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Photo: nadia_if (Shutterstock) A Danvers, Massachusetts-based farm has apologized to a Black couple after staffers called the police on them for allegedly stealing six apples. According to the Associated Press, Manikka Bowman and Jeff Myers detailed their experience at Connors Farm in a public blog post. The couple wrote that …
Read More »How Hollywood Sold Out to China
Chloé Zhao, the director of Nomadland, is new Hollywood royalty. In April, she made history as the first woman of color to win Best Director at the Oscars. In November, her big-budget Marvel movie, Eternals, will arrive in theaters. She commands so much admiration from the industry right now that …
Read More »New York Woman’s Remains From 9/11 Identified 20 Years Later
Two victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center have been identified. According to local station News 12, Dorothy Morgan of Hempstead, N.Y., and a man not currently being named were identified via DNA recovered between 2001 and 2006. Morgan, a 47-year-old grandmother, becomes the 1,646th …
Read More »Don’t Play With His Mama: Ice Cube Almost Murked A Man For Scamming Her Out of $20
Former NWA member and rapper Ice Cube revealed that he almost punched a man’s clock for scamming his mother of $20. Cube, born O’Shea Jackson, disclosed the sordid details on In Depth With Graham Bensinger. “Somebody I knew and went to school with — who we knew was heavy on …
Read More »A Black Representative for Queen Elizabeth II Says the Royal Family Supports Black Lives Matter
FILE – In this Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 file photo, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II visits the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, England. Photo: Ben Stansall (AP) In the royal family’s latest attempt to show to the world that they aren’t racist, a senior representative told Britain’s …
Read More »‘I Was Responsible for Those People’
Updated at 11:30 a.m. on September 10, 2021. On the evening of September 4, 2021, one week before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Glenn Vogt stood at the footprint of the North Tower and gazed at the names stamped in bronze. The sun was diving below the buildings across the …
Read More »R. Kelly Accuser Says She Was Drugged, Starved Prior To Rape
A woman reportedly testified that R. Kelly locked her up without food or water for at least two days and then drugged her before he sexually assaulted her. The New York Post reports that the accuser was interning at a Utah radio station in 2003 when the incident occured and …
Read More »Teyana Taylor’s Five-Year-Old Daughter, Junie, Turns New York Fashion Week Out
New York Fashion Week served a dose of Black girl magic on Thursday. Earlier this year, the Instagram-famous clothing brand Pretty Little Thing released a collaboration with Teyana Taylor. The new gear hit the runway for this year’s highly-anticipated fashion week. Teyana’s daughter, Junie, stole the show and the audience’s …
Read More »'I Knew If He Got Me on the Floor, I Would Be Dead': Black Woman Describes Physical Altercation with Chicago Cop
Screenshot: ABC News/Good Morning America Weeks after a Chicago police officer was captured on cellphone video aggressively grabbing a Black woman walking her dog along the lakefront, the woman spoke publicly about the altercation for the first time in an interview with Good Morning America. Attorneys for Nikkita Brown have …
Read More »America Did Al-Qaeda’s Work for It
Alex Majoli / Magnum The United States today does not have so much as an embassy in Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Syria, or Yemen. It demonstrably has little influence over nominal allies such as Pakistan, which has been aiding the Taliban for decades, and Saudi Arabia, which has prolonged the conflict …
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