Black America Breaking News for the African American Community
Photo: Associated Press (AP) On Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a new policy: The agency will no longer detain and deport victims of crimes. According to CNN, the Biden administration has been working to right Trump’s wrongs when it comes to the undocumented population, focusing on extending some pretty …
Read More »<em>Reservation Dogs </em>Is as Fresh as It Gets
FX’s comedy, about four Native teens coming of age in Oklahoma, draws on familiar storytelling beats but feels completely new. Shane Brown / FX Networks / Hulu Reservation Dogs wears its pop-culture influences proudly, and not just in its title. FX’s new comedy series abounds with cinephilic homages: A paintball …
Read More »Porsha Williams Announces Major Career Change
After eight years, Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams is leaving chat show Dish Nation. The 40-year-old wrote on Instagram, “Goodbyes are never easy, and this one is especially hard. For the past eight years, I’ve worked on one of the most fun, collaborative, exciting, and best produced shows …
Read More »California McDonald’s Franchise Settles Workers COVID-19 Lawsuit As Cases Continue to Rise Nationwide
Reuters – A McDonald’s Corp franchise in Oakland, California, has agreed to take steps to protect workers from COVID-19 to settle a lawsuit claiming managers gave employees dog diapers and coffee filters to use as face masks. The franchise said in the settlement announced on Thursday that it would provide …
Read More »PageTurners: These Authors Are Taking You Back to School
In the Country of Others, The Republic of False Truths, RatchetdemicsImage: Penguin Books, Knopf, Beacon Press You know, if I had someone teaching me Ratchetdemics in middle and high school, I might have paid a bit more attention. Honestly, if any of these authors had released books like the ones …
Read More »A Little Laugh Goes a Long Way
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers on his bus. If you laughed at that joke, it is …
Read More »Two Hip-Hop Artists Tied To Wu-Tang Clan Killed In Shooting
Two members of a Hip Hop group affiliated with Wu-Tang Clan were reportedly shot and killed in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday (August 10). Relatives identified the two rap artists killed as 12 O’Clock and Murdock of the Brooklyn Zu. According to Oregon Live, the Portland police identified the two men …
Read More »Pride Flags Keep Disappearing At Virginia Tech’s Wesley Center And One Was Replaced With A Confederate Flag
0 Pride flagas are being stolen from Virginia Tech’s campus. (Image: Twitter/@NBC News) A rainbow Pride flag was stolen from the Wesley Religious Center on the campus of Virginia Tech University for the third time in two week, but this time it was replaced with two Confederate flags. John Gresham, …
Read More »Georgia Basketball Coaches Charged With Murder and Cruelty to Children in Black Student Athlete’s Death
Photo: Associated Press (AP) Two high school basketball coaches have been indicted by a grand jury in the 2019 heatstroke death of a Georgia teen. Last month, Larosa Maria Walker-Asekere and Dwight Broom Palmer were charged with second-degree murder, second-degree cruelty to children, involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct after 16-year-old …
Read More »Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics
Laura Peretti This article was published online on August 10, 2021. In her first two novels, Conversations With Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018), the young Irish writer Sally Rooney resurrected the depressive, evacuated style that Ernest Hemingway made his signature. “The hills across the valley of the Ebro were …
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