Over the last month, the harrowing conflict between Israel and Palestine has taken center stage for much of the world to agonizingly witness from afar. Officials estimate that more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, including 4,500 children. The bloodshed has taken an intolerable and inhumane form with reports revealing the...
Tezlyn Figaro has been a part of the political world for years, and she’s looking to have conversations bringing hip-hop and culture into the fold. Figaro is the host of REVOLT’s “Tez on Ten” show, where she sits down with political figures and people in the community as they discuss crucial topics of the day....
Social media is torn about a video that has gone viral showing an upper-middle-aged white woman yelling at an older Black woman. The white woman is the manager of a grocery store and the Black woman is a cashier. The argument stems from the approved work schedule that is supposed to be adhered to. According...
Nadia Mohamed was voted in as the next mayor of St. Louis Park, Minn., a suburb on the west side of Minneapolis that just became the first city in the United States to elect a Somali American to that office. Deqa Dhalac of South Portland, Maine, was the first Somali American to serve as an...
Actress Keke Palmer made headlines earlier this year when she wore a see-through dress to Usher’s Las Vegas residency and seductively danced as he sang to her. It was then that many were introduced to her partner, Darius Jackson, with whom she shares a son, Leodis “Leo” Andrellton. As footage from Palmer’s girls’ night in...
Democrat Gabe Amo defeated Republican Gerry W. Leonard Jr. in a special election for Rhode Island‘s 1st Congressional District seat Tuesday, becoming the state’s first Black Congressman. The seat was vacated by seven-term Rep. David Cicilline, also a Democrat, who announced in February that he would step down to become president and CEO of the...
A Florida resident who suffered injuries while vacationing in Medellin, Colombia, is stuck in the country due to hospital officials pressing his family to pay before he is released. Michael Eugene Clark, a Clark Atlanta University alum, went on the annual trip with two of his friends last month, CBS News reported. While there, the group went...