Pusha T And Pharrell Turn ‘Grindin’’ Into A Coffee Business
Pusha T. (Momodu Mansaray/Getty Images) by Selena Hill September 15, 2026 The hip-hop stars are taking the spirit of their iconic 2002 hit from the studio to the coffee aisle. Pusha T and Pharrell Williams are taking “Grindin’” from the recording studio to the breakfast table. The longtime collaborators have launched Grindin Coffee in partnership […]
Trump Calls AI Warnings A ‘HOAX’ While Industry Leaders, Including Elon Musk, Say Otherwise [Op-Ed]
Source: Kristian Buus / Getty In today’s episode of The Only Good Idiocracy Is A Dead Idiocracy, President Donald Trump and his administration of professional know-nothings are determined to push artificial intelligence as the future of U.S. industries, even as AI experts warn it could be destroying the world. They want the AI industry to […]
‘I apologize’: Texas Rep. Venton Jones addresses Black women after backlash over Chris Brown recognition
The social blowback from Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and State Rep. Vernon Jones honoring Chris Brown during the Dallas stop of the “R&B Tour” has prompted Jones to apologize. During a conversation with Don Lemon for Lemon’s morning show on Tuesday, Jones, whose seat Crockett formerly represented in the Texas state house before going on […]
Howard University Appoints Carole Boyce-Davies, 1st Endowed Chair In Caribbean Studies
(Photo: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) by Sidnee Michelle September 15, 2026 Boyce-Davies is chair and professor of African Diaspora Literatures in Howard’s Department of Literature and Writing. Howard University has named Trinidadian-born scholar Carole Boyce-Davies as the inaugural Eric Eustace Williams, Ph.D., Endowed Chair in Caribbean Studies, expanding the historically Black university’s […]
Tyler Perry says he won’t get married: ‘It’s not the marriage that bothers me, it’s the divorce’
Tyler Perry has spent much of his career putting marriage, relationships and the complications of love at the center of his stories. But the filmmaker says watching those stories play out on screen may have helped convince him that marriage is not for him. Perry, 57, recently opened up about his decision while promoting “Why […]
Redefining Suicide Awareness Beyond The Myth Of The Unbreakable Black Woman [Op-Ed]
Source: Liubomyr Vorona / Getty September marks National Suicide Awareness Month, giving an opportunity to have public conversations about mental health crises and suicide intervention. The most dangerous form of despair in the Black community is often the most invisible and defined by a slow, passive surrender where we simply stop fighting for our own […]
#EmmysSoWhite returns as Black actors face another night of few televised acting wins
As the Primetime Emmys aired last night, social media users couldn’t help but notice an all-too-familiar pattern among the winners: Black actors were largely shut out of the acting categories presented during the telecast. By the end of the night, the hashtag #EmmysSoWhite was trending once again. The hashtag first gained traction in 2021, a […]
Centering Black Women And Women Of Color In The Child Care Debate [Op-Ed]
Source: Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty The Trump administration recently proposed allowing married, single-income households to draw from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), but the proposal ignores the reality of many Black women and women of color. The premise underlying the “parent-based care” option is that staying home is a choice equally available to […]
Floyd Mayweather’s daughter Yaya ordered to pay $50 million over 2020 stabbing
Iyanna “Yaya” Mayweather has been ordered to pay more than $50 million to Lapattra Jacobs over the 2020 stabbing that followed a confrontation involving rapper NBA YoungBoy. A Harris County, Texas, judge awarded Jacobs a total of $50,105,000 in damages, bringing a years-long legal dispute tied to the incident back into the spotlight. TMZ reported […]
Supreme Court Upholds Block On Trump’s Mail-In Voting Executive Order [Op-Ed]
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty We can all breathe a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court has upheld a block against President Donald Trump’s executive order that would’ve significantly restricted mail-in voting. AP reports that the Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling on Monday night. In a 7-2 decision, the Court found that the […]