Lauryn Bass
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MTV’s Family Legacy is back, and this season is giving fans a fresh look at hip-hop royalty through the eyes of their children, including Method Man’s illustrious offspring, Cheyenne Smith and PXWER. Streaming on Paramount+ starting March 25, the docuseries pulls from exclusive MTV archives and features new interviews with the kids of music […]
Election week chaos wasn’t limited to the polls, according to viral videos of teen Trump supporters swarming their school with racist rioting. Fox 11 LA reports Black students and a teacher at Beverly Hills High School are calling out racism that allegedly turned their school into a battleground. From racial slurs and KKK-like mobs […]
Chileeeeeeeeee. *Sighs in deep negro spiritual* Look, we don’t even feel like mentioning what we already know. As if the election results rolling in didn’t already set off emotions on a high, of course, Atlanta found its way into the mix. Basically though, a video of a mural of Vice President Kamala Harris being painted […]
One Killed, Others Injured in Deadly Shooting at Historic Tuskegee Homecoming TUSKEGEE, Ala. – A tragic shooting during Tuskegee University’s 100th homecoming celebration early Sunday morning left one person dead and several others injured, including students. Authorities are working to piece together the events surrounding the chaotic scene on the historic campus. Shooting Erupts at […]
The FBI has officially launched an investigation into the death of Dennoriss Richardson, a 39-year-old Black man who was found hanging in an abandoned house in Colbert County, Alabama. According to the Associated Press, this investigation began after a request from Sheriff Eric Balentine, who stated that while his department was confident in its initial […]
A federal jury has taken a long-awaited step towards justice in the case of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman fatally shot during a botched police raid in 2020. AP reports that on Friday, a jury convicted Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police officer, of violating Taylor’s civil rights by recklessly firing shots into her […]
Michelle Sets Michigan Crowd Ablaze With The Stakes Of The 2024 Election: ‘A Vote For Him Is A Vote Against Us!’ Michelle Obama came in for the kill in Kalamazoo with a speech that effortlessly ethered Donald Trump’s infinite “incompetence”: “When the American people fired him from a job that was too big for him… […]
Who is the “Black Insurrectionist?” The social media account known as “Black Insurrectionist,” which stirred up 2024 election conspiracy theories that Donald Trump “loves” has finally been unmasked as a white man named Jason G. Palmer. “Everybody wants to be a…” Well, you know how the saying goes. According to The Associated Press, Palmer operated […]
Disruption is key to making a mark and changing the narrative around Black creatives and the CEO of a skincare meets makeup line is up to the task. Over the weekend, the 2024 ESSENCE Girls United Disruptor Summit took place in Atlanta and it was nothing short of a celebration of culture and empowerment, marking […]
A Michigan judge is making national news after she was recorded making defamatory remarks about Black people and using homophobic language. Judge Kathleen Ryan, who has served as Oakland County’s Chief Probate Pro Tem Judge for over 13 years, was removed from her courtroom after being exposed by a court administrator who was fed up […]