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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

University of CaliforniaWhat is woke?While Huddie Ledbetter enshrined the term in the official Black American Unabridged DictionaryRead 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

ContrabandCamp’s BlackCheck scale uses data, facts peer-reviewed research to assess statements based on truthfulness, accuracy, and the level of racism.On Nov. 19, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, requiring the attorney general to release all documents related to the Department of Justice’s 20-year...Read more

Barely a week into February, you’ve probably already had your fill of Black History Month facts for white people. You know what I’m talking about. To satisfy their corporate Black History Month mandate, news outlets and media companies will offer the tiniest, most sanguine morsels of useless Black history...Read more

“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you…What are the words you do not have yet? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them,...Read more

In 1917, Ida B. Wells was undoubtedly the most popular reporter in America and perhaps the most famous American woman in the world. As the face of the anti-lynching movement, racial justice and women’s suffrage, Wells was one of the most polarizing political figures of her day. To Black...Read more

Megan Thee Stallion is proving she still keeps it hot in frozen temperatures as Thee Hot Girl coach has descended upon the Winter Olympics. ...read more

Source: Rémy Martin Storied cognac house Rémy Martin is extending its impactful This Is My City series to Miami and Los Angeles where one emerging...read more

The Supreme Court has been embarrassingly supportive of Donald Trump and his many legally questionable policies since conservative justices took the bench, so to say that this news is a surprise is an understatement. According to AP...read more

Lil Jon confirmed that he said final goodbyes to his 27-year-old son, Nathan, on the first day of Ramadan. Nearly two weeks after the heartbreaking conclusion to the search for Nathan Smith, aka DJ Young Slade, Lil Jon shared...read more

Who are you going to believe, Ray J and his bleeding eyes? The singer is slamming claims that he faked the medical emergency at his Valentine’s Day show after a photographer called cap on the capillary chicanery. “Forget what you’re hearing,” Ray told fans. ...read more

The wigs are laid, the power plays are louder than ever, and the Bellarie family is still allergic to minding their business. Tyler Perry and Netflix just dropped the official trailer for Beauty in Black Season 2 Part 2, and let’s just say Mar. 19 cannot come fast enough. ...read more

Welcome back to BOSSIP’s Black History Hidden Gems, our weekly Black History Month series dedicated to highlighting overlooked Black figures, moments, and milestones. This series spotlights stories that history tried to erased, but legacy refused to forget. Anne Raven Wilkinson was a trailblazing ballerina whose life...read more

In daytime talk news… Rumors were flying faster than a Spirit Tunnel shimmy earlier this month when rumors swirled that The Jennifer Hudson Show might be headed for TV heaven. The chatter picked up steam after news broke about the cancellations of Sherri...read more

Five years after exiting in a flurry of headlines, Monique Samuels returned to The Real Housewives of Potomac, and the Bravo block-spinning baddie spoke to BOSSIP about her buzzed-about reunion dress, a healing-inspired new book, reconciliation with Gizelle, and why not every...read more

Three former America’s Next Top Model judges are speaking out following the release of Netflix’s docuseries about the show. Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, and Miss J Alexander, appear in the doc, titled, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model. This week, the...read more

Yung Miami has the girlies tapping their two fingers to her new ‘Tea Time’ track. Tyla just entered the chat with her reaction. Although some fans are here for the vibes,...Read more

Roomies, Yung Miami has dropped her new track, ‘Tea Time,’ now fans are...Read more

Lil Baby dropped some fire...Read more

Rapper Asian Doll is sparking major conversations after revealing a personal family secret that has fans and followers talking. The Dallas-born artist, born Misharron Jermeisha...Read more

Sometimes the...Read more

Whew! The timeline got real loud after NBA YoungBoy publicly...Read more

Sometimes the very person who preaches love, standards, and...Read more

The internet is crackin’ up after Lil Baby shared a...Read more