Liberation Station, the Black-owned children’s book store in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, is being forced to shut down after nearly a year in business — during which the store received numerous death threats. As Blavity previously reported, Victoria Scott-Miller, a Black entrepreneur, opened Liberation Station alongside her husband, Duane Miller, in June 2023. They celebrated […]
The FBI and law enforcement in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, launched an investigation after an NCAA women’s basketball team said they were racially harassed during their stay in the city. The Utah basketball team was staying in Idaho to compete in an NCAA tournament in Spokane, Washington. 1. Several teams were housed at hotels in Coeur […]
Opal Lee, the 97-year-old civil rights activist who was forced to leave her family’s Texas home 80 years ago when a racist mob damaged the property, has now received the same land as a gift. Lee is receiving the land from Habitat for Humanity, which builds affordable housing in communities across the U.S. The Texas […]
Steve Kerr details why he took Stephen Curry out of the game late in the 4th quarter in Game 3 of the 2022 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics. ☑️ Subscribe to ESPN+: https://plus.espn.com/ 📱Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn 🏀 Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2yxs3Og ☑️Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ☑️Watch […]
Chaos unfolded at the Rolling Loud Festival in Miami on Friday. Rowdy fans, who were demanding to see Kanye West, forced Kid Cudi to walk off stage, RollingStone reports. Cudi was performing on stage when fans hit him in the face with what appears to be a bottle. Video posted to social media showed the outraged […]
Elissa Wall grew up in Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect and was forced into an arranged marriage with her cousin at age 14. Finally, at the age of 17, Elissa escaped her marriage. Elissa’s testimony, detailing her forced marriage, helped finally put self-proclaimed polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs behind bars. In 2008, Elissa shared her chilling story […]
A deaf Black woman was handcuffed in North Las Vegas in front of her children while the girls were asked to interpret for police. Video of the encounter has caused outrage across the nation. Andrea “Dre” Hollingsworth told FOX 5 Las Vegas, she started livestreaming on Facebook during her incident with North Las Vegas Police […]
A deaf Black woman was handcuffed in North Las Vegas in front of her children while the girls were asked to interpret for police. Video of the encounter has caused outrage across the nation. Andrea “Dre” Hollingsworth told FOX 5 Las Vegas, she started livestreaming on Facebook during her incident with North Las Vegas Police […]
Former high school student Mari Oliver, who is Black, had “exercised her constitutional right to decline to participate in the Pledge.” A Texas teacher who attempted to force a student to write the Pledge of Allegiance has settled a lawsuit with the former high school student for $90,000. American Atheists represented the nonreligious student, confirmed […]
A California woman was going home on a Delta flight to the Bay Area after visiting family in Atlanta when she was asked to move to a seat at the back of the plane to satisfy two white passengers. The white passengers claimed to have bought a first-class tickets for the flight, but couldn’t produce […]