Oprah Winfrey is honoring the life of Breonna Taylor by putting her on the cover of the September issue of O, The Oprah Magazine—marking the first time in 20 years that Winfrey won’t grace the cover. “We can’t be silent. We have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry …

Photo: PhotosbyAndy (Shutterstock) It takes a staunch commitment to racist foolishness to celebrate the life of a Confederate general and Klan figurehead in 2020. To do so on the very same weekend, in the very same city that civil rights icon John Lewis was being honored? How much harder can …

Tina Knowles-Lawson is using her platform to encourage Black and Brown people to head to the polls with less than 100 days left before the 2020 presidential election.  Knowles-Lawson has partnered with African Pride, a Black hair-care brand and the And Still I Vote campaign to continue to raise awareness …

Zhang Yiming embodies what the United States wanted China to be. He is the founder and chief executive of a company, ByteDance, that owns a wildly popular social-media platform, TikTok. He is a serial entrepreneur, having built multiple apps and search engines. Zhang’s story is one not of a copycat …

Still pushing his 2020 presidential campaign forward, Kanye West has successfully filed paperwork to appear on state ballots in Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Illinois. With most states requiring political candidates to submit a petition that’s signed by a certain number of registered voters in that state to prove candidate …

The jokes came out between Barack Obama and his friend George Clooney during a virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden. During a 45-minute event on Tuesday (July 28) held on Zoom and at their own homes, the former president and Hollywood actor spent time pitching why Joe Biden was the best …

Terry Crews has been in the news cycle for some questionable tweets and then defending himself in interviews.  And now, the 51-year-old’s actions have earned him an impression from comedian Godfrey. On a July 24 episode of In Godfrey We Trust, his popular YouTube show, Godfrey jumped into imitating Crews, …

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Former presidential candidate and ardent Trump supporter Herman Cain has died after a battle with COVID-19. According to WSB-TV, Cain had been hospitalized for over a month in an Atlanta hospital after attending a Trump rally in which he was photographed without a mask. The …

Black actors and actresses are setting new records in the entertainment industry for their incredible work in television. Variety reports that after the Emmy nominees were revealed on Tuesday morning (July 28), 34.3 percent of those who received a nod were Black.  Among those receiving recognition was Sterling K. Brown, …

“When you combine the [classic sports] bubble with volatile times—think Berlin in 1936 or Mexico City in 1968—you sometimes get moments that defy the control of those staging the bubbles,” Dyreson said. “The tighter the NBA, Disney, and ABC/ESPN squeeze in an effort to be all things to all consumers, …