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Photo: Stock (Shutterstock) It’s apparently open season on Black people in America, and that includes our children. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is now investigating a shooting incident in which officers from the Waycross Police Department in Ware County, Georgia fired multiple times at a vehicle of …

Director Spike Lee’s first feature-length film, She’s Gotta Have It, premiered in theaters on Aug. 8, 1986. She’s Gotta Have It is a comedy about Nola Darling, a free-spirited African-American woman in Brooklyn, New York, and her three suitors. Lee makes an appearance in the film as one of those suitors, a bike messenger named Mars …

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Democrats are calling out the head of the U.S. Postal Service, who is a donor to the Trump Campaign and chair of the finance committee for the GOP convention, even as he continues to barrel forward with a series of changes that have been majorly …

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s hit collab and fire music video for “WAP” has been the talk of the internet since it was released on Friday. While most people have been focused on the message of empowerment and the temperature-raising visuals, there’s one aspect of the clip that many …

Photo: Jennifer Vinciguerra (Shutterstock) A survey of employees at Veterans Affairs has revealed that nearly 80 percent of them believe that racism is a serious and widespread problem within the government agency. The nationwide survey of 1,500 workers at the VA was conducted by the American Federation of Government Employees …

A few weeks ago, I went to a political rally in a farmyard. The Polish presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski was speaking; in the background, a golden wheat field shimmered in the late-afternoon sun. The audience was enthusiastic—the host, a local farmer, had spread news of the candidate’s visit only the …

Facebook has reportedly removed dozens of accounts of “Black Trump supporters” discovered to be generated by a troll farm in Romania. The social media company says the farm of accounts violated its policies against coordinated inauthentic behavior. A July enforcement activity report states that Facebook removed 35 personal accounts, three …

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Common has been somewhat coy about his budding relationship with Tiffany Haddish, but now that the cat is out of the bag, it looks like he’s excited to share with the world exactly how he feels about his new leading lady. During an appearance on Live With Kelly And Ryan …

That March day, on the other side of the bridge stood hundreds of Alabama state troopers, sheriff’s deputies, and mounted “possemen” (white locals “deputized” by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark). They were armed with rifles, tear gas, batons, and cattle prods. “It would be detrimental to your safety to continue …