Breaking News

Comedian and actor Damon Wayans announced his support for Dave Chappelle, whose latest Netflix comedy special is stirring up conversations around transphobia.  Since the release of Chappelle’s “The Closer” on Oct. 5, concerns of discrimination against the transgender community have been raised amongst some viewers.  Chappelle has also garnered support …

Photo: Michael Reaves (Getty Images) Looking to follow in his father’s NBA footsteps, Zaire Wade, son of three-time NBA champion Dwayne Wade, is taking his talents to the pros. Per Shams Charania of The Athletic, the 19-year-old will forgo college scholarship offers and instead sign with the Salt Lake City …

We know more than ever about how to use boosters, but still very little about when to use them. Leon Neal / Getty ; The Atlantic In this week’s installment of the booster chronicles, the plot is picking up. An advisory committee to the FDA began a two-day meeting today …

When Jeremy accuses Mr. Brown of knowingly selling him a malfunctioning car, Anastasia urges a dejected Reginald to come out of retirement for a day to preside over their legal dispute. Source link

School board members in Virginia Beach are attempting to ban the literary works of the late great novelist Toni Morrison. School board members Victoria Manning and Laura Hughes have banned together to have four books removed from curriculums due to the “pornographic nature” found in the reading, The Daily Beast …

Tziarra King, left, Ifeoma Onumonu, and Imani Dorsey of the Black Women’s Players Collective.Photo: Adidas When the National Women’s Soccer League finally returned to play last summer in the aftermath of the officer-related murder of George Floyd, dozens of players used the league’s Challenge Cup tournament as a platform to …

You know there’s drama in research circles—or at least what qualifies as drama in research circles—when someone writes an open letter. Earlier this year, that someone was Philip Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland at College Park. His request: that Pew Research Center, the nonpartisan “fact tank,” “do …

On Tuesday (Oct. 12), Tyga turned himself into Los Angeles police on suspicion of felony domestic violence. The LAPD said in a statement, “Hollywood Div booked Michael Stevenson for felony domestic violence (273.5 A PC). The incident occurred on 10/12/21 in Hollywood.” Tyga’s real name is Michael Stevenson. No other …

What do you buy a woman who already has everything? Well, if you’re a famous hip-hop artist who is married to an even more successful rapper, you buy her a mansion in another country! Offset, who is one-third of the Atlanta hip-hop group, Migos, recently purchased a property in the …

Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (Getty Images) Black people may have been undercounted in the 2020 census at a significantly higher rate than usual, according to two new analyses, reports the Washington Post. Undercounting is significant because it could affect representation in Washington, D.C., and funding in Black communities over the …