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Gillette Ad Features Black Trans Teen Shaving for the First Time
With Pride season soon upon us, we’ll soon be inundated with rainbow apparel and items from brands falling over themselves to remind us all how inclusive and woke they all are. Every once in a while, however, a brand gives us something genuinely heartwarming and good. In the latest ad from Gillette, posted to the…
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Texas Authorities Deny Withholding Sandra Bland Video
The Texas Department of Public Safety is denying the office withheld a cellphone video of the killing of Sandra Bland during a 2015 traffic stop. Bland, 28 from just outside Chicago, used her phone to film a white state trooper who drew his taser and yelled “I will light you up!” while demanding she step…
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Harriet Tubman Showing Up on $20 Bills Thanks to New York-Based Designer
According to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, $20 bills featuring Harriet Tubman’s likeness won’t appear in circulation until 2028, years after Donald Trump leaves office. In keeping with Tubman’s character, her likeness has shown up unannounced, according to the Sun-Sentinel. A few minutes after Mnuchin announced that Tubman’s likeness was pushed back until next decade, 33-year-old…
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NYPD Officer Arrested After Hiring a Hitman to Kill Her Husband and Her Boyfriend's Daughter
New York police officer Valerie Cincinelli, mother of two, paid $7,000 as part of a complicated scheme to have her husband Isaiah Carvalho Jr. killed. According to the New York Times, Cincinelli, a 12-year NYPD veteran who once worked in a Queens domestic violence unit, also planned to have the daughter of her boyfriend killed,…
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Transgender Woman Found Dead 1 Month After Being Assaulted by 4 Men
23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker, a transgender woman whose April attack made national headlines, was found dead in Dallas on Sunday morning. According to CNN, Dallas Police Major Vincent Weddington said authorities responded to a report of a shooting around 6:40 a.m. Saturday. “Upon arrival, officers found the complainant lying face down in the street — deceased…
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San Francisco Judge Orders Attorney General to Release Police Records From Before 2019
A judge in San Francisco has ordered the attorney general to release police misconduct records prior to Jan. 1 of this year, the date new transparency legislation took effect, according to the Los Angeles Times. San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer Jr. rejected arguments that the office should not be compelled to…
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Louisiana’s ‘Pro-Life’ Democratic Governor Primed to Sign Anti-Abortion Bill
If you needed your weekly reminder that political party affiliation and morality are rarely intertwined, here’s your refresher. Democratic Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has signaled his support for an anti-abortion bill that would ban the procedure after six weeks. The bill, which bears numerous similarities to the bills passed in Georgia and Missouri, is…
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Congrats, Grad! Morehouse Keynote Speaker Pays Off Debt of Graduating Class
Now we know exactly what it takes to upstage Angela Bassett: Forty million dollars, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. On a hard-earned day of celebration for hundreds of families, Morehouse upped the ante on black excellence. After the casually ethereal Bassett spoke, Robert F. Smith, the billionaire tech investor and philanthropist received an honorary doctorate…
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No Applause: Mo’Nique Addresses Steve Harvey’s Recent Bad Luck
Earlier this week, news broke that serial sleep avoider Steve Harvey had not one, but two gigs stripped from his weekly schedule: his eponymous talk show was set for cancellation, and his hosting gig for NBC’s Little Big Shots would go to another personality, thought to be “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson. Harvey, who gained…
