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by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman November 25, 2025 The actress spoke of her stifling role options after winning the coveted award. Lupita Nyong’o is getting real about her acting career since winning an Oscar in 2013 for 12 Years A Slave. The acclaimed actress, who won the Academy Award for her captivating

A young Black woman in the U.K. says she was dismissed by doctors four separate times before finally being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer — and only after she lied to get the tests she needed. Nothando Nhliziyo, a 22-year-old hairstylist from Leicester, England, is now speaking out and urging

Former NBA player Rick Fox announced he will run for a legislative seat in the Bahamas in next year’s general election. His candidacy comes as the archipelago struggles with high-profile corruption cases, an influx of people entering the country illegally and ongoing recovery from Hurricane Dorian, a devastating Category 5 storm that hit

Shortly after a Chicago mother and her son were attacked by a group of teens, another mother and her children were assaulted by a group of juveniles in Cambridge, Maryland. Lakesha Graves says she and her daughters were attacked by a mob of students who allegedly intentionally got on the

After videos of Black women in labor being refused care by hospitals across the country went viral, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) is seeking change. On Tuesday (Nov. 25), Kelly introduced the WELLS Act, or the Women Expansion for Learning and Labor Safety Act. The bill is named after Mercedes Wells,

Actor and comedian Mike Epps was recently at the center of growing criticism on social media after sharing his views on Black communities’ large celebrations of prison releases and reliance on food stamps. On Monday, the comedian took to social media to clarify the comments he sats were misunderstood.  “I

In the wake of a Maryland foster teen’s suicide inside a Baltimore hotel, the state’s Department of Human Services says it has met its deadline to remove all foster children from hotel placements across the state. On Monday, Nov. 24, the agency told The Washington Post it had successfully found

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is leading a Democratic Party outcry against the Trump administration‘s major cuts to a decades-old program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that works to reduce homelessness in the United States. The longtime congresswoman and ranking member of the House Financial

In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was wrongfully beaten to death and lynched in Mississippi. And for years after his passing, people, the state, and institutions tried to hide the truth behind his murder. Now, 70 years later, another piece of his story has been purchased for the sake of preserving

The legacies of the late and famous father and daughter music icons, Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole, are living on at Berklee College of Music. On Tuesday, Nov. 25, Berklee announced the first awardee of its newly established Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole Scholarship Fund, Paris Pineyro, a