Police officers are catching hell on Twitter after a video posted Saturday (August 8) on the social media platform purported to show them preventing people from painting a Michael Brown mural in Ferguson, Missouri. Sunday (August 9) marked the sixth anniversary of the former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson gunning …

Leslie Odom Jr.’s performance as Aaron Burr in the original cast of Hamilton received so much acclaim that it landed him a Tony Award. Even with that though, his contract negotiations over the film adaptation of the highly-successful play dragged on way longer than he would’ve liked. On Monday’s episode of …

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Things have reportedly been strained between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian over the past few months, as the rapper and entrepreneur appeared to be struggling with his mental health and publicly revealing personal family matters. However, it looks like their children might be bringing them closer together. Vacationing in the …

Photo: Stock (Shutterstock) It’s apparently open season on Black people in America, and that includes our children. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is now investigating a shooting incident in which officers from the Waycross Police Department in Ware County, Georgia fired multiple times at a vehicle of …

Director Spike Lee’s first feature-length film, She’s Gotta Have It, premiered in theaters on Aug. 8, 1986. She’s Gotta Have It is a comedy about Nola Darling, a free-spirited African-American woman in Brooklyn, New York, and her three suitors. Lee makes an appearance in the film as one of those suitors, a bike messenger named Mars …

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Democrats are calling out the head of the U.S. Postal Service, who is a donor to the Trump Campaign and chair of the finance committee for the GOP convention, even as he continues to barrel forward with a series of changes that have been majorly …

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s hit collab and fire music video for “WAP” has been the talk of the internet since it was released on Friday. While most people have been focused on the message of empowerment and the temperature-raising visuals, there’s one aspect of the clip that many …

Photo: Jennifer Vinciguerra (Shutterstock) A survey of employees at Veterans Affairs has revealed that nearly 80 percent of them believe that racism is a serious and widespread problem within the government agency. The nationwide survey of 1,500 workers at the VA was conducted by the American Federation of Government Employees …

A few weeks ago, I went to a political rally in a farmyard. The Polish presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski was speaking; in the background, a golden wheat field shimmered in the late-afternoon sun. The audience was enthusiastic—the host, a local farmer, had spread news of the candidate’s visit only the …