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The U.S. Senate tried to hold a procedural vote on whether to advance an amended version of the House passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act, however, Republicans blocked the vote Tuesday night. The legislation is co-sponsored by every Senate Democrat except West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who told...

Mike Epps will portray the late comedian, Richard Pryor, in an untitled 1980s-era series about the Los Angeles Lakers, according to HBO’s breakdown of characters. The series is based on “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s,” which was written by Jeff Pearlman. On HBO’s website, Pryor was described as a “prolific and boundary-breaking comedian who lived the Hollywood dream, sometimes in excess.”

Comedian and Oscar-winning director Jordan Peele has made his mark with the hugely popular thrillers Get Out and Us, which have already become cult classics. But they say with great success comes some form of imitation and people online are calling out a movie titled “Karen” that many are saying is a carbon copy of Peele’s movies but with a little flip of the script.

There’s a dungeon that is located in Atlanta, Georgia and you won’t be considered an outcast for wanting to visit. In fact, Antwan André Patton, better known as OutKast’s Big Boi, has announced that he is the owner of The Dungeon and it has recently been placed as a listing on Airbnb.

IKEA, the Scandinavian furniture chain store giant, served a controversial menu to customers and employees in Atlanta to honor Juneteenth, according to CBS46. According to the news station, the menu options in question were fried chicken, watermelon, mac and cheese and collard greens. Food like chicken and watermelon became a racist trope after the Civil War and slaves won their freedom and grew and sold the fruit as they gained self-sufficiency. It also became a symbol used largely by Southern whites to call Blacks lazy, unclean heathens.

President Joe Biden will host a White House ceremony later this year to unveil the official White House portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. According to an NBC News report, the portraits of the Obamas are “virtually done.”. Former President Donald Trump refused to participate in the White House’s unveiling...

Reuters – The White House is preparing to acknowledge it will not meet President Joe Biden’s goal of delivering at least one COVID-19 vaccination dose to 70% of U.S. adults by July 4, U.S. Independence Day, NBC News reported on Tuesday. It said the administration is poised to meet the...

A white woman in California has been charged with a hate crime after she made it her business to follow a Black Amazon delivery driver because she didn’t like how he was driving. The Alameda County district attorney’s office charged 35-year-old Julie Warland with a hate crime on Wednesday, June...

On Monday, Rochester police identified the woman who was fatally shot in front of her two small children. Genuine Ridgeway, 31, was killed Friday afternoon while sitting inside a car with her two young children nestled inside, the Democrat & Chronicle reported. Ridgeway was pronounced dead at the scene from the shooting that occurred around 2:15 p.m. in the Corn Hill neighborhood of Rochester, NY.

United Airlines Flight 1258 celebrated its Juneteenth in the sky with an all-Black flight staff. Everyone from the pilot to the flight attendants and gate agents were Black, CNN reported. Water gallons were blasted out ahead of the flight to commemorate the special moment that came on the same day as Juneteenth.

Reuters – Activists traveling through the South to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the historic “Freedom Riders” are urging President Joe Biden to do more to protect voting rights for Black Americans, as Democrats and Republicans battle over ballot access. Dozens of civil rights campaigners, traveling on five customized buses,...

Zing Health, a Black-founded Medicare Advantage insurer, is expanding into 32 additional states and the District of Columbia with its acquisition of Lasso Healthcare. The deal will allow Chicago-based Zing, a Black doctor-led insurer of healthcare plans, to buy Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based Lasso, a provider of Medicare-related services for thousands of Americans.

Singer Jazmine Sullivan was minding her business enjoying her Juneteenth holiday when the R&B hitmaker said she experienced racism at a Philadelphia Macy’s location. The “Need U Bad” crooner and Philly native took to her Instagram story on Saturday to recall the encounter she had at the Macy’s, AceShowBiz reported.

A powerful and diverse network of 50 top executives are rallying behind a new platform and business community, the Suites. The Suites was founded by entrepreneur, investor and corporate finance attorney Shimite Obialo, who while working in New York City for diverse tech companies and venture funds, recognized a void particularly for people of color in what she has coined the 3Cs of business building: connections, coaching and capital.

Somebody call 911 because Rapper Trick Daddy was stung and dragged for filth by the BeyHive after fixing his lips to say, “Beyonce can’t sing.”. The Miami-based, “Oh You Don’t Know Nann” rapper apparently didn’t know you can’t come for the Queen Bee after her online stans hit back at Trick’s criticism of the music mogul during an interview on the Clubhouse app this week, Newsweek reports.

Tennessee State University (TSU), is exploring the idea of being the first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) to add ice hockey programs for men and women. In a partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL), the Nashville Predators franchise and College Hockey Inc. TSU is currently conducting a feasibility study to determine how viable it would be to have ice hockey programs. Results are expected sometime in the fall.

A man who was charged with brutally killing his girlfriend and disabled daughter and decided to represent himself in the trial was found guilty of the murders. According to The Tampa Bay Times, Ronnie Oneal III was found guilty of the charges leveled against him. It had been reported that Oneal allegedly shot his girlfriend, 33-year-old Kenyatta Barron, and then supposedly beat her to death with the same weapon he fired after he ran out of ammunition.

A group of A-list celebrities teamed up to lend a hand to students from underserved communities in Los Angeles. Deadline reported that a magnet school called the Roybal School of Film and Television Production will initially launch in the fall of 2022 for ninth and tenth graders aspiring to be in the entertainment realm.

Former Miami Heat basketball player Dwyane Wade has been catching a lot of “heat” for his defense of his child Zaya Wade, who in 2020, came out as transgender. His unwavering support for Zaya’s identity, even at an early age, has given critics fodder for them to criticize Wade and his actress wife, Gabrielle Union, who fully acknowledge and show support for Zaya.

Lori Harvey is living her best life and certainly not going back and forth with her ex-boyfriend, rapper Future, despite the fact that he dissed her and her step-daddy Steve Harvey on a recent track. In a rare interview with Bustle, Harvey reveals that there’s a reason she’s chosen to...