56 years after Malcolm X’s death, lawyers are revealing what they called new evidence of a conspiracy perpetrated by the NYPD and the FBI to assassinate the Civil Rights leader in Harlem. According to New York’s ABC 7, Ray Wood, who was an undercover police officer at the time, wrote …
Read More »Spacecraft Named in Honor of Black Woman ‘Hidden Figures’ Mathematician
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is one of the nation’s hidden figures. She made history as one of the first Black women to work as a NASA scientist. In 1961, Johnson calculations put the first U.S. astronaut in space, Alan B. Shepard. For over 30 years, she used her math capabilities …
Read More »From No Power to Unaffordable Power: Texas Households Receive Electric Bills as High as $10,000 Due to Snowstorm
An aerial view from a drone shows electrical power lines running through a neighborhood on February 19, 2021 in Austin, Texas. Amid days of nationwide frigid winter storms in which 58 people died, more than 4 million Texans were without power for much of the past week, with about 13 …
Read More »Hiking Is an Ideal Structure for Friendship
A couple years after that, Will joined the group. Will Smith: Jim invited me to join because he knew that I did a lot of hiking and outdoor things as well. Read: The nature cure Rodney Follin: He’s been with us for 15 or more of the 25 years that …
Read More »How Tokyo Vanity Capitalized on "That's My Best Friend"
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Read More »First Black Miss Maine is Using Her Crown to Encourage More People to Buy Black
0 (Image Credit: Instagram/missamericame) Carolyn Brady made history as the first black woman to win the title of Miss Maine. Now, the talented violinist is using her platform to support Black businesses. “I think if we have the opportunity to choose where we put our dollar and we can invest …
Read More »Newly Released Video Shows Altercation Between California Deputies and Fatally Shot Homeless Black Man Stopped for Jaywalking
Photo: OFC Pictures (Shutterstock) Time and time again, police officers across America prove that they are utterly useless when it comes to dealing with conflicts involving the most vulnerable among us. It doesn’t have to be all cops; there have been enough instances where officers arrived on scenes where no …
Read More »Inside the Strange World of the Police
Photographs by Joseph Rodríguez “Police work is doing what people in the city want done,” Willie Williams, the Los Angeles Police Department chief, told me in 1994. Williams, the agency’s first Black chief, had been brought in from Philadelphia to make changes after LAPD officers beat Rodney King in 1991, …
Read More »'The Real' Hosts Loni Love And Garcelle Beauvais Get Heated
Things got unexpectedly heated during a recent segment on The Real between co-hosts Loni Love and Garcelle Beauvais, and all over a FaceTime call. Beauvais and Love debated proper FaceTime etiquette when Beauvais brought up that Love had recently video called her to check in when she was apparently in …
Read More »Video Footage of Homeless Man Being Shot To Death By Deputies In San Clemente
On Wednesday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) released a video of the incident involving the shooting death of a Black homeless man in San Clemente. According to KTLA, a deputy shot and killed Kurt Andras Reinhold after reportedly stopping the 42-year-old man for jaywalking. The OCSD has since been …
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