Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP (Getty Images) You can take Buttigieg out of South Bend, but you can’t take South Bend’s Black Lives Matter chapter out of Buttigieg’s campaign trail. According to the Los Angeles Times, when Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg visited a homeless shelter …
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Rhule’s lucrative contract has reset the market for coaches, but it’s also set unattainable expectations for black coaches. For one thing, a black coach is unlikely to be in Rhule’s position, because the underrepresentation problem is just as bad at the college level. Only 12 of the 128 Football Bowl …
Read More »Loni Love Responds To Backlash For Saying Black Men Cheat
Loni Love got a heap of backlash for saying on The Real, “I do think that a lot of Black men, they really don’t know how to have true, faithful relationships. They think because they have money, they have power, that they can treat women any kind of way.” She …
Read More »15 Memorable Moments from the Women of Power Summit
Imagine walking into a room of leading women and being embraced by hundreds of smiles and hugs. The Women of Power Summit is a one-of-a-kind experience. The amount of intentionality woven into every detail of the event is a standard that was set 15 years ago by the late and …
Read More »Olympic Committee Bans Athletes From Making Political Protests During 2020 Games
Photo: Richard Heathcote (Getty Images) Any Olympic athlete thinking of taking a knee or raising a fist in Tokyo during the 2020 Olympic Games may have to think twice. NBC News reports that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released new guidelines on Thursday that specify what protests will not be …
Read More »The 2020 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
For a candidate who never made it out of the low single digits, Marianne Williamson’s campaign still managed to go through all the cycles afforded to a major candidate: Media fascination, backlash, backlash to the backlash, backlash to the backlash to the backlash, and finally exit, on Friday. Williamson, a …
Read More »Draya Michelle Became A National Twitter Trending Topic
See How Yusef Williams Became Rihanna’s Hairstylist For A Decade For the past 10 years, Yusef has been dictating all of the beauty trends we emulate via his most famous client, none other than Rihanna. He started out his career as a performer, but he ended up behind the scenes. …
Read More »Parents to File $12 Million Lawsuit Against Long Island School District After Teacher Compared Black Students to Apes
A photo of four African American teenagers taken at the Bronx Zoo in New York City may cost a school district in Suffolk County, New York, $12 million. In the photo, young black men ages 16 to 18 are standing in a single-file line while holding the back of the …
Read More »Awards Seasoned Continues: Lil Rel Howery to Host the 2020 AAFCA Awards
Lil Rel Howery attends HBO’s Lil Rel Comedy Special Screening, Panel and Reception on November 21, 2019, in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Presley Ann (Getty Images for HBO) I’ll say this again (and forever): Why solely take a seat at a table full of unseasoned awards when you have black-ass awards …
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What We’re Reading The disease of living too fast “Neurasthenia … took [the] age-old problems of happiness and comfort and medicalized them.” 📚 Neurasthenic Nation, by David Schuster 📚 American Nervousness, 1903, by Tom Lutz 📚 Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked, by S. Weir Mitchell Why Mohsin …
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