Source: Jim Steinfeldt / Getty As conservatives’ war of white fragility and racial resentment against diversity, equity and inclusion continues, presidents from Iowa’s three public universities told the Board of Regents Thursday that they’re overhauling their DEI programs on campus, which is to say they’re shutting them down completely and closing their DEI offices. According to KCRG, the presidents of Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa all met to assure the board and the state legislature that they are complying with to overhaul DEI programs an ..read more

Crystal Mason (center) and her legal team in 2018. | Source: Crystal Mason A Texas district attorney is unwilling to accept a recent decision from an appeals court to overturn a Black woman’s voting fraud conviction and is demanding the initial guilty verdict be reinstated. Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells on Thursday announced his office is formally appealing the ruling in the case of Crystal Mason, who was famously sentenced to five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in Texas for the 2016 election, when Trump won. Mason’s conviction was overturned last month, an ..read more

Source: Canton Ohio Police bodycam I‘ve written this before, but it’s worth repeating: One of the main reasons Black people’s tumultuous relationship with police officers is all but assured to continue is that cops don’t seem to learn from previous high-profile incidents. Stop me if this sounds familiar. Police officers approached a Black man and struggled with him while placing him in handcuffs. The Black man shouted the words “I can’t breathe” several times and expressed concerns that the officers detaining him were trying to kill him. The officers ignored the warnings as one of them pinne ..read more

Source: Canton Ohio Police bodycam I‘ve written this before, but it’s worth repeating: One of the main reasons Black people’s tumultuous relationship with police officers is all but assured to continue is that cops don’t seem to learn from previous high-profile incidents. Stop me if this sounds familiar. Police officers approached a Black man and struggled with him while placing him in handcuffs. The Black man shouted the words, “I can’t breathe” several times and expressed concerns that the officers detaining him were trying to kill him. The officers ignored the warnings as one of them pinn ..read more

  Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty Last week, we reported that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor the counting of votes and potentially challenge the count. The plans were confirmed by the RNC, which announced that attorneys would be stationed at “every single target processing center where mail ballots are tabulated.” Obviously, this is being done mostly to bolster the thoroughly debunked narrative that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. They’re operating under the guise of ..read more

Source: Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty Family, loved ones, co-workers and community members in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are mourning the loss of 41-year-old Tomitka Jurnett-Stewart. The mother of 10’s tragic story is a heartbreaking chapter in the long, brutal book about missing and murdered Black women and girls—and all the inaction and silence from those charged to protect and speak out. But Tomitka Jurnett-Stewart was found dead in the trunk of her car on April 17th. She’d been reported missing by her son, Lawrence Lejon-Jurnett, two days earlier on April 15th, reported USA Today. But the alert a ..read more

Source: Unique Nicole / Getty Amanda Seales acquired a reputation for being aggressive and difficult, but on a recent episode of former football tight end Shannon Sharpe’s podcast “Club Shay Shay,” the actress set the record straight. The three-hour and 10-minute interview allowed the “Smart, Funny & Black” creator to open up regarding her time on “Insecure,” her recent autism diagnosis, and how she deals with the labels the industry assigned to her. Seales contributed over 30 years to the entertainment industry. In 1993, she made her first movie appearance with a small role in ..read more

Source: Billboard / Getty Keke Palmer is picking up her pen again. Today, the multihyphenate star announced that she will drop a new book this November. Titled “Master of Me,” the project will be Keke’s second novel. “I’m not sure the next time I’ll write a book but this seemed like the right time to put my thoughts to paper. Writing this book scares me. When you write a book you are sharing who you are and what you are going through at that time,” Keke shared with fans on Instagram. “I’ve learned so much about myself this past year, and though we don’t know each other and live uni ..read more

Source: Chris Coduto / Getty Brittney Griner felt “less than human” during her 10-month detainment in Russia. In an interview with ABC News’s Robin Roberts for an upcoming 20/20 special scheduled to air May 1, the WNBA star recounted her harrowing experience in Russia and its prisons. Griner was arrested on February 17, 2022 at a Moscow airport for carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. Subsequently, the two-time Olympic gold medalist received a nine-year prison sentence on drug smuggling and possession charges. The 33-year-old baller opened up about some shocking m ..read more

Source: Spencer Platt / Getty W elp, the hits just keep on coming for the band of rabid MAGA thugs who tried to steal an election by spreading propaganda about it being stolen from Donald Trump. According to AZ Central, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) announced Wednesday that a grand jury had issued the nine-count indictment against seven top Trump aides and 11 Arizona Republicans who are accused of falsely certifying votes for the ex-president despite President Joe Biden narrowly winning the state. BREAKING: Those people who tried to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory to help Tr ..read more