By Habiba Katsha, HuffPost UK The historic statistic that Black women in the UK are five times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, even in the 21st century, is often repeated – but no less shocking each time you hear it. That these numbers have “improved” marginally – Black women are now […]
By Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter The Beauty of Blackness, a documentary currently streaming exclusively on HBO Max, chronicles the rise — and revival — of one of the American beauty industry’s most historic brands: Fashion Fair Cosmetics. First launched in 1973 by Eunice Johnson, publishing executive and wife of Johnson Publishing Company CEO […]
London, United Kingdom – June 13, 2018: Rihanna attends the ‘Ocean’s 8’ UK Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square in London, UK. (Shutterstock) By David Caplan, WINS Radio New York NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Rihanna has given birth to her first child, a boy with rapper A$AP Rocky, TMZ reported Thursday. The couple has yet […]
Buffalo, New York-May 21, 2022: Memorial with flowers and candles to honor the victims of the mass shooting at the Tops market in Buffalo NY. A police SUV is turning the corner in the background. (Shutterstock) By Chris Kenning and Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY BUFFALO, N.Y. – A day after a white gunman in military […]
Editorial credit: Marlin360 / Shutterstock.com By Joey Garrison, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said “white supremacy is a poison” and vowed “hate will not prevail” during a trip Tuesday to Buffalo, New York, where he grieved with family members of 10 victims killed Saturday in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket. […]
By Edward Mcallister and Cooper Inveen, Reuters DAKAR/ACCRA, May 18 (Reuters) – It’s noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a […]
By Karen Greene Braithwaite, as told to Lynnette Nicholas, Reader’s Digest When I was growing up in the late 1970s, I didn’t learn the full truth about America’s history from my teachers. Back then, you only got bits and pieces of America’s past. It wasn’t until college that I became more informed. When the Declaration […]
By Stephen T. Watson , Lou Michel, Buffalo News Law enforcement officials who investigate mass shootings sometimes struggle to to find out what led the assailant to commit such heinous crimes. In the case of the man who they say perpetrated Saturday’s assault that took the lives of 10 people and wounded three more, they […]
Washington, DC, USA / November 7, 2020. People gather at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House to celebrate after Joe Biden is announced President-Elect. (Shutterstock) By Domenico Montanaro, NPR Following the shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., focus has been trained on the “replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory. That’s because a white […]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – AUGUST 21, 2017: Protesting against white supremacy and racism in downtown Chicago after the tragedy in Charlottesville. (Shutterstock) Washington, DC – Following the white supremacist killings in Buffalo, we highlighted how the gunman’s online manifesto included Great Replacement Theory and “invasion” language that echoed those of Republican candidates and elected officials, and called them […]