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Kendrick Lamar performs onstage at the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City.Image: Christopher Polk for NARAS (Getty Images) If you’ve waiting with bated breath for a new project from Kendrick Lamar, then I have good-ish news for you. According to …
Read More »VIDEO: Kanye West Attends Daughter Chicago’s Fourth Birthday Party After Accusing Kardashian Clan of Withholding The Location
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West (now referred to as Ye) is all the better after finally making it to his daughter Chicago’s fourth birthday party. He had accused his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, and her clan of purposely not giving him the location of the shindig. According to …
Read More »Black Venice Beach Residents Fight to Preserve Historic Church
Photo: MaxMaximovPhotography (Shutterstock) A historically Black church is fighting to maintain its ground in California. The First Baptist Church of Venice was once the sole place of worship for Black residents of the old Oakwood neighborhood, one of the only beachside residential areas that Black people were allowed to occupy …
Read More »Akron Pastor Under Investigation After Authorities Find 89 Cremated Bodies At His Church
Months after he was arrested for acting as an unlicensed funeral director, an Ohio pastor is now facing a multitude of additional charges after authorities discovered 89 cremated remains in his abandoned church. According to the Daily Mail, a woman calling herself an “urban explorer” tipped authorities off after she …
Read More »Kanye Tells All in Newly Released Track, "Eazy"
Photo: Tinseltown (Shutterstock) Somebody check on our good friend, Ye. It looks like he’s had one hell of a weekend. Just a week after debuting his new girlfriend, Julia Fox, it might be fair to say that he hasn’t moved on from his life with estranged wife Kim Kardashian just …
Read More »Afro Puffs — Activate! Three-Year-Old’s Birthday Photos As Spider-Girl Goes Viral
With great power, comes a great pair of afro puffs for one special little three-year-old girl who got to show off her Black girl magic in a photoshoot as Spider Girl. Based in Mobile, Alabama, Rae’s Bleu Rose Photography threw social media in a frenzy when she posted snapshots of …
Read More »Denzel Talks Looking Beyond Race in New Macbeth Adaptation
Photo: Andrea Raffin (Shutterstock) On January 14, 2021, Joel Coen’s new film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth, was released on Apple TV+ after being screened in selected theaters since December 25, 2021. Although there have been many adaptations of the Shakespearean play, Coen’s film stars actor Denzel Washington as Macbeth. Washington …
Read More »NYC Man Calls Himself ‘God’ After Killing Woman By Pushing Her In Front Of Subway Train
A homeless man walked into an NYPD transit precinct on Saturday morning and confessed to pushing a woman off of a Times Square subway platform as a train pulled into the station. According to the New York Post, the 40-year-old victim, Michelle Go, was standing on a southbound platform at …
Read More »Japanese Americans Join The Struggle for Black Reparations
Photo: Bob Korn (Shutterstock) If you got burnout from circulating the same book list on how to be an antiracist to your white colleagues and friends, here’s a story that might just restore your hope in the definition and practice of true allyship. In the wake of the Black Lives …
Read More »How <em>Encanto</em> and <em>Moana</em> Explain America
In Disney’s latest blockbuster, Encanto, a magical family called the Madrigals have escaped the violence and chaos of their homeland by crossing a river into an enchanted paradise that endows each with wondrous gifts that they use to protect and enhance their community. As the generations go by, however, the …
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