Laverne Cox shared a deeply traumatizing moment in her childhood where she was abandoned by her parents. Ahead of the release of her memoir, “Transcendent,” the “Orange Is the New Black” star revealed in an interview with People that she and her twin brother, Lamar, were dropped off at an

The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots.” Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote in a memo that access to “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” would be reinstated “effective immediately,” weeks after the news of its removal gained

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a Black Mississippi death row inmate who argued that racial bias tainted the jury selection process in his capital murder trial, according to the Associated Press. In a narrow 5-4 decision, the justices sided with Terry Pitchford, who was sentenced to

Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Earlier this month, we reported that President Donald Trump withdrew a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his tax returns getting leaked while the FBI was investigating him, and that, according to the Justice Department, in settling the case, Trump was granted a nearly

Source: Sun Sentinel / Getty Perhaps the highest court in the land feels bad for demolishing the Voting Rights Act. Maybe Clarence Thomas remembered he’s Black. Or, maybe even a group of people who are comfortable with doing Donald Trump’s bidding understand just how repugnant the NFL can be. Regardless,

Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured

As Black households disproportionately feel the financial squeeze of President Donald Trump‘s economy, two economic measurements released this week indicate things aren’t getting better anytime soon. On Thursday, the price index for consumer expenditures (PCE) rose to an annual rate of 3.8%, a nearly three-year high. According to the U.S.

Source: Michael Tullberg / Getty Rapper Young MC and Grammy-nominated singer Morris Day have officially withdrawn from President Trump’s Freedom 250 Festival in Washington, D.C., an event tied to the Great American State Fair celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary from June 25 through July 10, 2026. Meanwhile, C+ C Music

Source: Robert Prange / Getty I’m writing to you, Naomi Osaka and Taylor Townsend, as a Black woman who has spent the bulk of my career doing all I can to carve out spaces where Black people and stories get told and elevated. Along the way, I’ve come to understand