Former President Barack Obama traveled to Texas to boost the campaign of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, who is facing a contentious election this November that will determine control of Congress in 2027. America’s first Black president visited a local Austin restaurant with Talarico and another

Jason Collins, who served as a global ambassador for basketball after coming out as the NBA’s first openly gay player, died Tuesday from an aggressive form of brain cancer. He was 47. First diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma in 2025, Collins traveled to China for experimental treatments not yet authorized

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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