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We’ve already heard from Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union about how proud they are of Zaya’s decision to identify as female, but now Wade’s oldest child is speaking out about it. Via his Instagram account, Zaire shared a picture with him and Zaya from when they were very young and …

Photo: Shutterstock Another day and unfortunately, another unnecessary death of a young black man. KMOV reports that Lamar Catchings, a 20-year-old man, died on March 1, 2019 in the St. Louis County Jail. A report released by the county has revealed new details surrounding the young man’s death. The report …

Written by Jerry L. Barrow Stella Meghie’s new filmThe Photograph captures love in all its varied forms spanning time and distance. The romantic drama stars Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield as two young professionals whose paths cross when a newspaper article on fishermen in New Orleans re-connects their severed bonds. As …

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—On a drizzly day in January 2018, Jeff Alson, an engineer at the Environmental Protection Agency’s motor-vehicles office, gathered with his colleagues to make a video call to Washington, D.C. They had made the same call dozens of times before. For nearly a decade, the EPA team had …

The president of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP joined Delaware Senator Chris Coons and others on a press conference call Tuesday (February 11) to oppose Donald Trump’s nomination of an Alabama judge to a federal appeals court seat. The Senate will likely vote on the confirmation of U.S. …

Now in its third year of operation, the inaugural graduating class from LeBron James’ I Promise School will receive free tuition to attend Kent State University. Representatives from Kent State surprised the 11th-grade-students with the announcement of free tuition and one year of room and board, according to BleacherReport.com. The …

A mugshot of actor Jussie Smollett after making false crimes charge. Source: Chicago PD A little over a year after Jussie Smollett’s controversial allegations of being a victim of a racist and homophobic attack, a grand jury charged him with a six-count indictment for lying to Chicago police about the …

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) Does Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) stay winning? That’s what it certainly feels like, y’all. According to Forbes, during a hearing with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Pressley made sure that the chairman and everyone in attendance understood the role that the civil rights movement played …

On Thursday, tucked inside a basement college classroom in Durham, New Hampshire, that could have doubled as a bunker, Weld described the stakes of his campaign. His expectations were the floor, he told me, leaning back and opening a bag of popcorn. If he got even a semblance of support, …

Propelled by the debut of a new Neflix documentary that digs into the case of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, the district attorney in New York is considering a reinvestigation of the shooting that claimed the life of the famed civil rights icon. In a statement this week to …