Black Voices
"We're not going to get everything right in a movie," Jon M. Chu, who faced similar backlash for "Crazy Rich Asians," told The Root.
Plenty of Senate Republicans support a Juneteenth holiday, but the bill would take time from other Democratic priorities.
She's the ninth Black woman to ever become a federal appeals court judge.
The "Rapstar" rapper was released on bond hours after being booked into jail on five charges, including battery of a police officer.
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The Oscar winner recently resurfaced an interview where she discussed her reaction to hearing her name referenced in songs.
Officer Karol J. Chwiesiuk allegedly breached the Capitol building, and told an acquaintance beforehand that he was going to D.C. to “f**k up some commies.”
The Houston rapper put her Republican critics in their place with her new video for "Thot Shit."
The "Mad About You" star said she and her co-writers could "barely get a meeting" on the now-defunct project, which she'd also planned to direct.
The White House has named nominees for the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, which will reexamine unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era.
The racial abuse Smith witnessed when mom Jada Pinkett Smith brought her on tour with her band, Wicked Wisdom, made the singer scared to pursue rock.