Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died on Thursday at the age of 82. Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital, where Pele was undergoing treatment, said he died at 3:27 p.m. […]
A 17-year-old student endured constant racist harassment at her predominantly white school in Texas, and when she fought back, the student was sent to an alternative program where she would have to wear an orange jumpsuit, driving the girl to be hospitalized in a mental […]
More and more Black women are unapologetically flaunting their Black hairstyles in their work environments. Fionnghuala “Fig” O’Reilly is a 29-year-old Black engineer making an impact in the STEM industry as she sports her braided hair in the science lab. According to Yahoo Life, O’Reilly, born to an American […]
Source: Frazer Harrison / Getty Update: His wife, fellow dancer Allison Holker, confirmed his death via a statement to PEOPLE: “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us. Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He […]
*(CNN) — A Libyan man accused of being involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988 made an initial court appearance Monday in a federal court in Washington, DC, where he was formally charged in […]
*Get your snacks and libations and settle in for some spicy Social Heat. It seems like “BMF” star Lil Meech, government name Demetrius Flenory Jr., is taking his role on the hit show a bit too far. The actor was taken into custody when security at the […]
A brave football coach, Ben Becker, 20, is in the hospital with critical gunshot wounds after shielding his team from a drive-by in Jacksonville, Florida. Sadly, a young boy named Prince Holland was killed in the shooting. Family, friends, and members of the community gathered Friday night to […]
Arguably one of the most important Black figures in the feminist movement has died. Dorothy Pitman Hughes passed away on December 1 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Delethia and Jonas Malmsten in Tampa, Florida. She was 84 years old. Born in 1938 in Lumpkin, Georgia, Hughes […]
Tulsa and Rosewood are the places that rush to mind when people think of the recent brutal, forced displacement of people of color. What about Palm Springs, Calif.? City officials and land developers, looking to capitalize on rising land values, colluded to forcibly remove hundreds of Black and […]
A depiction of an auction where an enslaved person is sold. In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the remainder of their games for the same reason. Players on both teams participated in troublesome acts of racism. In October 2022, Amador […]
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