• Why Beyoncé protégées Chloe x Halle paused their second album release

    Why Beyoncé protégées Chloe x Halle paused their second album release

    Beyoncé protégées Chloe x Halle — the Grammy-nominated sister act of Chloe and Halle Bailey — pushed pause on the release of their second album, “Ungodly Hour,” originally scheduled to drop June 5, in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the resulting Black Lives Matter protests. “We’ve been really heartbroken by what’s been going …
  • Robert De Niro opens up about raising 6 biracial children

    Robert De Niro opens up about raising 6 biracial children

    Robert De Niro opened up in an interview Wednesday about raising his six biracial children amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. “My children are all half black and I don’t have … even me, I take certain things for granted,” the 76-year-old Oscar winner said on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “When people …
  • Stormzy donating £10M to black British causes over 10 years

    Stormzy donating £10M to black British causes over 10 years

    British rapper Stormzy is donating 10 million pounds (more than $12,590,000) to UK-based causes that empower black people over the next decade. “The uncomfortable truth that our country continuously fails to recognise and admit is that black people in the UK have been at a constant disadvantage in every aspect of life – simply due …
  • Celebs slammed for ‘cringey’ PSA about white privilege

    Celebs slammed for ‘cringey’ PSA about white privilege

    Is this Gal Gadot’s “Imagine” 2.0? A new celebrity-studded PSA for the “I Take Responsibility” campaign — featuring “influential voices from the white community [taking] responsibility for turning the racist tide in America” — is getting criticized online for its overly dramatic delivery and for stars “making this about” themselves. The black-and-white video starts out …
  • Stassi Schroeder’s podcast vanishes after ‘Vanderpump Rules’ firing

    Stassi Schroeder’s podcast vanishes after ‘Vanderpump Rules’ firing

    Stassi Schroeder’s podcast, “Straight Up With Stassi,” has been dropped by all major platforms after she was fired from “Vanderpump Rules” after making a false police report on her former castmate Faith Stowers. Radio.com released a statement Wednesday saying, “We recently learned of racially charged and inappropriate actions by Stassi Schroeder during one of her …
  • Libertarians Who Dismiss Social Justice Are Mistaken

    Libertarians Who Dismiss Social Justice Are Mistaken

    A just society requires just institutions. With the George Floyd killing and associated protests raising a number of issues involving race, the police, and state power that have long interested libertarians, the relationship between libertarian thought and calls for “social justice,” coming almost exclusively from the left, has found its way into the spotlight. Although …
  • Protesters of #BlackLivesMatter have drawn up a list of statues they want to see destroyed in the UK

    Protesters of #BlackLivesMatter have drawn up a list of statues they want to see destroyed in the UK

    Among the targets are monuments of former prime ministers, sea captains, pubs, street signs, and even a school and hospital. Monuments of former prime ministers such as William Gladstone and Sir Robert Peel, as well as English sea captains James Cook and Sir Francis Drake, are listed as targets. They feature on a website called …
  • Joan Smalls calls being black in the fashion industry ‘a constant battle’

    Joan Smalls calls being black in the fashion industry ‘a constant battle’

    Joan Smalls is calling for major change in the fashion industry. The Puerto Rican-born model, 31, is speaking out about discrimination she’s faced over the course of her career and calling on those who’ve pledged inclusivity to put tangible practices in place. In the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and more …
  • Kandi Burruss gets emotional telling 4-year-old son about police brutality

    Kandi Burruss gets emotional telling 4-year-old son about police brutality

    Kandi Burruss broke down while sharing a conversation she had with her 4-year-old son, Ace Tucker, about the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality. During Wednesday’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star explained that her toddler, who previously dressed up as a police officer for “Career …
  • America's history is scrubbed like that way

    America's history is scrubbed like that way

    For years, Democrats and those on the left have been trying to suppress America’s true history — the one that tells of American Exceptionalism, the one that speaks of the genius of the Founding Fathers, the one that speaks of freedoms for the individual as coming from God, not government. And now, with George Floyd, …