Residents in Rhode Island vote to drop “Providence Plantations” from the state’s name. In a 52.9 percent vote and 100 percent of precincts reporting, Rhode Island will now just be recognized as only Rhode Island. The state’s original official name was Rhode Island and “Providence Plantations.” The name had been …

The Ohio police officer who was fired by her former boss for being openly gay has now been elected as Ohio Hamilton County’s newest sheriff, beating the same boss that terminated her. Charmaine McGuffey has made history as the first LGBTQ person to be  Hamilton County Sheriff, PEOPLE reports. Last month …

Ritchie Torres has made history as the first openly gay, Afro-Latino member of Congress. History has been made over and over again with this presidential election as people across the country not only vote for who they want to lead their country as commander in chief, but also who they …

The NBA and its players are looking to come to an agreement about starting the next season on Dec. 22. The new NBA season has been shortened to just 72 games due to the deadly Coronavirus. Typically the season would run from Halloween and end in June and this time …

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be stepping down next year amid health concerns. There have been a few rumors circling around that Putin, 68, may have Parkinson’s disease, according to the New York Post. Moscow political scientist Valery Solovei told The Sun that Putin’s girlfriend, who is 37, and his …

The Philadelphia Police Department has released body-cam footage of the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. Twenty-seven-year-old Wallace is one of the latest victims of a police violence incident that happened last week in West Philadelphia. His death was recorded on video by a bystander, as well as by police …

Holden Matthews, the white domestic terrorist responsible for setting three historically Black churches on fire in Louisiana, has been sentenced to serve only 25 years in prison. In between March 26 to April 4, 2019, 22-year-old Holden James Matthews set three historically Black Lousiana churches on fire, including St. Mary Baptist Church …

Justin Bieber opens up about being suicidal and urges others to know when to get to help. Bieber, 26, has open about been dealing with mental health issues for some time. In a new YouTube series called “Next Chapter,” the singer comes to the very platform that made him famous …

Barack Obama sat down with LeBron James and his business partner-friend Maverick Carter. The 44th president of the United States talks the importance of voting and how he wants the Black community to be able to express their anger amid ongoing Black struggle: “I want us to feel angry. I …

The Supreme Court just tossed out a federal appeals decision that would have allowed a police officer to sue Black Lives Matter protestor and activist DeRay McKesson. The case stems from a 2016 incident in Baton Rouge, La. that occurred after the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, who was killed …

The FBI is looking into the pro-Trump residents who were recorded allegedly driving Biden campaign trucks out of San Antonio. Last week, a video of several Donald Trump supporters driving in trucks alongside a Biden-Harris campaign bus went viral. The footage shows motorists displaying Trump 2020 flags, CNN reports. “FBI …

A woman has been extradited from Australia back to California to face charges in a fatal hit-and-run, Fox News reports. Over three years ago, 35-year-old Andrea Dorothy Chan Reyes was involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a 46-year-old man who was riding his bicycle in the area of Calmada …

Seun Adedeji is breaking boundaries as one of the select few young Black leaders in the industry. At just 27, Adedeji is the founder and CEO of his own cannabis dispensary called Elev8, which is now located in central Massachusetts’s hinterlands. According to a Bloomberg cover story on Adedeji, he …

The mother, who was recorded throwing her autistic son into a canal twice, drowning him, is now facing the death penalty. Back on May 21, Patricia Ripley was caught on camera taking her 9-year-old autistic son, Alejandro Ripley, into a canal in Miami and drowning him after she pushed him …

Police lied and said a Black baby that they took from a family’s SUV was wondering barefoot during unrest in Philadelphia over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. The police reach a new low every day, and their lies never cease to amaze the world. The latest one comes …

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is clapping back at the Republicans who have something negative to say about the fashions she wore on the latest cover of Vanity Fair: “Tip #1: Drink water and don’t be racist.” AOC, as we lovingly call her, is a trendsetter and trailblazer in a variety of …

A New York City police officer has been charged in the death of his own 8-year-old son, Thomas Valva. According to Newsday, the little boy passed away after being forced to sleep in a freezing garage at his father’s Center Moriches home. The 41-year-old police officer’s attorney states that he …

The Philadelphia Police Department found a van filled with explosives in the middle of unrest over the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. Since the police killing of 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr., Philadelphia has exploded into an outcry over the man, who reportedly suffered from bipolar disorder. The protests …

An Ohio man was assaulted over a Joe Biden campaign sign in his yard. People clearly don’t know how to respect people’s political views in Trump’s America, so instead of minding their own business, some have decided to harass others, even if they are elderly. According to Coshocton County Sheriff’s …

A couple is calling out an Atlanta-based restaurant Umi Sushi after they were told to leave for allegedly breaking the dress code. According to an Instagram post made by Kaylan Colbert. Colbert and her husband were going out to dinner for her birthday when they were asked to leave over …