While Black Lives Matter sympathizers were brutally beating and robbing Marine Veteran Christopher Marquez, another Marine, 35-year-old Michael Schroeder, had been beaten and left for dead in another part of Washington D.C.
Women, people of color, and people who identify as LGBT will be treated to discounted tickets at the upcoming Cinder Block Comedy Festival in New York City, while straight white men have to pay more to attend.
Wednesday’s episode of Black-ish confronts police brutality in America, the criminal justice system, and the difficult discussions and decisions every black parent must face in a country where “the system is rigged against us.”
Black Lives Matter agitators stormed into a private fundraiser in South Carolina Wednesday evening and demanded Hillary Clinton explain what she meant in 1996 when she said America needs to bring “no conscience, no empathy, superpredator gangs of kids to their heels.”
Hollywood A-list directors Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler and other black entertainers like singer Janelle Monae and comedian Hannibal Burress, among others, will host a #JUSTICEFORFLINT event during the broadcast of the 88th Academy Awards.
The Hill columnist Judy Kurtz asked several cast members of the hit Netflix series “House of Cards” who they are supporting for president.
Republican State Senator Patty Ritchie of New York introduced a bill that would prohibit food stamp recipients from using their benefits to buy lobster, steak, and candy bars.
One in two gay black men in America will be diagnosed with HIV over the course of their lifetime, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Marissa Jenae Johnson said the phrase “all lives matter” is a “new racial slur,” in a recent interview with Fox News national correspondent John Roberts.
Two suspects were arrested just days after surveillance video showed a decorated Marine veteran being brutally attacked by a group of black teenagers outside of a McDonald’s located in Washington, D.C.
During Monday’s “House of Cards” premiere at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, actor Kevin Spacey said little of the comparisons between his hit Netflix series and the current presidential race but did say that U.S. politics is “becoming a little bit more predictable” than what’s depicted on screen.
Filmmaker and New York native Spike Lee made his support for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders known in a radio ad released Tuesday morning.
When Disney’s “Girl Meets World” actress Rowan Blanchard interviewed Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards for Paper Magazine, the 14-year-old star called the woman running America’s largest abortion provider her “role model.”
Days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Georgetown Law Professor Gary Peller wrote in an email to his colleagues and Georgetown University Law Center Dean William M. Treanor that Justice Scalia “was a defender of privilege, oppression and bigotry, one whose intellectual positions were not brilliant but simplistic and formalistic.”
Nashville Public Library officials informed Nashville’s chapter of Black Lives Matter members that the group’s “open to black and non-black people of color only” meetings policy is prohibited on public property.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential war chest boasted a January haul of $130.4 million, thanks in part to A-list Hollywood luminaries like Mark Hamill, Goldie Hawn, Teri Hatcher, Alfre Woodard, and Chevy Chase, according to the latest FEC data calculated by Bloomberg.
Flanked by liberal legislatures like John Lewis and Black Lives Matter founders Brittany Packnett and DeRay Mckesson, President Obama told the room full of young militant leftists that they “are much better organizers” than he was at their age, and that he is “confident that they are going to take America to new heights.”
Hillary Clinton enlists actor Morgan Freeman, Hollywood’s “voice of God,” to narrate her latest campaign ad, entitled, “All The Good.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a room full of supporters Friday that if he were president, he “will do more for the African-American people in one year than Barack Obama has done in his seven year, soon to be eight years.”
In two years, New Orleans-based rapper Dee-1 went from being a student loan debt-ridden middle school teacher to a man with a major recording deal and a hit record pillorying his now-paid debt to Sally Mae.
During ESPN’s Black History Month coverage on Thursday, the network aired a segment called “Rise Up,” which enraged several viewers who took to Twitter to air their grievances.
Actor Kiefer Sutherland compared leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to former Alabama Governor George Wallace, a lifelong Democrat and a dedicated segregationist.
Suffolk County, New York residents are furious that a Black History Month poster the reads, “Stop The Violence. Black Lives Matter. Stop The Racism,” has been prominently displayed in a county courtroom.
Mark Hensch, a staff writer for The Hill, wrote an article tiltled, “Kiefer Sutherland: Trump recalls segregationist George Wallace,” in which Hensch wrote, “Actor Kiefer Sutherland sees similarities between GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace (R), one
Dawson, Georgia, Mayor Christopher Wright was implicated Wednesday during court testimony in the trial of a man accused of molesting and having sex with a young boy and a 12-year-old girl.
An obscure Sacramento, California, based hip-hip group named Blackalicious released a new music video showing footage of the police shooting of Walter Scott, New York City cops choking Eric Garner, and the Michael Brown crime scene in the few seconds of the three minute clip.
Decorated Marine veteran Christopher Marquez was eating dinner in Washington, D.C., last Friday, when, reportedly, he was viciously attacked by a gang of black teenagers, who asked the war hero if he believes black lives matter.
PBS aired its Stanley Nelson-directed documentary Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Tuesday evening, and the film became the fuel that launched #BlackPanthersPBS as a top trending topic on Instagram and Twitter.
PBS aired the Stanley Nelson-directed documentary Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Tuesday, which put a positive spin on the sordid history of one of America’s most infamous radical black nationalist groups.
Compton, California-based rapper Kendrick Lamar received praise from the Obama White House for his racially and politically charged performance at the 58th annual Grammy Awards where Lamar and his backup dancers sang the song “The Blacker The Berry,” clad in prison uniforms and chains.
Just when the world went back to ignoring Kanye West’s latest Twitter tantrum, the rapper continued his crass commentary by begging “white publications” to stop writing about “black music.”
While Hillary Clinton is looking to clinch the Democratic nomination with strong support from black voters in southern states, her husband Bill Clinton’s recent comments may end up alienating them.
Mere moments before his performance on Saturday Night Live and hours before his new album was available exclusively on Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s struggling streaming service TIDAL, Kanye West begged his 18 million Twitter followers to “Pray” that he “overcome” his massive debt obligations.
Oscar winning actor and Obama supporter Richard Dreyfuss fired back at his critics after he was attacked for being seen talking to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz backstage at a recent rally.
Actor, rapper, and Lip Sync Battle host LL Cool J defended Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance of the politically charged song, Formation, backed by dancers dressed as Black Panthers, saying “There’s always been some element of counterculture that has existed in music.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a far-left writer and a famous national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, has endorsed socialist Bernie Sanders for president.
Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn McCarrel shot himself Monday on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Bernie Sanders has a breakfast appointment Wednesday morning with MSNBC host and longtime Africa-American power-broker Al Sharpton. The two will reportedly meet Wednesday at the Harlem-based restaurant Sylvia’s, the same haunt that Sharpton chose when he sat down with then-Sen. Barack
The profanity-laced lyrics praising Red Lobster in Beyoncé’s anti-police song, “Formation,” have reportedly resulted in a windfall for the Florida-based seafood chain.
Asked what she thought of Beyoncé’s black power Super Bowl halftime show honoring Malcolm X, the former Nation of Islam leader’s daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, said she “absolutely loved it.”
