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Safety has always warmed the suburban soul. The American dream is sometimes equated with property ownership and the nuclear families such properties house—but really, they are just hulls for a more fundamental suburban aspiration: individualism, which the suburban home demarcates and then protects. “The American dream was Every man gets …

One week after he delivered a powerful eulogy during George Floyd’s funeral, Rev. Al Sharpton is furthering his message of action and is demanding Donald Trump to no longer dodge the issue of systemic racial inequality in America. The civil rights leader and founder and President of the National Action …

Photo: Eric Baradat (Getty Images) Protestors in the nation’s capital ended Juneteenth on an appropriate note yesterday by toppling the statue of a Confederate general. A statue of Albert Pike—a senior officer in the Confederate army—erected near Judiciary Square in Washington D.C. in 1901 was the only outdoor memorial to …

We don’t know yet exactly what Trump scandal is sought to be concealed by the dismissal of Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. In his memoir, John Bolton claims that Trump promised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that he would halt a Berman investigation of …

The #SayHerName movement spotlighting forgotten women killed by police is also emblematic of being a Black woman in America. (In)visible Portraits, Oge Egbuonu‘s feature directorial debut, reinforces that awareness and explores generations of otherizing Black women. “This documentary is a timeless piece,” Egbuonu tells BET.com “It’s also a think piece. …

Photo: Brad Barket (Getty Images) Juneteenth, the holiday recognizing the end of slavery in the U.S., was marked by widespread celebrations across the country yesterday—bringing a bright spot of joy in a year that’s left the Black community experiencing more than its fair share of sorrow. Beyoncé helped make the …

Read: Why Americans might not trust the election results Trump has made some of his most incendiary claims on Twitter, and the social-media site drew his fury for appending to his tweets extremely mild language offering readers a fact-check. But that approach, the new research suggests, may not be much …

The nominations are in for the 2020 BET Awards and many of your faves are in the running. From music to movies to sports, the best of the best in Black excellence will be front and center on June 28 at 8 p.m. EST. RELATED: BET Awards ‘20: BET Her …

Photo: Brett Carlsen (Getty Images) It ain’t nearly enough…but it’s a start. It’s been about three months and one week since Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by three Louisville police officers during a botched execution of a no-knock search warrant. Now, after all the time spent by Taylor’s family and …

When construction on the BOK Center started in 2005, workers found human remains. This wasn’t new; development in the surrounding blocks had unearthed human bones in the ’40s, ’60s, ’70s, and ’90s. Tulsa’s first cemetery operated at the site from 1882 to 1905. Some of Tulsa’s most famous pioneers were …