New Report Shows Less Support for Black Nonprofits Since 2020 Racial Reckoning
The Story of How Atlanta Became ‘Black Hollywood’
Black Pastor Charged With Manslaughter After Deadly Backyard Baptism
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Sky's the Limit—Brooklyn to Rename Street in Honor of the Late Notorious B.I.G.'s 47th Birthday
Baby, Bay-bayyy! On the blessed day of May 21, 1972, Christoper George Latore Wallace, who would grow to be a man of many names—Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, Big Poppa, and more—was born. This year, 2019, marks what would’ve been the late legendary rapper’s 47th trip around the sun. Now, Brooklyn will immortalize him in a…
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Is Dating Getting Young People in the Door to Therapy? These Experts Say Yes
Dating is hard. Anyone who says otherwise is probably lying or not a millennial. Whether the reason is we’re too busy to find someone, too uncomfortable to get out there (one time for the awkward black girls!), or a whole host of other reasons, more and more young people are finding it harder to settle…
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Milwaukee County Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis. Will More Cities Follow Suit?
In what’s being touted as an important first step in addressing decades of race-based inequality, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele signed a resolution Monday declaring racism a public health crisis. “Everybody has been reading and hearing about the same set of statistics in Milwaukee for decades,” Abele said at yesterday’s signing, according to the Milwaukee…
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Rape Trial Begins for Former NFL Pro Kellen Winslow Jr.
Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr.’s trial begins Monday amid charges of lewd conduct, indecent exposure, and raping two women last year, as well as the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in 2003 when she was unconscious. Winslow Jr., 35, has pleaded not guilty to all 12 counts brought against him by five women.…
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Get Your Mind Right: A Guide to ‘New Age’ Therapies for Mental Wellness
There are a million ways for a girl to get her mind right. Some nights she might permit her waist to recklessly abandon it all on a dance floor. Some days it requires a flight to blue skies and even bluer waters (funds permitting). Many times, though, it happens in someone’s chair. A therapist’s. A…
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Magic Johnson Claims 'Betrayal' and 'Backstabbing' as Reasons He Abruptly Left the Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers front office and, subsequently the team, are a hot flaming bag of old Kobe rap lyrics. The Lakers brass must’ve forgotten that Magic Johnson is not only a NBA Hall of Fame point guard, he owns half of black America and has a son that stunts in stilettos. Meaning, Magic Johnson…
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2019 Peabody Awards: Pose and Random Acts of Flyness Among Honorees, FX to Debut Documentary TV Special on Winners
The 78th Annual Peabody Awards ceremony kicked off on Saturday, May 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, and the category was…representation matters! Among the Peabody’s 30 honorees were FX’s hit show Pose and HBO’s critically acclaimed Random Acts of Flyness. The winners ranged from various mediums within entertainment such as television, documentaries,…
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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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In Love and War: Jiréh Breon Holder’s Too Heavy for Your Pocket Weighs the Price of Freedom
It’s funny how the more things change, the more they say the same. Friday, May 17, marked 65 years to the day of the Brown v. the Board of Education ruling—a bittersweet anniversary, as civil and human rights continue to be rolled back across America and deep inequities for black and brown people persist with…