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Tessica Brown, perhaps better known as Gorilla Glue Girl, and her attorney Jeffrey R. Klein want folks to stop using her voice in a viral remix song on social media platforms. According to TMZ, they sent cease and desist letters about the song called “Bad Idea,” which has appeared on …

Learning about Crop Swap LA offers a crash course in urban farming, but with a twist. Founded by Jamiah Hargins, Crop Swap LA believes that 80% of our food sales should be derived within the zip codes where foods are grown, according to the social enterprise which grows foods in …

In this 1921 image provided by the Library of Congress, smoke billows over Tulsa, Okla.Photo: Alvin C. Krupnick Co./Library of Congress (AP) The first time most (white) Americans likely heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre was when HBO’s Watchmen opened its first episode—aired on October 20, 2019—with the devastating reenactment …

Read: In defense of Los Angeles To call L.A. a city doesn’t account for its game of thrones, the ways that county supervisors, city-council members, and eccentric billionaires tug at power. Metropolis doesn’t consider our countryside and endless townships. The idea that L.A. County is a collection of villages and …

Actor Blair Underwood announced Sunday (May 30) on social media that he and his wife, Desiree DaCosta, are getting divorced after 27 years of marriage. “It has truly been a beautiful journey,” Underwood said. RELATED: Blair Underwood Reveals He Almost Turned Down Being In The Classic ‘Set It Off’ “We …

“None of this is possible without the fans, so thank you to all the fans,” Blige said during Friday’s induction ceremony. The Apollo Theater, an iconic venue in New York City, has been a place for talented Black artists and performers to express themselves since the 1930s. In 2010, the …

Nicole Poole FranklinPhoto: Polk County Jail Nicole Poole Franklin, the white supremacist from Des Moines, Iowa, who on Dec. 9, 2019, hit a Black 12-year-old boy with her SUV and, on the same day, ran over a 14-year-old girl and admitted she did it because she thought the girl “was …

In Detroit, a woman received a fine – all for speaking too loudly outdoors on her cellphone. Diamond Robinson says she was approached by one of her neighbors while walking up and down a road she lives near in Eastpointe, Michigan, and asked if she could “talk lower” or get …

Children pose for a photo in front of a mural marking Black Wall Street, also called the Greenwood Distric, June 18, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Black Wall Street Massacre happened in 1921 and was one of the worst race riots in the history of the United States where more …

Remember & Rise, a centennial memorial event remembering the 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street massacre, has been cancelled, reports say. According to Deadline, the commission behind the star-studded occasion cited “unexpected circumstances with entertainers and speakers” as the reason for the cancellation. John Legend was scheduled to headline the event, …