Vanessa Williams Reflects On Miss America Backlash

In 1983, Vanessa Williams made history as the first Black woman to be crowned Miss America.  But while she received excessive racist backlash from white people, angered that a Black woman would hold the title, there were also some in the Black community who were outraged by her winning the …

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Beyoncé Provides Assistance To Texans During Winter Storm

Beyoncé‘s BeyGOOD Foundation has teamed up with adidas and Bread of Life, a Houston disaster relief organization, to help provide immediate relief to Texans amid a historic Winter Storm. The Houston native is helping fellow Texans after a winter storm left millions without electricity, heat and water for several days. …

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Inside the Strange World of the Police

Photographs by Joseph Rodríguez “Police work is doing what people in the city want done,” Willie Williams, the Los Angeles Police Department chief, told me in 1994. Williams, the agency’s first Black chief, had been brought in from Philadelphia to make changes after LAPD officers beat Rodney King in 1991, …

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