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The Dallas Wings have reportedly hired Vickie Johnson to be their next head coach, according to The Athletic. With her new position, Johnson is the only Black woman currently holding a head coach position in the WNBA, which is made up of nearly 70 percent Black players. The Wings fired …

The House of Representatives approved legislation Friday decriminalizing marijuana and attempting to “address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs.” The vote in the Democratic-led chamber marks the first time in U.S. history a chamber of Congress has voted on federal decriminalization, although the bill has almost no …

Photo: zef art (Shutterstock) Oh, look, yet another thing that disproportionately affects Black people. A new study shows that Black people in Louisville, Ky., were overwhelmingly the subjects of no-knock warrants issued over the last two years. According to a report from the Courier Journal, the Louisville Metro Police received …

“Well-behaved women seldom make history,” a phrase coined by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in 1976, has since become a feminist rallying cry. One of the spheres in which women have been “misbehaving”—and exploring the different facets and effects of their behavior—is literature. The eminent left-wing poet turned public figure …

Noah Cyrus, Miley Cyrus’ younger sister, is apologizing for a racist remark she directed toward Candace Owens following the conservative personality’s comments about Harry Styles. Styles covered Vogue last month wearing a dress, which Owens reacted to with a tweet that read, “Bring back manly men.” Cyrus then went to …

Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who left the state of Illinois with a weapon, under the guise of going to protect stores in the midst of the Kenosha, Wis., riots earlier this summer and ended up killing two men and wounding a third, will have to stand trial according to NBC …

Photo: Brendan Smialowski (Getty Images) I’m not the kind of person who shares conspiracy theories. But last night, as I was searching Fo’Chan (It’s like Black Twitter, but for 4Chan) for a leatherbound copy of The Willie Lynch Letter, I happened to run across a few articles on Donald Trump …

The current hospitalizations metric doesn’t distinguish between newly admitted COVID-19 patients and those who have been in the hospital for days or weeks already, so we looked at the new admissions data available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to see if it shed any light on …

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Proctor & Gamble (P&G) is helping bring more diversity to the STEM field. The company unveiled their new scholarship aimed at increasing the number of Black women professionals within the field. The company is teaming up with CVS along with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) under their Royal Oils …