Knowles’...Read more

A clip posted by Michael B. Jordan‘s younger brother, Khalid Jordan, has social media crackin’ UP. RELATED: Awww! Michael B. Jordan Stepped Out Alongside His Mom...Read more

Claressa Shields is showing her man, Papoose, major love as he turns 48. Early Thursday (March 5), she...Read more

 Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night (March 4) in Southern California and booked early the...Read more

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Sometimes the past hits differently when you’re looking back as adults—and...Read more

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Bhad Bhabie is facing scrutiny...Read more