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The Wake-Up Call Live: Jasmine Crockett's Loss, ExplainedIt 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
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How T.I. and 50 Cent’s Beef Unintentionally Unveiled the Full Spectrum of the Harris Family TalentBeef 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 -
We're the Villains Now(Screenshot PBS News)I am not “in danger,” Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and...Read more -
The Wake-Up Call: It’s ComplicatedThe 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 -
Throwback Thursday: The Black Women Who Won ReparationsEnvato/ContrabandCampThis article was originally published on February 19, 2021.On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing...Read more -
Amanda Wallace Once Worked for Child Protective Services. Now She Wants to Abolish It.Amanda Wallace, left, and Jasmine Sankofa, executive director of Movement for Family Power (Photo courtesy of Amanda Wallace)Protesting...Read more -
Opal Lee, ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth,’ Passes Torch to Granddaughter for Congressional RunOpal Lee (Courtesy of Dione Sims)Dr. Opal Lee is often referred to as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” but...Read more -
The Blackest Squads of All Time: The Freedom House Delivery DriversJohn 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
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The Wake-Up Call: Jesse, Jesters and JusticeOn 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 -
Lucas v. Nike: The EEOC’s Pivot From Civil Rights Enforcement to Grievance PoliticsWhen 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 -
The Blackest Squads of All Time: The Great EscapeIn 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 -
Throwback Thursday: The 6 Kinds of KarenThis 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 -
How Jesse Jackson Made Politics 'Woke'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 -
The Blackest Squads of All Time: The McIntosh Mafia“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 -
The Wake-Up Call Live: The Greatest Stories Ever UntoldOne 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
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Feb. 13, 1996, Is the Greatest Release Day in Hip-Hop History. Yes, I Said It.(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 -
Throwback Thursday: Definitive Proof That Republicans Are RacistThis 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 -
How American Are You?(Envato Elements)On Sept. 29, 1683, more than two centuries before a criminal immigrant named Friedrich Trump arrived...Read more
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The Blackest Squads of All Time: Prince and the RevolutionariesOn 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
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Black Audiences Deserve Better Than ‘Relationship Goals’Kelly Rowland and Method Man in “Relationship Goals.” (Photo by Amanda Matlovich/Prime)Remember the good ol’ days, when a...Read more
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Florida Woman Arrested For Attempted Murder After Firing Shots At Rihanna’s Beverly Hills Home With AR-15 Style WeaponThe woman who fired shots at Rihanna’s home in Beverly Hills has been taken into custody. A 35-year-old Florida woman armed with an AR-15 style weapon reportedly fired several shots into the singer’s Beverly Hills-area home on Sunday, March 8. Rihanna lives...read more -
Steven Jones: Connecticut Man Shot 9 Times By Police During Mental Health Crisis, Medical Examiner Rules HomicideIn Hartford, Connecticut, a man named Steven Jones, 55 years old, was shot by a Hartford police officer during what officials say was a mental health crisis. According...read more -
Update: Tasha K Launches GoFundMe To Raise $3.5 Million She Owes Cardi B, Says Her ‘Only’ Birthday Wish Is To Beat BankruptcyTasha K is trying to tap into different sources of income to pay Cardi B the millions she’s owed. The blogger and YouTuber has launched a GoFundMe to raise money, hoping to pay Cardi B the $3.5 million she owes after their...read more -
Silly Games, Pricey Prizes: Ari Fletcher Says She’s Suing Akademiks Over Defamatory Dating Gossip—‘I’m Taking It To Hell’Ari Fletcher is not letting DJ Akademiks play with her name or her reputation, and is promising to “take it to hell” after the streamer claimed that she “slept with half of Atlanta.” The influencer...read more -
Referee Knocked Out During Women’s NCAA Basketball BrawlThe post Referee Knocked Out During Women’s NCAA Basketball Brawl appeared first on Bossip.read more -
Magic City Says Relax: Hawks Night Will Be Wings, Music And Zero NudityThe post Magic City Says Relax: Hawks Night Will Be Wings, Music And Zero Nudity appeared first on Bossip.read more -
Patrick Beverley Explains The Night He Was Arrested For Allegedly Choking His SisterThe post Patrick Beverley Explains The Night He Was Arrested For Allegedly Choking His Sister appeared first on Bossip.read more -
Rihanna’s Beverly Hills Home Hit by Gunfire While Singer Was Inside, Suspect ArrestedAt least 10 rounds were fired at a Beverly Hills residence belonging to Rihanna on Sunday while the singer was home. The Los...read more -
Oui Love To See It! Lori Harvey & Damson Idris Seemingly Confirm Reconciliation With Lusty Lip Locking In ParisThe City of Lights just got a lot brighter and hotter thanks to Lori Harvey and Damson Idris. Over the weekend, the former couple didn’t just hint at a reunionbut they seemingly confirmed it while visiting Paris for their fashion week. Amid the high-fashion backdrop...read more -
Petty AF Fracas! Bia ‘Big Foot’ Blasts Megan Thee Stallion For Copious Cackles At Cardi B’s ‘Pretty & Petty’ DissThe rap landscape of 2026 is proving to be a battlefield of alliances and sharp-edged subliminals. Just when fans thought the dust might be settling on the various rap feuds, the Bia and Cardi B beef has been reignited, thanks to a...read more
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Whew! GloRilla’s Sister Victoria Woods Shares Strong Words For Scrappy & Momma Dee While Continuing Her Feud With Gloss Up (VIDEOS)Victoria Woods shared strong words for Scrappy and Momma Dee while continuing her feud with Gloss Up. RELATED: We See You! Tia...Read more -
Prayers Up! Man Who Pushed For Traffic Light After Wife’s Fatal Crash Dies At Same Intersection (VIDEO)For almost two years, Gerry Goldberg advocated for a traffic light installation at an...Read more
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Awww! JT Shows Off Romantic Gifts From Lil Uzi Vert While Giving Peek Into Her “Safe Place” (VIDEOS)Lil Uzi Vert knows exactly how...Read more -
Prayers Up! Georgia High School Teacher Tragically Dies After Harmless Senior Prank Goes Wrong (VIDEO)Jason Hughes, a Georgia high school teacher, died after what...Read more
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