Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) Mahershala Ali has been tapped to play Jack Johnson, the world’s first Black heavyweight champion, for an upcoming limited series on HBO. According to a report from Variety, the Oscar-winning actor will star in a retelling of Johnson’s life that focuses heavily on the challenges …

The big spectacle of Pride—the parade, the parties, and the other affiliated events—is always inspiring because the right to public pleasure is so hard-fought for queer people. But in recent years, maybe since the nationwide legalization of gay marriage, in 2015, triumphalism has outshone much sense of political urgency. Alternative …

NBA players who are choosing to play in the upcoming resumption of the 2019-2020 basketball season will be allowed to exchange the names on the backs of their jerseys with social justice messages.  Chris Paul, of the Oklahoma City Thunder, told ESPN’s website The Undefeated on Saturday (June 27)  that …

Wal-Mart store (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) In response to the current social climate, Walmart is taking the long-overdue step to cease sales of All Lives Matter merchandise. READ MORE: Hennessy launches 3M grant to help small businesses and nonprofits Monday, in a statement announcing the decision, a representative from …

August Alsina has seemingly confirmed that he was once in a relationship with Jada Pinkett-Smith … and her husband Will even gave him his blessing! Rumors that August and Jada were dating first cropped up back in 2016 when he was spotted on vacation in Hawaii with the Smith …

Share0 Image via @therealmaryjblige/Instagram Mary J. Blige’s stellar career in Hollywood includes a plethora of R&B classics and starring in the Academy Award-winning film Mudbound. Now, the Grammy-winning singer is expanding to the wine and spirits industry with a collection of wines just in time for summer. Sun Goddess Wines …

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” (L) clash with counter-protesters as they enter Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Richard Spencer, along with other neo-Nazis in the Charlottesville, Virginia lawsuit, Sines v. Kessler, is having …

A pair of Little Caesars employees were fired for preparing a pizza with a swastika made out of pepperoni and “accidentally” giving it to a customer. According to WJW-TV, Jason Laska stopped by a Little Caesars in Brook, Park Ohio (just outside of Cleveland) on Saturday (Jun. 27) to …

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) The level of headassery that’s endemic to Florida is truly astounding. Even in a situation designed to be a layup, they find a way to turn it into an airball. Take, for instance, a recently unveiled mural that whitewashed the faces of two black firefighters. NBC News …

Sessions’s view is telling because he is not merely a supporter of the president’s, but one of his clearest ideological antecedents, the first U.S. senator to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential run, then his first attorney general. Trump eventually expelled Sessions from the administration because of tension over Special Counsel Robert …