Share0 (Image via @RehanStaton /Twitter) Rehan Staton, a 24-year-old former sanitation worker, recently celebrated his acceptance to the prestigious Harvard School of Law. This accomplishment represents a huge milestone in his education journey. He faced difficulties since high school, including unsupportive teachers and fractured family issues, and his dreams of …

Prince William County Votes to Rename Stonewall Jackson High School to Unity Reed High School and Stonewall Middle School to Unity Braxton Middle School officially on July 1, 2020. Photo: mpi34/MediaPunch /IPX (AP) White people want to have it both ways. They want so badly for Black people to understand …

Following news that she was considering a role to play a transgender man in an upcoming film, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry is now changing her position.  In an Instagram Live interview with hairstylist Christin Brown on Friday (July 3), Berry expressed that she recently had an opportunity to discuss the …

Author Tanisha C. Ford (Photo: Darcy Rogers) Culture critic and author of “Dressed in Dreams,” Tanisha C. Ford, has inked a deal with Sony Pictures Television, in collaboration with Gabrielle Union‘s and Freida Pinto’s production companies. The TV production will be the first project under Union’s first-look deal at Sony …

Democratic leaders, however, were much warier than Mnuchin, and during the early stages of pandemic-relief planning argued for means testing, making sure that only the neediest Americans received money. This may well have been good politics, because it played defense against caricatures of tax-and-spend liberalism and appealed to widespread public …

Vanesssa Bryant continues to celebrate her marriage with Kobe Bryant and every once in a while she opens up about how the NBA icon showed his love to her.   On her Instagram stories, Vanessa reveals Bryant once gifted her an original dress that Sarah Jessice Parker wore in the series …

Michaela Coel attends SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations: “Black Earth Rising” at The Robin Williams Center on January 22, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images) I May Destroy You is now one of HBO’s most acclaimed current series and its creator, London-born Michaela Coel is one of the …

In just a few years, Colin Kaepernick went from NFL quarterback whose decision to take a knee left him without a team to one of the faces of global change — and ESPN Films, Disney and the football player’s media company plan to document it. Kaepernick’s transformation from a member …

Courtesy Kezia Williams Supporting Black-owned businesses is sometimes easier said than done. Calls to buy Black echo across social media after a company or brand does something problematic. For example, Spike Lee called for a boycott of luxury brands, such as Gucci and Prada, following a blackface scandal. As these …

Growing up in Detroit, Dennis McKinley thought everyone ate their hot dogs “Coney Island” style—on a steamed bun and topped with chili sauce, chopped raw onion, and a squiggle of yellow mustard. After graduating from college and starting to travel, he realized that wasn’t the case and was intrigued to …