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A Massachusetts school committee has launched an investigation into the city’s mayor after she reportedly made a racist comment to a high school student during a civics class. According to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Mayor Nicole LaChapelle’s insensitive comments were revealed to the Easthampton school committee by a science teacher …

American baseball player Jackie Robinson, second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, steps up to bat with his back to the camera during a game at a packed stadium.Photo: Hulton Archive (Getty Images) The celebration of Jackie Robinson continues! Today marks the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson becoming the first African …

Lee Daniels will co-write, executive produce, and direct the first two episodes of the biographical series about legendary comedian, actor, dancer, and singer Sammy Davis Jr. for Hulu starring Elijah Kelley as Davis, according to Variety. Kelley has worked with Daniels before for his successful feature The Butler and on his Fox …

Demonstrators listen to speeches at a rally at Jefferson Square Park in downtown Louisville, Ky., Friday, March 4, 2022. A day earlier, a jury cleared former Louisville police Officer Brett Hankison of charges that he endangered neighbors when he fired shots into an apartment during the 2020 drug raid that …

A local automotive repair shop is attempting to aid a family in Michigan that suffered the devastating loss of a child and the entirety of their belongings in a house fire last month. Auto DR, a repair shop in Ira Township, gifted Ladarrell Brown and Asia Summers’ family a minivan …

Photo: Real Life Design (Shutterstock) Nineties era fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger is set to launch a new podcast on April 20th, highlighting the legacies and contributory threads Black people have woven into the greater fabric of American style and culture. “The Invisible Seam: Unsung Stories of Black Culture and Fashion” …

Black and Brown communities know that it is challenging to find products that cater to their respective culture and needs. For example, the simple necessity of finding an adhesive bandage to cover a scrape or cut, most traditional bandages are flesh-colored but only accommodate the white population.  However, the lack …

Photo: Burlingham (Shutterstock) Following the Black Lives Matter movement and the calls for racial justice in the States, one UK teacher is aiming to decolonize her classroom lessons by infusing Black joy into the curriculum. Bristol, England based Tanisha Hicks-Beresford is a part of a cohort of teachers working to …

Disclosure: This post involves mention of murder, police brutality.   In body cam footage released April 7, Tracy Gaeta, 54, is fatally shot after a Stockton, California, K-9 unit fires more than 30 bullets into her car on Feb. 22, reports NBC News.  Family attorneys are alleging excessive force by …

Photo: Maverick Pictures (Shutterstock) Not all presidential promises are kept, but VP Kamala Harris is proving to keep one in particular at the forefront of her White House initiatives. In December of last year, Harris hosted the very first Maternal Health Day of Action. It was then that she issued …