Conspiracy theorist and anti-abortion rights Republican Mark Robinson will face off against Democrat Josh Stein in the race for North Carolina’s governor primary election in November. Robinson has a leg up, given the Republican party’s dominance in North Carolina’s legislature, but that might not be a good thing for marginalized residents living in the southern state. Robinson — who became North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor in 2020 — has a […]

Source: Amy Sussman / Getty Multi-hyphenate entertainer Queen Latifah will once again host the NAACP Image Awards, which is set to air in two weeks on BET. On Tuesday (March 5), the NAACP along with BET and CBS announced that Queen Latifah will be back to host the esteemed 55th NAACP Image Awards. The prestigious ceremony will air live on BET and be simulcast on Saturday, March 16 at 8:00 […]

Source: Anadolu / Getty Super Tuesday voting in North Carolina saw some predictable victories, with President Joe Biden & Former President Donald Trump easily nabbing victories for their respective presidential campaigns. The Gubernatorial primary was predictable too, with Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein heading into a face-off with Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson. However, one big shock from Super Tuesday is that incumbent NC Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt lost her […]

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U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) speaks to reporters as she is joined by fellow House Democrats in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Incumbent Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee easily fended off a primary challenge on Super Tuesday by her former Congressional intern just a few short months after the Democrat lost her bid to be mayor […]

Groups of heavily armed gangs launched an audacious bid to seize command of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Haiti’s main international airport, on March 4, according to ABC News. The assailants engaged in intense exchanges of gunfire with law enforcement and military personnel during the attempted takeover. The brazen assault represents the most recent in a string of attacks targeting vital government buildings, signaling a disturbing escalation of violence across the Caribbean […]

Source: Justin Casterline / Getty AVON, Ind.–Domestic battery charges against Indianapolis Colts Tight End Drew Ogletree were dismissed on Tuesday. It’s from an incident that happened in December 2023. When officers with the Avon Police Department got to a home after being called there, they found a woman in a bedroom crying. They say she told them that Ogletree had “body slammed her onto the ground” in an argument over […]

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks in the library at Mar-a-Lago on March 4, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. | Source: Alon Skuy / Getty Donald Trump just might be the most effective propagandist we’ve seen in generations. Mind you, he’s not effective because he’s objectively smart, cunning or universally influential. Trump has managed to normalize idiocracy, bigotry and outright lies because America is so chock full of […]

Source: Cliff Hawkins / Getty Former NBA star Charles Barkley appears to have come a long way from four years ago when he was essentially siding with Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in defending the cops who killed Breonna Taylor. Now, the man who is always one off-color remark away from sounding like a Black conservative lapdog himself is threatening to punch MAGA-loving Black people in the face if he catches them […]