‘Everything isn’t comedy’: Lil Rel Howery sounds off on Tony Hinchliffe’s George Floyd joke during Kevin Hart roast
Comedian Lil Rel Howery has spent a time or two roasting someone, whether in his neighborhood, cutting his teeth in Chicago comedy or on stage for his specials. But after watching “The Roast of Kevin Hart,” Howery had time to address a few things he found of ill taste. In a three-minute video uploaded to […]
The legacy behind Tiffany Haddish’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover
Tiffany Haddish is seeing some of her wildest dreams realized. On Tuesday, May 12, Sports Illustrated revealed the 46-year-old comedian as the latest cover model for its annual Swimsuit Issue, alongside Hilary Duff, social media star Alix Earle, and Canadian model Nicole Williams English. Haddish appears on the cover, photographed along the beaches of Loreto, […]
Trump insults yet another Black female reporter over cost of White House ballroom: ‘You dumb person!’
President Donald Trump hurled personal insults at yet another Black female reporter after she questioned him about the cost of his major renovations to the White House and the National Mall. While taking questions at the White House on Tuesday, before heading to China for a consequential bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping, Trump lost […]
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry Says Tossing More Than 40,000 Legal Votes Is ‘No Big Deal’ And ‘Not My Fault’
Source: Erika Goldring / Getty Last month, we reported that Louisiana Republicans decided to postpone the state’s congressional primaries amid the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which resulted in the blocking of a Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana just weeks before the election. And in doing so, the Louisiana […]
Virginia Republican Defends Herself After Condoning Racist ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark From Right-Wing Host
Source: Alex Wong / Getty Here’s the thing: the GOP has a casual racism problem. To be sure, it has an overt racism problem as well — and our current president is the MAGA grand wizard in charge when it comes to fostering it — but the tendency for Republican officials to end up drowning […]
Black authors write bestsellers. So why aren’t they on more lists? BLK Bestsellers founder Troy Johnson has answers
Troy Johnson has been fighting for Black books since before most people knew what a website was. In 1997, the Harlem-raised entrepreneur sat down to teach himself e-commerce and ended up building something far more enduring, the African American Literature Book Club, better known as AALBC, now one of the most trusted independent platforms for […]
Georgia man sentenced after pleading guilty to theft tied to unreleased Beyoncé music
A Georgia man accused of stealing unreleased music and confidential tour materials connected to Beyoncé has pleaded guilty and been sentenced in connection with the 2025 theft. According to WDRW, Kelvin Evans pleaded guilty to entering an automobile with the intent to commit theft and criminal trespass. The plea came after Evans had previously rejected […]
EXCLUSIVE: Twenty years later, Raheem DeVaughn is still showing R&B artists how ownership works
There’s a certain kind of artist Black music fans protect with their whole chest. The ones whose music became part of the rhythm of our lives. The ones playing through dorm rooms, road trips, late-night phone calls, basement kickbacks, and slow dances at the family reunion. The ones whose albums lived in CD binders, LimeWire […]
NBA player Brandon Clarke dead at 29
The NBA world was stunned Tuesday after learning Brandon Clarke, a seven-year veteran for the Memphis Grizzlies, died on Monday. He was 29. A cause of death was not revealed. A first-round pick in 2019, Clarke spent his entire career with the Grizzlies after being drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder, then having his draft […]
Free Speech In ‘America’ Has Never Fully Belonged To Black People
Source: Gado / Getty Free speech in America has never fully belonged to Black Americans. The tools used to silence us have changed in how they appear over time, but the logic underneath them hasn’t. In 1740, the South Carolina Negro Act codified white supremacy and made it a crime to teach an enslaved Black […]