Source: Goodboy Picture Company / Getty   The fight to end hair discrimination continues. According to CNN, Democrats are pushing to have the CROWN Act enforced on a federal level to ban discrimination based on a person’s hairstyle or hair texture. MORE: State Of The Union: Darryl George, Black Student Suspended Over Locs, Attends Biden’s Address CROWN, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, protects individuals […]

Source: Visual Vic / Getty The first historically Black college is headed to California this year. National College Resources (NCR) and Huston-Tillotson University partnered to bring two satellite campuses to the state. Read more details about this historic opportunity inside. This upcoming school year will be exciting for the sunshine state. NCR partners with Austin-based Huston-Tillotson University to establish two satellite campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles County.  The […]

Source: moodboard / Getty The journey to motherhood and the experience of pregnancy should be one defined by joyous anticipation and dedicated care. But for far too many Black women in the U.S., the experience is often irreversibly marred by the structural and systemic racism in the industry that is to first do no harm. While this should come as no surprise given that the modern field of gynecology developed […]

Source: REACH Media / Reach Media Sybil’s Birthday Shout-Outs Designer, 27 Dule Hill, 49 Damon Dash, 53 Farrah Franklin, 43 (Member of Destiny’s Child) Willie Geist, 49 (Today Show, Morning Joe) James Brown, would have been 91 (passed in 2006) Sybil Wilkes Top 5 Stories for ‘What You Need To Know:’ May 3, 2024 The post Sybil Wilkes ‘What You Need To Know:’ The financial woes of FBI agents & […]

Source: Gary Coronado / Getty There’s a reason why there are so many people, especially Black people, who believe the entire system of policing in America needs to be thrown away. It’s not just about racist cops. And it’s certainly not about reducing the problem to “a few bad apples.” It’s about an entire rotten orchard full of police departments protecting cops from accountability, giving them a near-infinite benefit of […]

The Mayor-Elect earlier in her career with former US President, Bill Clinton Source: Liam McBurney – PA Images / Getty Councilor Lilian Seenoi-Barr is set to make history as the first Black mayor in Northern Ireland, but her historic appointment has drawn criticism from local politicians and controversial conspiracy theorists like David Icke and morally and financially bankrupt Alex Jones who, in just one of his ongoing vulgar rants–the he […]

  Source: Pez Photography / Getty For all of the boasting the GOP has done lately about making marginal progress in attracting Black voters, Republicans continue to have no issue whatsoever with playing around in Black people’s faces about our history and about America’s legacy of racism, anti-Black cruelty and exploitation, which they continue to downplay while celebrating the very institution that fought a war to keep us in bondage […]

Source: REACH Media / Reach Media Sybil’s Birthday Shout-Outs Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, 52 David Beckham, 49 DC Young Fly, 32 Paul George, 34 Pat McAfee, 37 Donatella Versace, 69     Sybil Wilkes Top 5 Stories for ‘What You Need To Know:’ May 2, 2024   The post Sybil Wilkes ‘What You Need To Know:’ Are Shoes and Chicken Distracting You?, Friendli-er Skies, and Memoir of Former Miss USA […]

Source: Alexander Tamargo / Getty Ashanti, crowned the princess of hip hop and R&B, has been a force to reckon with in the music industry since her debut in 2002. With a career spanning over two decades, Ashanti has established herself as a true powerhouse in the music industry. Her soulful vocals and mesmerizing stage presence have earned her numerous accolades and a loyal fan base. Ashanti’s features in music […]