For 17-year-old Gabriel Carothers of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Black History Month is not about the past because he’s making it in real time. When the teenager turned 17, he made history as the state’s youngest African-American licensed pilot. “I wasn’t really thinking about making history, […]
Source: screenshot / Twitter Family members of the victims who were killed during the Buffalo mass shooting spoke during state sentencing for Payton Gendron, the man sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 10 people May 14, 2022. During the tense […]
Taco Store Customer Shoots Robber – screenshot *Houston police have questioned and released a man who shot a robber nine times at a taco restaurant on Thursday (Jan. 5). The incident occurred at Ranchito #4 Taqueria in southwest Houston and was captured on surveillance […]
Bates, co-founder of the Arkansas State Press newspaper, was a mentor to the nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. A statue of late civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates is one step closer to being completed and replacing an image […]
*(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 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 […]
The increase of hate crimes against the Black community has been an ongoing concern. Though, to me, the most despicable aspect of the spike is that some of the most hateful acts used to threaten Black people during the Jim Crow era have now resurfaced. Axel C. Cox, 24, certainly […]
When Nedra ‘Neddy’ Calloway first met Kevin Sterling Jones, she thought that he was a little quiet. In fact, she nicknamed him “the weirdo” because of it. A friendship soon blossomed between the two until things took a turn. In a video Calloway shared on TikTok, she says […]
Did Did you know one of the fathers of modern-day gaming was a Black man? Well, if you didn’t, now you know, and Google is honoring the late pioneer with a fitting Google Doodle. Thursday, December 1, the Google Doodle honors Gerald “Jerry” Lawson on what […]
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