Photo: Ryan M. Kelly (AFP/Getty Images) For people who want so badly for black people to just forget about slavery, conservative white people sure seem bound and determined to hold on to the very monuments that immediately remind black folk of what our ancestors endured. Many of us were beside …

Red Table Talk is always at the forefront of conversations amongst Black women, and goes deeper than what’s in the headlines. In the Juneteenth episode of the popular Facebook Watch series, hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones and daughter Willow Smith, the dynamic women are joined by …

In early seasons, such retrograde dialogue sometimes made Insecure feel like a prompt for weekly Black Twitter debates on dating. The characters registered as symbols rather than fleshed-out people. Lawrence (played by Jay Ellis), Issa’s omnipresent ex, was less an interesting figure with hopes, dreams, and feelings, and more an …

After being charged with felony murder for shooting and killing Rayshard Brooks, former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe is receiving donations to cover his legal fees covered.  RELATED: Rayshard Brooks Shooting: Atlanta DA Announces Murder Charges Against Police Officers Thanks to the Georgia Law Enforcement Organization, nearly $200K have been …

Share0 Image via @dcpuddin/Instagram The protests around the death of George Floyd among numerous others in the last few weeks has sparked a new dialogue about race in America. One of those conversations is how racism affects black people in business and can affect their livelihood. A group of local …

Look At All This Privilege Photo: Shutterstock White people, on the whole, haven’t been doing too well this last month. If it’s not going full tilt Karen at black people for just existing, or having breakdowns over not getting a McMuffin, it’s going onto social media and saying some truly …

Tomorrow’s Juneteenth celebrations—which also come amid a national pandemic that has disproportionately harmed black Americans—seem likely to take on the more somber tone of recent years. As Vann noted in 2019: The tenor of Juneteenth has changed. Black Americans see more clearly just how deep white supremacy rests in …

Beverly Johnson wants more diversity in the fashion industry. The supermodel, who made history in 1974 as the first Black model to appear on the cover of Vogue, sat down with Good Morning America to express her expectations. “There is no diversity in— the upper echelon. None —like at all,” Beverly …

Exactly one week after Robert Fuller’s body was found hanging from a tree in a park in Southern California, his brother was killed in a shootout with Los Angeles police. Terron Jammal Boone, Fuller’s half-brother, was shot dead by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday afternoon (Jun. 17) in …

Share0 PepsiCo Inc., one of the world’s largest beverage and food companies, plans to invest more than $400 million during the next five years to uplift Black communities across America. The commitment is part of many initiatives by PepsiCo that includes efforts to battle racial inequality and create opportunities for …