- Entertainment
Breaking barriers and building bridges: Dr. Chelsey Green is harmonizing education and industry at the Recording Academy
As the first Black woman to chair the Board of Trustees, the violinist and professor is using Music In Our
3 min readTheGrio
- US
‘Biggest, Blackest, and Loudest’: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s unapologetic battle against digital terror
As Mayor Scott exposes a fresh wave of racist vitriol on Instagram, his defiance signals a new era of Black
4 min read - Lifestyle
These iconic American images aim to protest and persuade
From Franklin's "Join or Die" woodcuts to editorial cartoons, the AIDS crisis to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, art has captured America's struggles.
6 min readUSA TODAY
- US
Eye-biting black flies are 'like little demons' in San Gabriel Valley, residents say
Residents in the San Gabriel Valley are contending with a dramatic surge in black flies, a painful little pest known for biting around the eyes and necks of people and pets.
3 min readLA Times
- US
Los Angeles suburb outraged after local mama bear named Goldie is euthanized
Residents of a Los Angeles suburb are protesting that a local black bear was euthanized and using the bear's death to advocate for their furry neighbors
5 min readNBC News
- Business
Why Black professionals are walking away from corporate America — and not looking back
Black professionals are leaving fast-paced corporate culture behind and betting on themselves through entrepreneurship. After years of climbing corporate ladders,
5 min read - Entertainment
This New Rom-Com Could Change Things For Black Cinema — If Enough People Support It
The success of “You, Me & Tuscany” could determine the fate of future Black-led romance films. Unfortunately, that kind of industry pressure isn’t new.
12 min readHuffPost
- Entertainment
From 'Mike & Nick' to 'Peaky Blinders,' 15 movies to stream right now
Need a good movie? Watch these 15 at home now, including Jack Black's "Anaconda" and Chris Pratt's "Mercy." All are free on your streaming services.
5 min read - Sports
Florida Threatens NFL Over Rule Requiring Black Candidates Be Interviewed For Coaching Jobs
A policy within the NFL meant to create opportunities for Black coaches is now being attacked by the Republican-controlled government of Florida.
4 min readBlavity
- Business
The gender pay gap has widened for the second year in a row and Black women may not catch up until 2183
Equal Pay Day arrives at a time when the gender pay gap continues to widen, and Black women remain among
4 min read - US
North Carolina’s photo voter ID mandate can continue as a judge upholds the law
North Carolina’s photo voter identification law was upheld on Thursday, as a federal judge set aside arguments by civil rights groups that Republicans enacted the requirement with discriminatory intent against Black and Latino voters. The decision by U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs is a huge legal victory for Republican legislative leaders who passed the law in late 2018 — weeks after voters approved a constitutional amendment backing the idea. Biggs had presided in spring 2024 over a non-jury trial in a lawsuit filed by the state NAACP and local chapters, which argued that the ID requirement violated the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act.
4 min read - Politics
Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies
President Donald Trump may believe the adage that the pen is mightier than the sword — as long as it's a Sharpie. During a Cabinet meeting Thursday that discussed the war in Iran, record-long security lines at many of the nation's top airports, rising oil prices and skittish stock markets, the president interjected by holding up a custom-made black and gold Sharpie and offering a long story about how his preferred marker came to be a White House fixture. The Sharpie monologue came after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered sobering comments about missile strikes, Tehran's uranium enrichment efforts and the U.S. troops that remain in harm's way.
4.5K4 min read - World
Costa Rica to accept 25 'third country' deportees from US every week
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries." The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the Americas that have signed contentious, often secretive agreements with the U.S. to accept deportees from other countries as U.S. President Donald Trump pressures governments to help him advance his agenda. In many cases, migrants who previously hoped to seek asylum in the U.S. are left in a legal “black hole” in foreign countries where they don’t speak the language.
3 min read - US
Smoglandia: Smog was killing L.A., and a Caltech chemist found the murder weapon — in our garages
Smoglandia: The cause of SoCal's smog is identified and it isn't the factories spewing black gunk into the sky in support of the war effort.
9 min read - Entertainment
Who gets grace? Rachel Lindsay calls out the double standard in ‘Bachelorette’ scandal
Rachel Lindsay, the first Black “Bachelorette,” recalls being “too risky” and now reflects on what happened with Taylor Frankie Paul.
5 min read - Style
The man at the center of the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ movement
Jesse Williams, Alicia Keys, and Swizz Beatz to produce documentary “Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story.” Long before the
4 min read - Health
The silent health crisis facing Black men Over 40—and why it’s often caught too late
Heart disease, diabetes and prostate cancer disproportionately affect Black men—but mistrust, cost and delayed checkups often stand in the way
6 min read - World
As Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, it's borrowing from Ukraine's playbook
Trump says Iran's navy is "gone," so how does it still have a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz? Part of the answer may lie off Ukraine's Black Sea coast.
4 min readCBS News
- Politics
USDA cuts to $300M land-buying grant further starves Black farmers: ‘White-only America’
John Boyd, president and founder of the National Black Farmers Association, called the Trump administration’s latest anti-DEI cuts “deplorable.” The
4 min read - US
The presence of many Black ICE agents at airports sparks political debate
“I do think that there is a deliberate effort to try to make Black agents, and Black women in particular,
1324 min read - US
Group's report highlights how guns in the US get from legitimate stores to crime scenes
All were carried out with guns that were among hundreds bought in the South and trafficked north to cities with some of the nation’s strictest firearms laws, according to court documents gathered by the group Everytown for Gun Safety. The group’s new report illuminates a key way that guns go from legitimate store shelves to crime scenes: people, known as straw purchasers, buy weapons legally and resell them on the black market. The report traces more than 250 guns bought over the course of three years from nearly two dozen stores in the Academy Sports + Outdoors chain, one of several gun sellers where convicted straw purchasers bought guns.
5 min read - Celebrity
HBO 'Harry Potter' Star Opens Up On Racist Death Threats Since Being Cast As Severus Snape
Paapa Essiedu is set to be the first Black actor to portray the Hogwarts professor in a major adaptation of the iconic books.
3 min read - Politics
Legal Scholar Says Black People ‘Will Lose’ On SCOTUS Voting Rights Decision: Here’s Why The Timing Matters
A prominent Black legal scholar is sounding the alarm ahead of a major Supreme Court decision that could reshape voting rights, and potentially the 2026 midterm elections.
3 min read - World
After years of grief, trial opens over Greek rail disaster that killed college students
A criminal trial opened in Greece Monday over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them college students, in a disaster that horrified the country and revealed long-neglected safety failures. The crash occurred at Tempe in northern Greece after a passenger train was placed on the wrong track, into the path of an oncoming freight train — an astonishing lapse on a rudimentary rail network. Riot police formed a cordon around the court as several hundred demonstrators gathered outside and victims' relatives, many dressed in black, arrived to attend the hearings.
2 min read - Celebrity
‘Tyler Perry’s Beauty In Black’ Star Xavier Smalls Apologizes To LGBTQ People After Viral, Controversial Remarks
Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black star Xavier Smalls has issued an apology to LGBTQ people after he faced widespread backlash for remarks he made on social media.
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