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A Black business owner is picking up the pieces one year after a fake Facebook rumor attempted to end his business for good. TC Cuthbertson was the victim of a defamatory claim against him and his business on Facebook last June, The Bucks County Courier Times reports. The heightened racial …

Screenshot: Twitter/GQ Will Smith is opening up and sharing his truth in his most revealing interview to date. The longtime actor recently sat down with Pulitzer Prize winner and The Root 100 honoree Wesley Lowery for GQ, where he discussed, among many things, his forthcoming films King Richard and Emancipation …

In a now-viral tweet shared earlier this week, a Black associate product manager at Google said he was stopped by company security because someone didn’t believe he belonged there.  Angel Onuoha, a graduate of Harvard University and co-founder of Black-run hedge fund, BLK Capital Management, tweeted on Monday (September 30), “Riding …

Georgia and the U.S. in general has experienced a huge spike in the number of enrollments of Obamacare coverage during a special enrollment period this year. The Biden Administration opened a special signup period for the Affordable Care Act when he took office arguing the COVID-19 pandemic made it necessary. …

Photo: Sundry Photography (Shutterstock) Imagine you are a teenager applying for a job, and you end up getting arrested for trespassing before your resume is even considered. That’s what happened in the case of an unnamed Black 16-year-old in Minnesota. On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights determined that …

What may have been intended as a moment of nostalgia turned out to be one of the most memorable moments of the 74th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday (September 26). Jennifer Holliday performed her iconic song “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls, which first opened in …

On Monday, R. Kelly was found guilty on all nine counts in his sex trafficking and racketeering trial, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York announced. R. Kelly found guilty on ALL COUNTS — US Attorney EDNY (@EDNYnews) September 27, 2021 Kelly now faces more than …

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) So, I don’t look into white supremacy that often. I mean, I used to watch the NFL, and I accidentally saw this song back when MTV played videos, but I don’t often wade in the “not all white people” pond. So I must admit that …

Danielle Del Plato In 1947, Albert Einstein, writing in this magazine, proposed the creation of a single world government to protect humanity from the threat of the atomic bomb. His utopian idea did not take hold, quite obviously, but today, another visionary is building the simulacrum of a cosmocracy. Mark …

A Soldier’s Play took home the trophy for Best Revival of a Play Sunday (September 26) at the 74th Annual Tony Awards. According to The New York Times, in 1982, Charles Fuller became only the second African American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for A Soldier’s Play. It dramatizes …