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In a video posted to his Instagram account, comedian, actor, and Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah recounted a terrifying experience he recently had with the LAPD. As he was exercising in Tarzana around Ventura Boulevard and Corbin Avenue back in April, Pharoah said that multiple police officers pulled up near him with guns drawn to detain him. “I see an officer to […]
Warner Bros. has made a number of changes to its release date calendar. The studio announced Friday that Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller Tenet will now set to hit theaters on July 31. The film was originally scheduled to premiere on July 17; however, Deadline reports Warner Bros. will instead screen Nolan’s Inception on that day in celebration of its 10-year anniversary. “We’re […]
The Trump administration has scrapped Obama-era healthcare protections for members of the LGBTQ community, according to NPR. On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it had finalized a rule that will effectively reverse a policy that prohibited health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients. The original 2016 rule—Section 1557 of Obamacare—expanded protections by […]
Last week, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian handed in his letter of resignation from the board and asked that his company replace him with a Black candidate to add more diversity. On Wednesday afternoon, it appears the digital forum giant took his advice to heart. Michael Seibel, CEO of a Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, has now become the first Black board member […]
The road signs on Penny Lane in Liverpool have been defaced because of the street name’s alleged connection to a slave merchant. On Thursday night, someone sprayed painted over the word “Penny” on the road sign. The street name is most notably remembered from the song by The Beatles that shares its namesake. Liverpool’s International Slavery […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed an extensive legislative package that aims to prevent police misconduct and hold New York officers more accountable. The measures, which were approved by the state’s legislature earlier this week, included a ban on police chokeholds as well as a repeal of statute 50-a, a decades-old law that kept officer’s disciplinary records hidden from […]
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of a 24-year-old black man whose body was found hanging from a tree earlier this week in Palmdale, California. City Manager J.J. Murphy addressed the tragedy in a statement on Thursday, describing Robert Fuller’s death as a possible suicide related to the COVID-19 crisis: “Many people […]
HBO‘s efforts to clear up confusion has, ironically, left many customers even more confused. OK, let’s take a deep breath before we dive into this. According to The Hollywood Reporter, WarnerMedia announced Friday that it was streamlining its offerings of HBO apps by phasing out HBO Go and a rebranding of HBO Now simply as HBO. The news comes just […]
Despite everything else going on in the world, Lil Wayne has still managed to stay consistent in delivering his increasingly successful and interesting Young Money Radio every Friday afternoon. In episode 7 of the radio show last week, Wayne was joined by Killer Mike, Washington D.C Mayor Muriel Bowser, Chris Paul, Snoop Dogg, Bun B, and Stephen Jackson to […]
Kristen Bell has been slammed for writing a children’s book that promotes being colorblind instead of recognizing actual people of different races and ethnicities. The book, The World Needs More Purple People, focuses on a “purple person” who “looks for similarities before differences.” In a video posted by the Associated Press, the actress and author said, […]
