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A TMZ Celebrity Tour bus driver was fired on Saturday (July 17) after he was recorded on video calling someone the N-Word, TMZ reported. The online tabloid news outlet said the driver worked for Exclusive Livery Service, which owns the bus that TMZ leases. No passengers were on the bus …

In Arkansas, a local rapper dropped a music video that expressed his fears of going outside and playing with his friends. Four-year-old Kashmania, whose real name is Kash Coullier, is not one’s typical recording artist. He is a legitimate rapper with a social following of more than 15,000 on Instagram, …

Photo: Cameron Spencer (Getty Images) Tennis phenom Coco Gauff announced Sunday that she is withdrawing from competition at the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19. Gauff, 17, broke the news in a brief statement posted on Twitter–where she also wished the rest of Team USA and her fellow Olympians …

Last summer, unsolicited home deliveries sent Americans into a panic. The writer Chris Heath has discovered an explanation that many, including the USDA, don’t believe. USDA Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts Last summer, an unexplained phenomenon gripped nightly newscasts and Facebook groups across …

John Lewis’ legacy is nothing short of legendary. From his work to expand voting rights to his activism for poor and working class people, the civil rights giant left this world a better place than he found it. Lewis is also leaving behind his last literary testament on the one-year …

0 Photo Courtesy of KTLA A California mother is devastated after her one-year-old son was killed by his father. According to KTLA, Ryanna Jones told the news outlet that Shane Flowers informed her that he hit their baby boy, Dee’Ago Alexander Jones after he tripped over a video game controller …

Image: BlurryMe (Shutterstock) A federal lawsuit has been filed against Albuquerque’s public school district, accusing the district of discriminating against a Black student due to her hair. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Saturday that the lawsuit was filed last month in New Mexico’s U.S. District Court, which has scheduled …

(Bill Greenblatt / UPI / Alamy) In Missouri, the reprieve was brief. Now the hospitals are full again—some fuller than they were last time. My colleague Ed Yong has a wrenching new report on the state of hospitals there, where unvaccinated communities are being pummeled by the Delta variant. The …

Gloria Richardson, the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside the Deep South and one of the nation’s leading female civil rights advocates, died Thursday (July 15) at age 99. Richardson’s granddaughter, Tya Young, said Richardson died in her sleep in New York City and had …

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.’s announcement of its 2021 honorary inductees on July 15 has some folks scratching their heads over one of its newest members. The 113-year-old first Black Greek-lettered organization for Black American women shared the news on its official Twitter account. “We are thrilled to welcome 8 …