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Screenshot: WFLA 8 Over the weekend, a group of people who likely think “racial profiling” refers to white people using Black emojis on their social media posts painted a “Back the Blue” mural on a street outside the Tampa Police Department headquarters. At least I think it reads “Back the …

Read: Brexit and Britain’s Northern Ireland déjà vu Fierce criticism has been reserved for leaders in Dublin, London, and Belfast, whether Ireland’s former leader Leo Varadkar for his apparent naïveté, Theresa May or Boris Johnson for playing with the fire of Brexit, or the DUP’s Arlene Foster and Sinn Fein’s …

Grey Skye Evans sure makes it look easy. The 6-year-old social media phenomenon is getting a lot of love on Instagram for her performance of a bit of choreography from Beyoncé‘s recently-released Black Is King.   Grey is a social media influencer who’s doing quite well. She’s barely out of …

Share0 Image via Dominic Edwards Vegan food and plant-based diets continue to gain traction within the U.S. as Americans move to become more and more health-conscious. As more people want to try plant-based substitutes to change their eating habits, one woman became inspired by her journey to lose weight and …

Photo: Facebook On Sunday, Michigan Republican State Senator Tom Barrett learned that life comes at you fast. See, Barrett is a bit of a COVID-19 denier. He even sponsored a bill to limit Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers, which included making masks mandatory. And then Sunday evening, Barrett learned …

Read: The strange pleasure of planning a post-pandemic vacation Similarly, while I enjoy sampling new cuisines abroad, I’m lost in my own kitchen. I never cooked until this year—literally never made pasta, never used olive oil, never cared that there are different kinds of potatoes. Now, like someone experiencing the …

Fans and friends of Frank Ocean took to social media to send their condolences for the reported death of the singer’s 18-year-old brother Ryan Breaux. Breaux is believed to be one of the two people who died in a single-vehicle collision at about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday (August 2) in …

Small businesses—including Black-owned firms—in New Jersey hit hard by COVID-19 will get $6 million in new grants to pay rent. The New Jersey Redevelopment Authority Small Business Lease Emergency Assistance Grant Program will allow small businesses in 64 eligible municipalities to apply for grants of up to $10,000 to cover …

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) A 15-year-old Black girl who was being detained in a juvenile facility in Detroit for failing to complete online schoolwork has been granted release by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The teenage girl in question, referred to as Grace to protect her privacy, had been held in …

On the night of August 31, 2019, police officers rushed into a Hong Kong subway station, swinging their batons and chasing suspected anti-government protesters into the narrow carriageways of a parked train as an emergency warning blared overhead. Like many pivotal moments of the city’s protest movement, the scenes were …