Black America Breaking News for the African American Community
Post-pandemic, going to the movies just doesn’t carry the same thrill, says this essay’s author.Photo: Syda Productions (Shutterstock) Being the James Bond enthusiast that I am, I recently went to the movies to see No Time To Die (Daniel Craig is still the man, I might add). This wasn’t the …
Read More »Do You Even Lift, Embryo?
Some cuckoos are born assassins. Within a day or two of hatching, the infant birds—still blind, pink, and featherless—will start to evict the other residents of their nest, hurling them over the edge and to their death. Technically, the evictions they carry out are from living quarters that aren’t even …
Read More »OPINION: Gen. Colin Powell’s Many Achievements Outweigh Any
If you were born after say, 1995 and are not particularly keen on 20th century U.S. history, Gen. Colin Powell might be something of a floating question mark to you – a name that dominated headlines at the beginning of your week but seems a touch unfamiliar. You know you’ve …
Read More »Asian Former Mount Holyoke Professor Pleads Guilty to Torturing Black Colleague With a Fire Poker
Former Mount Holyoke Professor Rie Hachiyanagi has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for the 2019 attack of her work colleague Lauret Savoy. On Wednesday, Hachiyanagi was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in Massachusetts state prison for torturing Savoy for hours due to her co-worker not …
Read More »Prince to Be Considered for Congressional Gold Medal
Prince performs on October 11, 2009 at the Grand Palais in Paris.Photo: BERTRAND GUAY/AFP (Getty Images) On Monday, Minnesota’s Congressional delegation introduced a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Purple One himself, the artist forever known as Prince. According to the AP, the award is one …
Read More »Why I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’
Getty Who can get pregnant? It sounds like a trick question. For centuries, English speakers have talked about “pregnant women” without a second thought, but a vocal and growing movement wants to replace that phrase with the more inclusive pregnant people. And because the United States hasn’t yet found an …
Read More »Kim Kardashian Buys Hidden Hills Home From Kanye
Kim Kardashian has decided to keep her home in Hidden Hills, California, while the divorce with her husband Kanye West is still ongoing. According to legal documents filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 12, the reality tv star has acquired the estranged couple’s family home, PEOPLE reports. …
Read More »Foot Locker Makes $200 Million Pledge to Empower the Black Community
The sneaker industry has grown into a $70 billion business that has benefitted greatly from big-dollar contributions from Black consumers. Much of that disbursement came last year amid COVID-19 and racial inequalities that financially hurt much of the Black community and curtailed spending capability for many of those individuals. To …
Read More »Yes, Halloween Is This Sunday—But It's Time to Start Your Holiday Shopping Now
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) Fam, this is not a drill: Unless you and your nearest and dearest have decided to forego gift-giving during this swiftly approaching holiday season, you should get started shopping—now. No, not because of any tired tropes about our own, culturally specific timetable, but because, as noted by …
Read More »Photos Are Too Flattering Now
It’s rare to see a bad photo today. If, by chance, a bad photo is taken and cannot be filtered, edited, or otherwise enhanced into something visually acceptable, it is swiftly deleted. Why hold on to anything less than perfect? Why, when with a cost-free click you can disappear it …
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