Image: Adrienne Raquel for GQ “Sometimes you just got to remind people that you’re magical and everything about you down to your vagina and to your toes is magical,” says Megan Thee Stallion, who has crafted her own brand of Black girl magic in recent years, casting her spell over …
Read More »Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town. “They gave you two choices,” he said. “‘If you open the gates, we’ll just kill you quickly and take your women and enslave your children, but we won’t …
Read More »Eve Recalls Being Trolled For Marrying White Man
Eve opened up about the harsh trolling she received for her interracial marriage with her husband, Maximillion Cooper. “In the beginning it was very hard because obviously, I come from Hip-Hop, there was no other person at that time especially from that world dating outside the race, outside of Black …
Read More »Get Comprehensive Online Security with this VPN and Premium Password Manager for $99
It’s scary how easy it is for hackers to pry into your personal information. Something as innocent as connecting to a public Wi-Fi network opens the doors to countless security threats that can result in your identity being stolen. No free network, whether it’s at an airport, a public library, …
Read More »'Birthday Sex' Singer Jeremih Hospitalized in ICU With COVID-19
Photo: Leon Bennett (Getty Images) Despite how much we may want it to be over, COVID-19 is not through with us. The latest indication of this is the saddening news that Jeremih, the 33-year-old singer-songwriter from Chicago who broke onto music the scene in 2009 with his massively successful track …
Read More »‘No One Is Listening to Us’
Nurses and doctors are also falling sick themselves. “The winter is traditionally a very stressful time in health care, and everyone gets taken down at some point,” says Saskia Popescu, an infection preventionist at George Mason University, who is based in Arizona. The third COVID-19 surge has intensified this seasonal …
Read More »Report: Jeremih Hospitalized With COVID-19
Jeremih is reportedly fighting for his life against the coronavirus. According to TMZ, sources close to the R&B singer say he’s being treated at a hospital for COVID-19. While it’s unclear how long he’s been admitted or when he got the virus, the source says Jeremih’s condition is getting progressively …
Read More »Student Who Took 21 AP Courses Becomes the First Black Male Valedictorian at His High School
Rawlin Lee Tate Jr., an 18-year old teen from Georgia, has made history as the first Black male valedictorian in his high school. More than that, he has secured $1.3 million in college scholarships. In a now-viral tweet, Tate shared his list of academic accomplishments which included having a 4.7 …
Read More »Newly Released Video Footage Shows Black Veteran Died After Police Hooded Him and Left Him in a Florida Jail Cell
Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) The injustices that led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement and this year drove hundreds of people to march in pain and protest against the police’s inhumane treatment of Black Americans, are littered across the this country. The latest development in the story of …
Read More »Whitewashing the Great Depression
In one sense, the lack of diversity in classic FSA photographs comes as little surprise: The country was roughly 90 percent white during the Depression, and the FSA represented Black people in proportion to their share of the population. Yet overall representation is surely only part of the story, given …
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