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Have you considered a career in stealing?Right now, the state of South Carolina is offering scholarships to 15,000 aspiring scammers who are committed to thieving money from Black taxpayers. If you have school-age children and belong to a poor, unfortunate, needy family that earns less than a measlyRead more

When Higher Learning hosts Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsey recently discussed the rising cost of Black barbers, it was the perfect opportunity to interrogate the economic influences that fuel systemic inequality. But to approach this topic, one must first address an even more important social issue:Why are there so...Read more

Barbie Bassett (Screenshot/Woman to Woman With Joanne via YouTube)Have you ever been at a party or gathering where...Read more

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

Cardi B’s tour is appropriately named the Little Miss Drama Tour because it’s been full of nonstop viral moments to keep us all entertained. The rapper is known for keeping things entertaining on stage, but the Bronx superstar is also just as quick to...read more

Here’s a ~350-word casual, slightly humorous summary of the article. On what seemed like a perfectly normal NBA night, Bam Adebayo woke up and apparently decided he was tired of being known mainly as a great defender and solid All-Star. Instead, the big...read more

More details about the would-be wedding of Dak Prescott and Sarah Jane Ramos have been revealed. Prescott and Ramos were set to getting married next month, but recently called off their wedding. Initial reports suggested that a prenuptial agreement is why Ramos...read more

Dwight Howard and Royce Reed’s 17-year-old son, Braylon, is speaking out following those explosive accusations made by the retired NBA star’s estranged wife, Amy Luciani, about his alleged cocaine addiction earlier this week.  Here’s what Braylon had to say about his...read more

A Florida woman is facing serious charges after prosecutors say she opened fire outside of Rihanna’s home earlier this week. Ivanna Ortiz, 35, from Orlando, was charged Tuesday with one count of attempted murder, nine counts of assault with a firearm, two counts...read more

Source: When women like Teyana Taylor, Jordan Chiles, and Queen Latifah are in the same room, you already know the vibe is going to be...read more

When the criminal justice system give you lemons, you have to be prepared to make some litigation lemonade. A young Black man named Anthony Marsh Jr. was killed back in April 2021 under some particularly sad circumstances according to Theread more

Haute Diggity Dog! We’re back with our annual heapin’ helpin’ of purrrty darlins who looked mighty FINE in their cutesy cowgirl getups at this year’s world-famous Houston Rodeo in H-Town. The bustlin’ event...read more

It looks like the wedding rumors surrounding Zendaya and Tom Holland might not be rumors after all. The internet is buzzing after the actress stepped out during Paris Fashion Week rocking what appears to be a gold wedding band beneath herread more

Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty – Mo’Nique attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix’s “The Deliverance” at Netflix Tudum Theater on Aug. 28, 2024. Mo’Nique shared an open letter to fellow actress Whoopi Goldberg...read more

Y’all! Terrence Howard is spilling a little tea about a surprising moment from his past involving none other than QueenRead more

Claressa Shields and Papoose‘s recent baecation flicks have some social media users goin’ IN. RELATED: Whew! Internet User Tells Claressa Shields Her “Attitude Is Not Nice” &...Read more

Malika Haqq and Khadijah Haqq have puzzled fans after posting a photo of them kissing on the lips in celebration of their 43rd birthday....Read more

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Asian Doll is getting back to music seven months after giving birth to her daughter, Mi’Lani. As she continues adjusting to balancing motherhood and her rapper...Read more

Roomies, Ashanti has turned heads with her turnt-up energy during a recent performance. RELATED: Come Thru! Ashanti Pens Loving Message For Nelly While Sharing Stunning Photos From Her 45th Birthday...Read more

An after-school fight in Georgia resulted in the death of a 12-year-old girl. Now, her mother is speaking out, telling the media that their daughter Jada West was the victim of...Read more

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