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The Fairfax County School Board has reportedly voted to rename Fairfax, Virginia’s Robert E. Lee High School to honor the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis. According to an announcement on Thursday (July 23), the change will go into effect for the 2020-21 school year. Board members in the …

Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Singer and performer Ciara, who has been rocking her pregnancy with signature gorgeousness despite going through it in a pandemic, has given birth to her third child. Ciara and her NFL quarterback husband Russell Wilson announced the good news on their social media channels on …

Read: What happened when the Sex Pistols threw a Christmas party An aspect of that knowledge, of course, was Blackness: being Black—flamboyantly, psychedelically Black—in an America that, through the madly flexing prism of the ’60s, was only beginning to experience itself. The white rebel rock bands, as outré as they …

On July 23, the Major League Baseball season opener started with an incredible moment, when players, managers and coaches on the Giants and Dodgers teams kneeled together in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement before the national anthem. However, one player refused to take a knee. San Francisco Giants …

Share0 Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James speak on stage at the ESPY Awards On the heels of the protests over racial injustice and police brutality, many public figures and corporations have been pressured by the general public to speak out and use their platforms to advance …

Photo: Andrew Harnik-Pool (Getty Images) Y’all, I’m pretty sure Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is a white supremacist. For legal purposes, I’m not outright saying he is. All I’m suggesting is that the dude who wrote a whole op-ed calling for military intervention to stomp out protests against systemic racism, compared …

Memoirs from those who have left political life, however, can offer more honesty. Hillary Clinton’s What Happened analyzes the failings in press coverage of her presidential run, and also takes responsibility for her role in Trump’s victory. Barney Frank’s memoir gets even more personal, chronicling the challenges he faced as …

Victoria makes plans for Gayle and Jason, Donald tries to prevent a dangerous discovery, and Hunter’s latest staffing decision catches the White House staff by surprise. Source link

Michelle Obama is kicking off her new podcast with an intimate conversation with former President Barak Obama. Spotify and the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground Productions announced Friday that the first Black Commander-in-Chief will be the first featured guest on The Michelle Obama Podcast. According to a press release, the couple …

Photo: Ken Wolter (Shutterstock) Marking the first major change to its curriculum in over four decades, California State University will now require students to take classes on ethnic studies or social justice in order to graduate. ABC News reports, the school’s Board of Trustees approved the measure on Wednesday. With …