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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

(xiquinhosilva/Wikimedia Commons)Medgar Evers didn’t die quietly, and he didn’t die accidentally. He was hunted.On June 12, 1963,...Read more

Keke Palmer is opening up about the realities of being a child star. The actress, host, and singer spoke about her upbringing during a recent interview with Variety, describing her early life in a small Illinois suburb that she...read more

A certain MÅD HÅTTĒR is reaffirming that marriage is not his ultimate goal. During a recent appearance on the Talk Les Show podcast, Cam Newton, once again, made it crystal clear that wedding bells were not in his playbook. “Find where the ring...read more

A new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming, and we have an exclusive look at the library officially opening before some eliminated queens news shocks the Werk Room! Source: RuPaul’s Drag Race / MTV ...read more

The Atlanta Hawks are preparing to have the most epic NBA theme night of all time, and the haters are doing their best to make it rain on the p-poppin’ parade. Previously,...read more

Matthew Knowles was visibly offended by the idea that both he and Tina Knowles helped get their children to where they are today. The father of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles walked out of an interview early after his ex-wife was brought up. The...read more

The backlash from the bigotry put on display by John Davidson at the BAFTAs is still reverberating and up until this point, we had not heard very much...read more

There are interviews that feel like coverage. Then there are conversations that feel like confirmation. Having a conversation with Bessie Akuba Winn and Terri J. Vaughn, discussing their upcoming project, felt like the latter. ...read more

With an Academy Award for Best Original Song hanging in the balance, Grammy Award-winning musician Raphael Saadiq has plenty to talk about—and even more to be grateful for. “This is crazy.” Despite...read more

The Apalachee High School Shooting was one of many examples of the ongoing problem with wanton and unpredictable gun violence in America. Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student...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

Tampa International has reportedly set the record straight after a social media post it shared said the airport was becoming crocs-and-pajama-free. RELATED: That’s Wild! Ja Rule Speaks...Read more

Fans are flooding Monaleo with well-wishes and prayers after the rapper revealed why she canceled upcoming shows. She kicked off her tour in February and planned to perform in cities across...Read more

Rick Ross’ daughter, Toie Roberts, shared an emotional tribute to her son’s father, Lil Poppa, while blasting those who are blaming her for...Read more

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Young Thug is stepping in to clear the air for a second time after viral footage showed him dancing in a fan’s video....Read more

Roommates, it looks like Selena Gomez is standing by her husband, Benny Blanco, and his dirty feet! Recently, the singer went viral after a video showed her kissing...Read more