Rachel Pilgrim
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Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Leaves Spotify Deal In Midst of Joe Rogan Drama
ARRAY’s exit is preceded by musicians Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and India Arie removing their catalogues from the streaming service. → Read More
Migrants at the Mexican Border Sew Their Mouths Shut In Protest
Mexican immigration services report that asylum applications have reach new numbers since the U.S. has become strict with access to the southern border. → Read More
Adrian Peterson Will Not Be Charged With Felony in Domestic Violence Case, Reports Say
Peterson's wife, Ashley, says that he never hit or struck her during their heated argument at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday. → Read More
Billionaire Ken Griffin Donates $20 Million to Richard Irvin Campaign for Governor
Ken Griffin has long been at odds with the state's current Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, also a billionaire and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune. → Read More
Montessori School Shuts Down After Preschool Blackface Activity
At IC Kids in Newton, Massachussetts, toddlers were tasked with painting Black faces on paper plates to wear in the spirit of Black History Month. → Read More
Howard University Receives Another Bomb Threat During Black History Month
Predominantly Black elementary, high schools and other HBCUs have experienced multiple bomb threats this Black History Month. → Read More
Louisville Activist Charged In Shooting At Mayoral Candidate's Headquarters
Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg says a bullet grazed his sweater during the Monday morning shooting at his Louisville headquarters. → Read More
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Lifts Contentious Mask or Vaccine Mandate
Gov. Hochul announced that she will allow the statewide mandate to expire on Thursday, Feb. 10. → Read More
Minnesota State Patrol Banned From Attacking Journalists in Court Settlement
Minnesota will have to pay a group of journalists $825,000 over Minnesota State Patrol mistreatment during the George Floyd and Duante Wright protests. → Read More
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Joins CNN as Commentator
Bottoms shared that she applied for an internship at CNN while in college but didn't get in. → Read More
This Week In History: Where It All Began, a Black History Month 101
Carter G. Woodson launched the first Negro History Week on Feb. 7-14, 1926. This would later become Black History Month. → Read More
White Chicago High School Teacher Fired for Using the N-Word in Class
Mary DeVoto was trying to prove a point to her world history class at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School and she just had to use the N-word to do it. → Read More
Two White Men Arrested for Shooting at Black FedEx Driver
"It seems to be a copycat duo copying off the Ahmaud Arbery case," said Carlos Moore, a lawyer for Black FedEx driver D'Monterrio Gibson. → Read More
Father & Son McMichael Go to Trial for Federal Hate Crime Charges in Ahmaud Arbery Killing
Gregory and Travis McMichael will now go to trial for federal hate crime charges along with their neighbor William Roddie Bryan after a failed plea agreement. → Read More
Black Italian Actress Lorena Monroe Cesarini Calls Out Racism
The actress received a slew of racist messages ahead of her appearance at the annual Sanremo music festival. So she aired them out on live television. → Read More
Black Woman Owned Fashion Line, Jolie Noire, Lands at Target
Kim and Keyondra Lockett's fashion line along with several other Black designers are part of Target's Black History Month campaign, "Black Beyond Measure." → Read More
Former Louisville Officer Sentenced for Hitting Kneeling Protester in the Head With a Baton
Former officer Cory Evans struck Marty Chester on the back of the head while he was kneeling on the ground in surrender on the night of May 31, 2020. → Read More
Louisiana Governor Denies Delaying Probe Into Ronald Greene's Death
49 year-old Ronald Greene was tased, punched, and dragged by Louisiana state troopers during a traffic stop turned deadly arrest in 2019. → Read More
Today In Black History: The Fight for School Desegregation in a New Jersey City
Hundreds of people occupied city hall chambers in Englewood, N.J., in protest of the school board's refusal to transfer nine Black students to a new school. → Read More
‘The Walking Dead’ Star Moses J. Moseley Dies At 31
Moseley also appeared in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and USA Network’s popular TV series Queen of the South. → Read More