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Joshua Jackson condemned social media trolls who posted “racist and misogynist” comments about his wife Jodie Turner-Smith, after he revealed that she initially proposed to him. In an interview published on Tuesday (Aug. 17) with Refinery29, the 43-year-old actor shared details about the proposal. “Thank you for giving me the …

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that the city has won a lawsuit she filed against David Elmendorf, the former owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze, in Schenectady, New York. Elmendorf was sued for discrimination, harassment, making violent threats, and filing false, race-based police reports against peaceful protesters. BLACK ENTERPRISE …

ZoChan? ChanZo? The nickname mill is starting for the newest celebrity couple on the block, Zoë Kravitz And Channing Tatum. On Wednesday, August 18, the two were spotted bike riding in New York City. One photo obtained by Page Six showed Kravitz’s arms around Tatum. See below: The rumors started …

ShotSpotter equipment overlooks the intersection of South Stony Island Avenue and East 63rd Street in Chicago on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Photo: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast (AP) The last thing the justice system needed was another way to put innocent Black people in jail. ShotSpotter, an AI-powered surveillance system that’s …

“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. In Robert M. Pirsig’s 1974 book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the author describes a device he calls “the old South Indian Monkey Trap.” It consists of a hollowed-out coconut …

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Earlier this year in January, BLACK ENTERPRISE reported that the sheriff’s department in Osceola County, FL, was looking into an incident involving a school resource officer who was seen on camera at a high school body-slamming a Black teenager, Taylor Bracey to the ground. She appears unconscious before the officer …

Screenshot: YouTube/ABC News Jeopardy! executive producer and recently appointed permanent host Mike Richards is once again apologizing for some past problematic behaviors. People reports that Richards issued an apology statement after several derogatory comments made on a previous podcast he hosted recently resurfaced. From 2013 to 2014, Richards hosted The …

The defining motif of Nine Perfect Strangers, David E. Kelley’s new miniseries on Hulu, is an image of fruit being pulverized into gloop, which is also how my brain felt after watching the first six episodes. Like HBO’s Big Little Lies, the show is adapted from a novel by Liane …

Donovan Lynch, Pharrell Williams’ 25-year-old cousin, was shot and killed by Virginia Beach Police on March 27. His death has now been ruled a homicide. According to the autopsy exclusively obtained by the New York Post, “Lynch’s death was a homicide, no criminal charges have been filed in the case …