The Department of Homeland Security has sent legal requests to Google, Reddit, Meta, and Discord for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and identifying data of accounts that track and criticize ICE.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died. He was 84. whatimreading.net/p/jesse-jackso…

Honoring Reverend Jesse Jackson, former NC A&T quarterback. A leader on and off the field and lifelong champion for justice. Forever an Aggie💙💛 #Legacyliveson #AggiePride

I appreciate him more now

"Listen, I'm just going to tell you: You better be ready for a discrimination suit, because I'm going to encourage them to file a discrimination suit." —Jackie MacMullan on the "most underrated" moment of David Stern's career after Magic Johnson's HIV diagnosis

The long arm of Catholicism stretches to every corner of the world… ‘Japanese’ tempura comes from the Latin ad tempora quadragesima: ‘during the time of Lent’ Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1500s Nagasaki needed meatless food for fasting days So they fried battered

Nashville, Tennessee, 1930. Vivien Thomas was born into the Jim Crow South. He was Black in a world that told him what he could and could not become. He wanted to be a doctor. He worked as a carpenter and saved every dollar to attend the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial

I did my linguistic anthropology final on this a little while back + my favorite part of my presentation was getting to show everyone that all of these came from Black musicians and were published in a jazz dictionary in 1944.

The actor Charles Dance has some mindblowing genealogy: -He was born in 1946, making him 79 -His parents had an age gap of 37 years -His father Walter Dance was born in 1874 and served as a veteran of the Second Boer War -Walter died in his 70s when Charles was just 2 or 3 -He

Most people who watched black cinema over the last 35 years knew about Delroy Lindo

During Season 3 of The Wire , Robert Wisdom (Bunny Colvin) and Andre Royo (Bubbles) gathered the black actors together for this amazing picture. “We were just shooting the breeze one day and just marveling at the full array of talent that was coming together. This was the third

It seems clear that Jay is gonna do some 30th anniversary shows. And maybe a new album.

The only one I’ve seen who’s noticed that.

📚In 1989, ‘The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!’ by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith was first published

A Virginia hospital faces a $6B reckoning after an abusive doctor is accused of systematically sterilizing hundreds of Black women without cause. atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/15/ove…

R.I.P. to one of the iLLest Engineers of all time... Mr. BOB POWER. Thank you for your various pointers in recording from D'angelo to ATCQ'S Low End Theory, Erykah Badu's Baduizm and so on! 🫡🙏🏾🕊️

A frozen food manufacturing company is recalling nearly 37 million pounds of frozen foods that were sold at Trader Joe’s and other retail locations nationwide since they may contain pieces of glass, U.S Agriculture Department officials announced Wednesday. Full Story:

Lord. Full list here: fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/…

BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on the Kremlin, allowing Indian refineries to buy the millions of barrels of Russian crude on floating storage until early April, per Bloomberg