The fallout continues to grow in the aftermath of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shooting a motorist in Minnesota in an incident caught on video. As scrutiny and debate continue over the lethal use of force against an American citizen, President Donald Trump has doubled down on his administration’s attempts to paint […]
Sixth-year guard Dante Harris is closing the final chapter of a college basketball journey that has taken him from the Big East to the ACC to Tennessee State. When first-year head coach Nolan Smith evaluated his roster ahead of his inaugural season at TSU, one need stood out above the rest: a floor general. Smith
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Prairie View A&M is wasting no time testing the mettle of its defending SWAC champions. The Panthers, which fell just short of winning the HBCU national championship after a loss in the Celebration Bowl to South Carolina State, unveiled a nonconference slate that reads like a gauntlet, headlined by a September road trip to a
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Here’s a photo from social media of a side-by-side of Lucy Liu from Saturday Night Live in 2012 and The Tonight Show in January 2026 to advertise the movie “Rosemead.” It’s a photo of her looking elegant for her 57th year, and it has nearly 5 million views for defying the movie industry’s beauty standards
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World is back, officially! The very first All Stars-esque international iteration of Drag Race in herstory is back after its usual year off, and this time its Season 3. 10 queens from across the Drag Race universe are competing for the crown. As the series states in its official
His & Hers star Tessa Thompson thinks she might have met her co-star Jon Bernthal before—in another time and space. The two spoke with Blavity’s Shadow and Act about their new Netflix crime drama, in which they play a journalist and a detective with tense connections to each other and to the case at hand.
Getting busy college students to engage in discussion of healthy dining, let alone in participate in healthy culinary creations, can be a challenge. Elior Collegiate Dining found a way to get foodservice teams and students on college campuses to buy in and get excited, by combining wellness with culture and competition. Throughout October, Elior embarked
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HBCU basketball has produced few better stories this season than the rise of WSSU women’s basketball, and Wednesday night felt like the moment it all crystallized. Inside the C.E. Gaines Center, WSSU handled business on the floor with an 81–64 win over Bluefield State. But it was what happened after the game — away from the cameras, away from
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By Lexx Thornton A new statewide flash poll conducted by the John Mercer Langston Institute for African American Political Leadership (JMLI) at Virginia State University reveals that Black Virginians continue to strongly support Democratic candidates ahead of the 2025 statewide elections, scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2025. The JMLI surveyed 817 respondents statewide for its Black Virginia
By David E. SangerTyler PagerKatie Rogers and Zolan Kanno-Youngs President Trump said on Wednesday evening that he expected the United States would be running Venezuela and extracting oil from its huge reserves for years, and insisted that the interim government of the country — all former loyalists to the now-imprisoned Nicolás Maduro — is “giving us everything that
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