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The Wake-Up Call: How Jalen Rose's Hairline Fueled the Racial Wealth GapWhen 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
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Did a White Anchor Deserve to Be Fired for Quoting Snoop Dogg? Fo’ ShizzleBarbie Bassett (Screenshot/Woman to Woman With Joanne via YouTube)Have you ever been at a party or gathering where...Read more -
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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Unbothered Baller Dwight Howard Files For Divorce After Drug Abuse Allegations From Amy Luciani, Royce Reed Swiftly Shades Sudden SplitTwo days after Amy Luciani accused Dwight Howard of struggling with a drug addiction, he filed for divorce and demanded that she leave his mansion. His ex, Royce Reed, wasted no time shading the situation on social media. ...read more -
Pulling The (P-Poppin’) Plug: The Atlanta Hawks Cancel ‘Magic City Monday’ Game After Baller BacklashGrand opening, grand closing. Despite anticipation for a game centered on celebrating ATL cultural institution, Magic City, the Atlanta Hawks are pulling the (p-popping) plug. The NBA team’s Magic City Monday game is no more after commissioner Adam...read more -
Ivanna Lisette Ortiz: Here’s What We Know About The ‘Bible Influencer’ Arrested For The Rihanna Beverly Hills Home ShootingSource: Matteo Prandoni & Sansho Scott/BFA.com / Courtesy of AWGE Things got scary for Rihanna after a shocking shooting incident unfolded outside her Los Angeles home and the suspect’s bizarre online history quickly started...read more -
Family First! Jesse Jackson Jr. Makes It Clear That Obama, Clinton, And Biden ‘Do Not Know Jesse Jackson’The passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson after an extended bout with progressive supranuclear palsy still has the civil rights community and the world at large mourning. Saturday, Jackson’s son, Jesse Jackson Jr., took the stage at the Rainbow...read more -
North West Reportedly Rejected By Hermès Over Rare Kelly BagIt’s notoriously difficult to buy a handbag from Hermès–even if you’re one of the most famous kids in the world. Kim Kardashian and Ye–formerly known as Kanye West–once tried to purchase an Hermès Kelly bag for their eldest daughter, but were denied....read more -
2026 ESSENCE Festival Features Cardi, Kehlani, Brandy & Monica Bringing Bayou Blessings To NOLAThe culture’s biggest summer link up is officially loading. The ESSENCE Festival of Culture returns in 2026 and the first (all-women) wave of performers is making headlines. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, this first announcement is filled with fan favorite...read more -
Harpo, Who Dis Woman?! Social Media Slams ‘The New Yorker’ For Sketchy Caricature Of Wunmi Mosaku: ‘Do Better!’WHOMST?! Sinners fans are dragging The New Yorker back to the drawing board for a questionable “caricature” of Wunmi Mosaku they say put the “ill” in illustration. Regular readers defended it as one of the publication’s signature sketches, but a Black woman artist namedread more -
Getting In The Way: Jill Scott Was Told To Lose Her Copious Curves & Straighten Her Neo-Soul Strands Before Releasing Her Debut AlbumJill Scott may be loved “especially different” by fans, but that same admiration apparently wasn’t extended to her by an exec who thought her look was getting in the way of her success. Fresh off the release of...read more -
Undeterred Dwight Howard Seen Smiling At Laker’s Game After Amy Luciani’s Drug Use AllegationsDwight Howard appeared relaxed and unfazed over the weekend despite explosive allegations made by his wife, Amy Luciani, regarding his alleged cocaine use and abuse. On Sunday, March 8, the former NBA star was spotted sitting courtside at the Lakers game. At...read more -
Florida Woman Identified As Shooter After Firing Assault Riffle At Rihanna’s Beverly Hills Home, Arrested For Attempted MurderThe 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,...read more
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Chris Brown’s Apparent Comment To TikToker Who Posted About Looking Like Karrueche Tran Has Internet Users Dropping Side-Eyes (VIDEO)Chris Brown‘s apparently deleted comment to a TikToker who posted a clip about looking like Karrueche Tran has social media users dropping side-eyes....Read more -
Ivana Lisette Ortiz’s Social Media Posts About Rihanna Resurface After $10M Bail Set In Shooting At Singer’s Home (PHOTOS)Police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots near the Los Angeles home of Rihanna on Sunday, according to police and news reports. That woman has been identified as Ivana...Read more -
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
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