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(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

Today’s Wake-Up Call started with the story of the Black Armed Guard of Monroe, N.C. Robert Franklin Williams was born on Feb. 26, 1925, in Monroe, N.C., to Emma Carter and John L. Williams. During his teen years, Williams’ grandmother, a formerly enslaved woman of Yoruba ancestry, gave Robert the...Read more

Even though some fans don’t believe Ray J’s health is as bad as he claims, his mother insists the reality star is genuinely struggling. On Tuesday, March 3, the singer’s mom, Sonja Norwood, went live on Facebook to address her followers. She...read more

Part three of The Real Housewives of Potomac reunion did what it does best: served looks, side-eyes, and shade–but a returning cast member is now clearing the air about an audio clip she initially believed implicated Stacey Rusch. “I at least wanted...read more

Cardi B isn’t letting Tasha K get away with owing her money for much longer, demanding some action in the years-old case. The rapper is now demanding that K produce records relating to her income from YouTube and other social media...read more

For Lupita Nyong’o’s birthday, her wish is to save other women from “suffering in silence” as she did with 77 uterine fibroids. “This is not a rare story, just a rarely told one,” she wrote. ...read more

The story of Henrietta Lacks is one that lays bare the variety of ways in which Black people have been historically deceived, taken advantage of, played, finessed, and scammed by these United States of America. In 1951,...read more

Another person in Zendaya’s camp has reacted to the news of her rumored secret wedding. The Dune star’s mother, Claire Stoermer, has reacted to Zendaya’s longtime stylist and friend Law Roach’s claim that her daughter is already married to Tom Holland....read more

In #BOSSIPSounds news… A Detroit-born artist and creative director has dropped a stylized, crime-inspired short-form series with reality stars. A press release reports that Ashwin Gane’s FlipDat Cases...read more

They’re baaaaack! Everybody’s buzzing over the long-awaited new Scary Movie trailer which clowns everything from Sinners to Get Out while reuniting fans of the once-hilarious parody franchise with Shorty (Marlon Wayans), Ray (Shawn Wayans), Brenda...read more

The industry might be all in on Ozempic, but Ice Spice insists she’s not a part of the epidemic. When the rapper first rose to fame in 2022, she gained a lot of admirers not only for her music, but also her...read more

Rajon Belt-Stubblefield was fatally shot by an Aurora, Colorado, police officer named Matthew Neely in August 2025. He was stopped by Neely for a potential DUI, but fled in his vehicle before crashing into several parked vehicles at a busy intersection, according to Denver7. ...read more

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Ray J‘s mom, Sonja Norwood, is speaking out and setting the record straight on his health. RELATED: Prayers Up! Footage Of Ray J Performing With Chest Patch & Apparent Blood...Read more

After six months, a House Committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein finally got former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...Read more

Roomies, Ari Fletcher is turnin’ heads with a risqué new look she donned for a recent shoot. RELATED: Hol’ Up! Ari Fletcher Appears To Call Moneybagg Yo...Read more

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Social media users are goin’ IN on a clip of Blueface showin’ off his boxing jabs. RELATED: Karlissa Weighs In As Folks Think Blueface Shaded Chrisean Rock...Read more

Claressa Shields is clapping back at internet users after she sparked heat for saying she wishes she could “surprise” Papoose with a baby for his birthday. RELATED: Read more