This Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, file photo shows the logo of live streaming video platform Twitch at the Paris games week in Paris.Photo: Christophe Enamor (AP) Twitch has filed a legal complaint against two users for flooding the chats of Black, queer and disabled streamers with racist, sexist and homophobic …
Read More »The Prophet of Nothingness
In Joy Williams’s 1988 novel, Breaking and Entering, a drifter named Willie finds himself, inexplicably and as if against his will, saving people. A young man is struck by lightning and Willie gives him CPR. An elderly couple drives off a boat ramp and Willie pulls the door open. Willie …
Read More »Pop Smoke’s Gravesite Badly Vandalized
Pop Smoke’s gravesite was reportedly destroyed this weekend after vandals smashed the face of his mausoleum and attempted to drag out part of the inside. TMZ reports that an eyewitness provided them with photos of what looks like the Canarsie rapper’s crypt defaced at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He …
Read More »Saint West Reportedly Broke His Arm ‘In A Few Places’
Saint West, the son of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, reportedly broke his arm recently and mom says she is “not OK.’ The Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum recently took to her social media to reveal the family news. Via her Instagram Story, she shared a number of posts …
Read More »Save Over $100 On A 1-Year Subscription To The ‘Coinbase Of Decentralized Storage’
These days, it’s no longer a matter of where you will store your data, but how big your storage will be. With the way we collect data every day—from emails and work documents to news articles and images—you’ll run out of storage sooner than you’d hope. You always have the …
Read More »Tameka Foster Shares How She Coped With Her Son’s Death
Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Foster is opening up about their marriage in a new memoir called Here I Stand… in a Beautiful State, which she spoke about on Wednesday via Tamron Hall. Foster also spoke about how she coped with the tragic loss of her son Kile Glover, who died from …
Read More »A Black Massachusetts Couple Says They Were Accused of Stealing 6 Apples While Visiting a Farm on Labor Day
Photo: nadia_if (Shutterstock) A Danvers, Massachusetts-based farm has apologized to a Black couple after staffers called the police on them for allegedly stealing six apples. According to the Associated Press, Manikka Bowman and Jeff Myers detailed their experience at Connors Farm in a public blog post. The couple wrote that …
Read More »Jason Derulo Has Life-Size Cake Made Of Himself
Jason Derulo collaborated with a TikTok baker to make the most incredible dessert for his taste. Lara Mason is known for her “Cake Anything” videos and shared a clip on Wednesday (September 8) of the “Talk Dirty” singer, calling her to ask for a life-size cake of, well, himself. “Hey, …
Read More »How Hollywood Sold Out to China
Chloé Zhao, the director of Nomadland, is new Hollywood royalty. In April, she made history as the first woman of color to win Best Director at the Oscars. In November, her big-budget Marvel movie, Eternals, will arrive in theaters. She commands so much admiration from the industry right now that …
Read More »New York Woman’s Remains From 9/11 Identified 20 Years Later
Two victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center have been identified. According to local station News 12, Dorothy Morgan of Hempstead, N.Y., and a man not currently being named were identified via DNA recovered between 2001 and 2006. Morgan, a 47-year-old grandmother, becomes the 1,646th …
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