In Loni Love’s new memoir, she goes deep about love, career and her experiences with racism. In an excerpt via PEOPLE, the 48-year-old talk show host told a harrowing story about being arrested by a police officer over a soda. Back in the 1990s, Love, originally from Detroit, said she …
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A Black man was shot in the back and killed by Atlanta police after someone complained that he was sleeping in his car in a Wendy’s drive-thru line. According to a preliminary report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, officers with the Atlanta Police Department were dispatched to the …
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Cops became a reliable recruiting tool for police departments across America. It also became a way for disgraced units to rehab their reputation on camera. As a Vox documentary points out, the Los Angeles Police Department finally agreed to give the show access in 1994, two years after riots erupted …
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Dave Chappelle is back with a new comedy special 8:46, which debuted today on Netflix. The legendary comedian delivers his scathing takes on politics, celebrity and, of course, Trump. But the 46-year-old really let loose on African-American Trump supporter Candace Owens in response to the vile comments about George Floyd …
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On this day, civil Rights activist Medgar W. Evers was shot in the back by a white supremacist in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home. He was only 37 years old. Born in Decatur, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925, Evers became involved with the National Association for the Advancement of …
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Days after transgender model Munroe Bergdorf announced she joined L’Oreal’s United Kingdom diversity board, she has received racist and transphobic comments. On Wednesday (June 10), the 32-year-old took to Instagram and spoke out about the onslaught of hateful words she’s received, adding that the comments always increase “every time something …
Read More »Photo: Andy Lyons (Getty Images) Close to three months after the NBA suspended its 2020 season amid a global pandemic, the organization announced that 22 of the league’s 30 teams will be making a glorious return, resuming the season at Walt Disney World Resort at the end of July. But …
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Queen Latifah, in partnership with Procter & Gamble and Tribeca Studios, is aiming to promote gender and racial equality among filmmakers through the Queen Collective, a short film development program which is in its second year. The rapper-turned-actress became the first woman to receive a Grammy for Best Rap Solo …
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The evening, Surender Malik recalls, was a blur. Exhausted, he had just sat down to watch television as his wife prepared dinner when Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on-screen. It was March 24, and the coronavirus outbreak had been declared a pandemic about two weeks prior. Thus far India appeared …
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Written by Demetria Irwin Empowering women has been a major focus of Queen Latifah’s career, from “Ladies First” to “U.N.I.T.Y,” to the acting roles she selects in movies like Bessie and Hollywood. Now, Queen Latifah is taking that feminist mindset to women of color filmmakers. For the second year in …
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