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This year for Black History Month, we launched Black, Out & Proud, an interview series with Black queer celebrities across various industries, from music and fashion to acting and beauty. One of the
This year for Black History Month, we launched Black, Out & Proud, an interview series with Black queer celebrities across various industries, from music and fashion to acting and beauty. One of the
TACOMA: Lawyers for three Washington state police officers charged in the 2020 death of a Black man told the jury on Tuesday that his death was the result of drug use, not excessive force that included officers choking, shocking and holding him facedown. Manuel Ellis was addicted to methamphetamine, and it caused him to be […]
On This Day: Nov. 14, 1991The Happening Well, he did warn us that his new album was going to be … Dangerous. In 1991, Michael Jackson roared back onto the pop music scene with his long-awaited follow-up to 1987’s bestselling Bad. The first single off the record, “Black or White,” dropped on Nov. 11, 1991, […]
School children light candles near the Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 4, 2023. Many wearing black and carrying flowers, scores of Serbian students on Thursday paid silent homage to their peers killed a day earlier when a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns in a school shooting rampage that sent shock waves […]
Photo: Michael Putland (Getty Images) The veteran crooner died on August 10, 2008, at the age of 65. The soul singer and songwriter died of a stroke. His wife found him laying on the floor of their Memphis home. SLIDE #14Bernie Mac Photo: Scott Gries (Getty Images) Beloved actor and comedian Bernie Mac died on […]
Photo: Michael Putland (Getty Images) The veteran crooner died on August 10, 2008, at the age of 65. The soul singer and songwriter died of a stroke. His wife found him laying on the floor of their Memphis home. SLIDE #14Bernie Mac Photo: Scott Gries (Getty Images) Beloved actor and comedian Bernie Mac died on […]
Three former Georgia sheriff’s deputies were arrested and charged for allegedly beating a Black inmate in a videotaped September attack that “shocked the conscience,” authorities said Tuesday. Mason Garrick, 23, Braxton Massey, 21, and Ryan Biegel, 24, were taken into . . .
DENVER — A Black man who was fully restrained in a chair when a white sheriff’s sergeant in Boulder County, Colorado, used a Taser on him alleges race was a “motivating factor” in the decision to use excessive force, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit. The plaintiff, Travis Cole, says the incident on the […]
In a TikTok video posted this month, Lee says he was looking forward to reading “From the Block to the Bank: How to Make the Most of Your Circumstance to Maximize Your Full Potential” by his friend, Ash Cash, a Black author and financial adviser who’s written at least nine books. However, when Lee opened […]