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Source: Catherine McQueen / Getty Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, provides technology, forensic services and investigative support to resolve missing person and unidentified remains cases, but the database has been underrepresenting the cases of Black and Indigenous women at disproportionate rates, according to a recent report from PBS News Hour. The de-prioritizing of missing women who are not white, continues to be a story […]

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on October 23, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty There is growing outrage within pockets of Capitol Hill – and likely Black America – after Republican Florida Congressman Byron Donalds made the “shameful” comment that Black families were stronger and better off in the Jim Crow Era than they are now. The political […]

Source: Zoom / Zoom A lot of people were clowning Michigan motorist Corey Harris, who went viral recently after he joined a virtual hearing to answer for a charge of driving with a suspended license while he was visibly still driving with a suspended license. Washtenaw County Judge Cedric Simpson couldn’t believe Harris had the audacity to show up on camera while driving, and he revoked the defendant’s bond and […]

Source: Eric Charbonneau / Getty OG Hip-Hoppers know what De La Soul brought to the rap game when they burst onto the scene with their classic debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, in 1989. Lucky for us, their catalog was finally made available to stream just last year—though, unfortunately, Dave aka Trugoy The Dove passed away just before it came to fruition. In a new documentary dubbed De La […]

Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty The Grammy winner and American Idol alum, Mandisa, died of complications of class III obesity at age 47. According to an autopsy report obtained by PEOPLE, the star was found dead in her home by friends on April 18, and she “was last known alive approximately three weeks” earlier. Class III obesity is a disease in which a person “has a body mass index (BMI) […]

The City Girls, rappers JT, and Yung Miami, were integral to the rise of women in Hip-Hop on the back of the duo’s popular singles and sexy image. However, the City Girls are no longer a group with JT and Yung Miami deciding to part ways, ending months of speculation of it being a rift between the pair. In a new interview with Complex, Yung Miami explained that she and […]