Thurman initially thought he was hearing noise from the music. But he realized what was happening when he heard another shot and saw the flash of a gun muzzle. Thurman said he ran to a dressing room with another person and hid. The survivors in the dressing room turned off the lights and lay on […]
As Blavity previously reported, Lewis died last year at age 80. Earlier this year, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners in Georgia approved a resolution to erect a statue for the civil rights champion, deciding to place the monument on the same ground where a Confederate statue previously stood. “John was a giant of a man, with a humble […]
Johnniqua Charles went viral last year after she was captured on a video singing defiantly to a police officer “You about to lose your job.” The song was remixed and used during protests against police violence across the nation. To mark the one-year anniversary of her shining moment on Thursday, Charles went to Instagram and […]
Speaking with BuzzFeed last year, Charles said she was homeless and dealing with a drug addiction while doing sex work to survive. The South Carolina resident had also lost contact with her family, who were taking care of her 3-year-old son. But the viral moment changed everything. “I’d been on the streets, and they’d been […]
Chatting it up with LeBron James, Bad Bunny and several other big-name celebrities on the season premiere of The Shop: Uninterrupted, Jay-Z reflected on the time he boycotted the Grammys. The topic came up when Jay-Z was asked to talk about the legacy of DMX, TMZ reported. “The first time I boycotted the Grammys was for him,” the […]
Darnella Frazier, the young lady who recorded George Floyd’s killing last year, reflected in a moving statement on what life has been like in the past 365 days. “A year ago, today I witnessed a murder,” the 18-year-old said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “The victim’s name was George Floyd. Although this wasn’t the […]
Veteran journalist April D. Ryan has seen quite a bit in her career that spans three decades, but nothing would prove more jarring than the four consecutive years she spent as a White House correspondent working to provide clarity and objectivity in the dark and trying times of the Trump administration. “There’s always retaliation in the White House. If they […]
As Black History Month reminds so many Americans of just how far Black people have come, it also prompts reflections on the storied past of the ancestors — of the nation that they built, brutally and without thanks. For playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith, the month conjures up memories of a time of assassinated Black […]