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BET’s 2020 Republican National Convention Coverage Day 3: Wednesday, August 26, 2020: Follow BET’s coverage with our live blog for the latest updates from the Republican National Convention kicking off in Charlotte, NC. We’ll feature news about the event, speeches, performances and commentary from August 24-27.  Each night, the convention will include speeches from Party …

Gabrielle Union has been through her fair share of frustration and disappointment over her twenty-plus year career in entertainment, but she reveals that a recent incident proved to be the “hardest part” of her journey as a Black woman in Hollywood. Speaking on a panel during the American Black Film …

1 Image via @asherald/Instagram The death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, has become the latest polarizing account of police brutality toward Black Americans within this country with millions across the country using social media to make a call for justice and for the arrest of the police officers responsible. …

Photo: Tverdokhlib (Shutterstock) Shots were fired at a group of organizers marching from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C., on Monday night. ABC News reports that the group was headed to D.C. for the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks,” march. Frank “Nitty” Sensabaugh, a Milwaukee activist and one of the organizers …

“Outraged protesters uphold principles no different from those articulated in the founding documents,” Myisha Cherry, a philosophy professor at UC Riverside, argues. “This makes their anger not anti-American, but as American as one can get.” Kevin Winter / Getty One question, answered: Some college reopening plans include regular testing regimens …

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the gun-toting, conservative couple from St. Louis, made a prepared speech during the 2020 Republican National Convention. The pair, who have been parodied as “Karen and Ken,” made national headlines after they were seen brandishing their weapons in the name of protecting their home while Black Lives …

0 (Image: Howard University) As HBCUs continue to find a way to survive amid various institutional problems, many are showing their support by continuing to advocate for the importance of these historical educational establishments by teaching their history to the next generation. This week, an Indiana teenager made waves when …

A global pandemic. Police violence. Protests. An economic crisis. Our democracy at risk—and with it, many of the freedoms we enjoy, tenuous though they may already be. We are facing intersecting challenges at this moment in America, and it’s often difficult to know where to focus our attention and energy, …

But to the frustration of some activists, the Senate proposal does not go as far as the House or Biden plans in restraining the supply of fossil fuels available to drillers. It does not call for a ban on oil drilling on public lands, for instance, and it suggests expanding …

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican senator in office, was the last speaker during the first evening of the 2020 Republican National Convention on Monday. During his speech, Scott presented his own boot straps story while expressing his frustrations working with Democrats on legislation around criminal justice …