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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

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

The Real Housewives of Potomac stars Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Eddie Osefo, are officially heading to court as their ongoing fraud case moves forward. However, the couple will not be facing trial side-by-side. According to podcast host Taria Shondell Faison of the...read more

Kristi Noem’s sudden ouster from Donald Trump inner sanctum is the big tea that has been spilling out of Washington, D.C. since the kettle of news broke yesterday. Noem is now the first person to hear The...read more

The beef between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj is seemingly never-ending, and now one of their siblings has entered the (concert) chat. Cardi has been playing sold-out shows across North America on her Little Miss Drama tour since last month, bringing out...read more

Tyrone Covington, a U.S. Army veteran, has been sentenced after allegedly striking his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, Josiyah Robinson, more than 100 times, beating him...Read more

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Aliyah Henderson, a Cleveland mother, has been arrested and charged after the remains of her two young daughters were reportedly found stuffed in suitcases. RELATED: Read more

Nevaeh Akira shared a precious clip of Blueface cradling and loving on her growing baby bump. RELATED: Jaidyn Alexis Breaks Silence & Reacts To Blueface & Nevaeh Akira’s...Read more

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