The rapper and producer says he’s starting a new party ‘to help advance a political agenda that addresses the needs of Black people.’ Sean “Diddy” Combs said Friday he’s supporting Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president, while also starting a Black political party. “I’m launching one of the boldest things […]
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Photograph: AMC Soulmates, an AMC anthology series co-created by a Black Mirror writer and Stranger Things producer, orbits around an intriguing if not previously unexplored fictional breakthrough: in the near-ish future, a test can determine, based on genetics, one’s singular soulmate. This disruptive premise – the age-old question of compatibility […]
Donald Trump; Darrell Scott; Turkish Flag Donald Trump and Darrell Scott | Turkish Flag Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images This is the second part of a two-part series. In the first article in this series, Salon explored how officials with a controversial pro-Trump nonprofit called the Urban Revitalization Coalition (URC) […]
On the night of March 11, 1972, thousands of Black Americans from around the country — Democrats, Republicans, socialists and nationalists alike — packed into a high school gymnasium in Gary, Ind., for the first National Black Political Convention. The room brimmed with tension, as the high ideals of Black […]
Photo credit: Gerald R Carter Jr From Marie Claire Jasmine Marie is the founder of Black Girls Breathing—an Atlanta-based community that encourages Black women to nurture their mental, emotional, and spiritual health through meditational breathwork. Here, in her own words, Jasmine shares how she’s leading her business during the pandemic, […]
The next Call of Duty video game returns to the setting of the original Black Ops, when Cold War intrigue dominated global relations. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, out Nov. 13, will be available for Sony PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PCs on Battle.net – and for PS5 and Xbox […]
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, the Tallinn Black Nights film festival’s industry strand, is going completely online due to likely travel restrictions caused by the resurgence of COVID-19. Travel around the world is in a state of flux in several countries, with varying quarantine requirements. While there have been no new […]
A Hampton Inn employee has been fired after calling the police on a Black family using the hotel’s swimming pool in Williamston, North Carolina. “Hampton by Hilton has zero tolerance for racism or discrimination of any kind. On Saturday, we were alerted to an online video of a guest incident at one of our […]
The police in Martinez, California, are on the lookout for a woman and a man who vandalized a Black Lives Matter mural on Saturday. Screenshot via Kerry Leidich/YouTube A man and a woman were filmed Saturday vandalizing a freshly painted Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, California. The pair said […]
The National Park Service is preparing the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area for the upcoming season. This year, visitors should be aware of highway construction between Curecanti and the Black Canyon, as well as the reconstruction of the Elk Creek Visitor Center. Weather […]
As more states are easing COVID-19 vaccine restrictions and more people are getting their shots, Black Americans are receiving a smaller proportion of doses than white Americans, despite higher case rates and being twice as likely to die from the disease. NBC News recently reported that this discrepancy speaks to […]
Tiffany Arnold had been a paratransit driver for Atlanta’s mass transit system, MARTA, for nine years when COVID-19 sent the city into lockdown. Just like that, her job and all her co-workers’ jobs vanished. “How are we going to eat, how are we going to live, how are we going […]
After weeks of uninhibited partying on South Beach by spring breakers, Miami Beach police turned away throngs of people — many of them Black and brown — from world-famous Ocean Drive Saturday night using a SWAT truck, pepper balls and sound cannons. The tactics were intended to enforce an 8 […]
South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley puts streamers on a trophy after an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia Sunday, March 7, 2021, during the Southeastern Conference tournament final in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford) Sean Rayford AP COLUMBIA, S.C. Dawn Staley’s passion is evident when she’s on a basketball […]
Growing up on a farm in Iowa, I spent hours next to my dad in the front seat of his pickup. When my legs finally grew long enough to reach the pedals, I occasionally slid behind the wheel to drive down the dusty country roads. So aside from the chore […]
FORMER UFC star Paige VanZant revealed a new braided hairstyle in a series of black and white photos shared to her social media on Tuesday. The 26-year-old posed for photographer Eric Coleman wearing tight black leggings and a sports bra for the pictures posted to her Instagram. 🏅 Follow all […]
CLOSE Take them down, move them to a museum? There are a lot of ideas but few answers on what the United States should do with Confederate monuments. USA TODAY When the early-1800s expedition to the Pacific Ocean led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned after two years and 8,000 […]
Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 hit Pacific Rim was a case of two entertaining things that went well together—namely, enormous Godzilla-style monsters and equally gargantuan robot animé mechas. It was a hybrid concept predicated on scale, with titanic armored warriors dubbed Jaegers doing thunderous weaponized and hand-to-hand combat with creatures known […]
Stephanie Jones is founder and CEO of the National Blacks in Travel & Tourism Collaborative and a United States Travel and Tourism Advisory board member. Stephanie M. Jones A one-stop-shop website aimed at matching Black professionals with tourism business opportunities just went live. The Black Tourism Talent Directory features profiles […]
Saturday, February 06, 2021 1. Classic Cicely Following Cicely Tyson’s death last week, fans are paying homage by revisiting her most timeless performances. From 1974’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman to Roots, Tyson’s roles provided the kind of representation Black women are still fighting for — and the actress displayed a range that most actors can’t approach. Who […]