During both of President Donald Trump’s presidencies, he has often sparred with Black women journalists. From Yamiche Alcindor to April Ryan, Jemele Hill, and Abby Phillip, Trump has, on several occasions, referred to them as “second-rate” or “losers” for merely asking pertinent questions about his own actions. Alcindor and Ryan were frequent

Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty On Mother’s Day, James Talarico unveiled a sweeping policy proposal aimed at addressing the maternal health crisis in the United States, with a particular focus on supporting pregnant and postpartum Black women and reducing the alarming racial disparities in maternal mortality rates. According to

Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty Within a span of roughly 12 hours on Saturday, WNBA player Caitlin Clark shoved one of her opponents during a game, cursed at that same player on another play, and accused her of “flopping all f-ing day,” shot a mere 22% from 3-point range, lost

Source: Joe Jurado / Joe Jurado Editor’s Note: This tribute to Joe’s mama was supposed to run on Sunday, but did not publish due to a technical issue. We are running it today because Joe’s mama deserves. It’s been a week, y’all. The Iran war has no end in sight,

Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty Last month, the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act through its ruling on Louisiana v. Callais. As a result of that ruling, several red states have already moved to implement redistricting efforts that would disenfranchise Black voters. Below are the states that are

Source: Brandon Bell / Getty – APRIL 19: Syrnerica Pugh is comforted while grieving the death of her nieces and nephews in the Shreveport mass shooting on April 19, 2026. Community members in Shreveport, Louisiana, came together in heartbreak and solidarity to honor the lives of eight children killed in

Source: Luke Johnson / Getty Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser came to Howard University on Saturday, trying to graduate herself from City Hall, as if she and the class of 2026 were walking the same stage.  But those students were not fooled. They were not there to be props in

In 2017, Tamron Hall made the bold decision to walk away from her seat on the coveted “Today Show.” Though she launched her own successful talk show years later, Hall’s decision to walk was a pivotal moment in her career. In a recent conversation with Scott Evans, the journalist opened

Source: ITRartwork / Getty White conservatives think we’re being inflammatory when we say the Trump administration is a white supremacist organization. In truth, we’re not even being hyperbolic. At the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division saw a mass exodus of more than 100 attorneys, who