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DHS head Noem said NFL ‘won’t be able to sleep at night’ for choosing Bad Bunny for Super Bowl halftime show

The Department of Health Secretary Kristi Noem has weighed in on the NFL’s announcement that Bad Bunny will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show, and confirmed immigration agents will be there. Noem told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that ICE “will be all over that place.” Until now, the Trump Administration had not confirmed that ICE would be present at the Super Bowl. “We are going to enforce the law. You shouldn’t be coming to the Super Bowl unless you […]

October 5, 2025

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Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X walk in Actively Black Fashion Week show

In a New York Fashion Week twist, Civil Rights icons walked the runway for the Black-owned athleisure brand, Actively Black. Ruby Bridges, who desegregated her school in Louisiana at the age of six years old in 1960, walked the show last night at the age of 71. Before she came out onto the runway, a video played of the racist reactions to her activism when she was just a child, and a child actor walked the runway with two older […]

September 14, 2025

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Trump calls D.C. neighborhoods ‘slums’ as critics say comments show bias against Black residents

Residents of Washington, D.C., are continuing to push back against the narratives about their city as military troops and federal officers swarm the streets as part of the Trump administration’s declared 30-day crime emergency. “It’s offensive, it’s dangerous, and it’s discriminatory to look at the part of the city, that is majority Black and has been so historically, and define them as slums and crime ridden when we’re communities and every neighborhood is different,” said Gregory Jackson, a longtime public […]

August 22, 2025

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett gets hilariously pranked on the ‘Steve Harvey Morning Show’

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, did her best not to “pop off” during an expected “hostile” call that turned out to be a prank on Friday morning. The popular Texas congresswoman had no idea she was on national syndicated radio when she received a call from a man who claimed to be the president of Our Black Businesses, or OBB, named Terrence. “How did you get my number?” Crockett said at the start of the 6-minute call. Terrence, who was […]

March 28, 2025

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Ras Baraka could be NJ’s first Black governor – and polls show him in the lead after taking on Trump

Mayor Ras Baraka is running for governor of New Jersey and defying expectations in the process. While some political consultants ranked him as the underdog when he entered the race, Baraka has just been announced as the frontrunner in a new poll of Democratic candidates—beating out established names like Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill and performing well in predominantly white counties, despite having spent less on the race thus far. If he wins, he’d be the first African American governor in the […]

March 24, 2025

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What’s happening in the Gaza Strip and Sudan that sparked a protest at the Super Bowl halftime show?

A performer at Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show unfurled a flag emblazoned with the words Sudan and Gaza in a protest over the two wars that are roiling the Middle East. Security at the stadium detained the performer shortly after waving the flag atop a car used as a prop in the performance. The New Orleans police said they are working out if any charges would be raised against the performer. The NFL said the person would be banned for life from […]

February 10, 2025

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Exit polls show majority of Black men and women voted for Kamala Harris

Despite much hand-wringing about whether Black men would jump ship from the Democratic Party and vote in droves for Donald Trump, election exit polls tell a different story. Early exit polls from The Washington Post show that 78% of Black men voted for Kamala Harris. The vice president’s numbers were just one point under those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020. “We said early on, based on our data, that the mainstream media was going to continue to prepare to […]

November 9, 2024

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Obama urges Black men to show up for Harris as he campaigns in critical Pennsylvania

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former President Barack Obama gave a blistering critique of his White House successor Donald Trump and urged Black men to show up for Kamala Harris as he opened a swing-state tour for the Democratic ticket. At a campaign field office to thank volunteers, Obama said Thursday he wanted to “speak some truths” after hearing reports on the ground that there was lower enthusiasm for Harris than there was for his own candidacy and that some Black men were thinking of sitting out the […]

October 11, 2024

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Dueling Harris, Trump rallies in Atlanta arena show nation’s divides

ATLANTA (AP) — Two rallies. Two Americas. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stood in the same arena four days apart, each looking over capacity crowds like concert stars or prizefighters. The competing events were staged three months before Election Day in the state that produced the closest margin of the 2020 race for the White House. On policy, tone, the types of voters in attendance and even the music playlists, the rallies offered not just opposing visions of the country […]

August 4, 2024