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Civil rights activists gathered outside the headquarters of Target Corp. on Thursday to call for a national boycott of the retailing giant over its decision to phase out its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Target announced last Friday that it would join competitor Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back their

A jury watched video Wednesday of a police investigator telling the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery that he wasn’t being arrested soon after he, along with his father and a neighbor, chased and killed the Black man after spotting him running in their neighborhood. “You’re going home today,” Glynn County police

Prosecutors added details to their indictment against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs on Thursday, saying the hip-hop star scheduled for a May trial is accused of sex trafficking at least three women and of once dangling someone off a hotel balcony during a two-decade racketeering conspiracy. The refreshed indictment was filed in Manhattan federal

Ibram X. Kendi, the leading scholar on anti-racist research and author of the bestseller “How to Be An Antiracist,” is set to join the faculty of Howard University before the fall 2025 semester, according to the Washington Post. Howard University, also known as “The Mecca,” is a pre-eminent historically Black

On a recent episode of his podcast, “The Why with Dwyane Wade,” NBA Hall of Famer and Miami Heat legend, Dwyane Wade, shared that in 2023, he had a health issue that led to a significant discovery for he and his family.   On the January 30 episode of Wade’s podcast,

Black elected officials are condemning President Donald Trump‘s remarks on Thursday in which he blamed DEI hiring for the deadly Washington, D.C., airport collision of an American Airlines plane and Army helicopter. The Democratic leaders say that rather than bringing the country together and focusing the attention on the 67

As President Donald Trump‘s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, gets grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday for his confirmation hearing, civil rights groups are sounding the alarm about his qualifications and warning of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s past abuses against Black leaders and other citizens. In

When Marsai Martin launched her own series on the Disney Channel and Disney + in 2023 — and when it was canceled within the same year — she learned firsthand just how challenging it can be for Black-led shows to survive. During a recent appearance on Keke Palmer’s “Baby, This

As A$AP Rocky’s felony assault case continues in Los Angeles, a few of his peers in hip-hop have begun to weigh in on the matter.  Rocky is currently facing two felony assault charges for allegedly attempting to shoot at a former friend and collaborator, Terell Ephron, known by the moniker

Super Bowl 59 is set to kick off this weekend, and you have to be living under a rock not to know Kendrick Lamar is headlining. On Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, the Philadelphia Eagles will take on the Kansas City Chiefs in a rematch of Super Bowl 57, this time