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‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); A 5-year-old North Carolina boy was shot and killed by his neighbor while riding his bicycle outside his home over the weekend. Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his dad’s house in Wilson, N.C. around 5:30 p.m. Sunday (Aug. 2) with his two …

In some ways, at least, the negligence of the Trump administration actually exceeds that of the Lebanese government. An explosion, after all, is a sudden thing that happens all at once. There is no intervening once it begins. A pandemic, by contrast, takes place over time. Each day thus offers …

President Barack Obama issued a statement on Tuesday (August 11) to congratulate Kamala Harris on earning the Democratic party’s nomination for Vice President of the United States. The party’s presidential candidate, Joe Biden, announced the California senator as his running mate on Tuesday afternoon. Harris is positioned to be the …

Share0 Los Angeles Police Officers pointing guns at teenagers (Image: Screenshot) A video surfaced online of police officers in California drawing their weapons on unarmed Black teenagers who didn’t commit a crime, according to TheGrio. Tammi Collins, the mother of one of the boys detained, said her son and his …

Photo: Michael Ciaglo (Getty Images) The family of Elijah McClain is officially suing the city of Aurora, Colorado, the police officers involved in McClain’s detainment and the medical professionals who administered ketamine to the 23-year-old shortly before he was taken to the hospital and put on life support. The federal lawsuit …

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais is sharing a story about a stranger who once thought she was the nanny for her biracial children. During Bravo’s roundtable discussion Race in America: A Movement Not a Moment on Sunday (August 9), the RHOBH co-star explained the incident.  “I had …

“There will be a resistance to your ambition. There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane,’ because they are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be.” That was Kamala Harris, earlier this month, speaking …

With less than three months before the  election, Kanye West is still trying to get on the ballot in major states. Now, the rapper is pulling a Trump and claiming Democrats are spying on him. Wisconsin officials have accused Kanye of submitting fake signatures to get on the ballot. According …

Many people in the country are celebrating Joe Biden‘s pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate, potentially making the California senator the first Black woman to serve as vice president of the United States. In light of this historic moment, BET will air BLACK AMERICA VOTES: The VP Choice, …

Raymond Allen, an actor who had a recurring role as Uncle Woody in the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son has reportedly passed away. He was 91. According to TMZ, he was housed in a California long-term facility when he was found unresponsive on Monday morning (August 10). EMTs subsequently attempted …