Just weeks after kicking off the 2024-25 school year, Howard University students faced on-and-of power and water outages on campus. Many students were without hot water, air conditioning and working elevators, while others noted being unable to do laundry and access Wi-Fi. “Waking up, it’s like a blackout. There’s no lights in the stairwell. I’m […]
Topicals, a widely popular, Black-owned skincare brand, says that folks who went on a recent brand trip in France faced racism and Islamophobia at a French spa. According to Topicals, 20 Black and brown creators from England and the U.S. were allegedly discriminated against at QC Terme Spa. The trip comes just as Topicals is […]
While receiving the American Icon Award at the Fashion Group International Night of Stars event, Whoopi Goldberg reflected on the criticism she faced for the red carpet look she wore at the 1993 Oscars. “It hurt my feelings. It kept me from dressing up for a very long time,” the EGOT winner told Page Six in an interview on Tuesday. […]
(BPRW) Meet the entrepreneur who faced abuse and poverty before becoming the richest Jamaican-born woman Trisha Bailey’s memoir, “Unbroken,” tells how maintaining grace in the face of trauma launched her to unimaginable wealth and joy. (Black PR Wire) In the last decade, Trisha Bailey has turned a small medical supply business in Orlando, Florida, into an […]
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A majority Black neighborhood in Illinois is using legal action after raw sewage allegedly discharged by a water utility company has polluted their communities for years. In late July, a lawsuit filed against water utility company Commonfields of Cahokia and Cahokia Heights on behalf of Centreville Citizens for Change. Cahokia Heights, a Black suburb located […]
Minnesota’s attorney general has asked the judge who oversaw former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial to modify language in his sentencing memo. Keith Ellison says the current wording minimizes the trauma experienced by minors, two of which were Black, who witnessed Chauvin kill George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Judge Peter Cahill stated in the […]
North Carolina Superior Court Judge Jeffery B. Foster, who refuses to release footage of police killing Andrew Brown Jr., also believes that George Zimmerman shouldn’t have been charged in the killing Trayvon Martin in 2012. The judgment’s sentiment was exposed when The Root uncovered his previous Facebook posts. “George Zimmerman was found not guilty of all […]
Justin “Brick” Howze and Gage Crismond, two friends who were hit with racial slurs while surfing at Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles, are now leading a movement to create a safe space for Black surfers. The troubling episode that sparked the movement happened this year on Presidents’ Day, according to Los Angeles Times. Brick, a 24-year-old musician, […]