It’s not the gift, but the thought that matters, right? Well, in the case of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the gift and the thought are equally important. He received a gift of horse manure for Christmas. It was chaos at Mnuchin’s Bel-Air home on Saturday. NBC reports there was a suspicious package left with a […]
Ben Carson is the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and one of his missions has been to prevent low-income people from getting fair housing. Not very Christ-like of him, is it? The former neurosurgeon announced in August that he was delaying an Obama-era rule that allowed low-income people to afford housing in areas with […]
Imagine sitting in a restaurant and you see a neon sign with a racist caricature of a Black man that says “Coon Chicken Inn.” Would you smile with joy at our illustrious America history or say, “What the f**ck is that?” We would argue the latter would be the reaction for most Americans. Well, not […]
Joy Villa was such a passionate Donald Trump supporter that she wore a “Make America Great Again” gown to the Grammys. See below: https://www.instagram.com/p/Baxvr5UgG9k/?taken-by=joyvilla Her love for Trump, got her in his inner circles and even an invite to a November event at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. It was at the event that […]
Meghan Markle is about join the royal family as Prince Harry‘s wife, but some people in the fam might need some cultural competency training, especially Princess Michael of Kent. Yeah, we don’t know who she is either, but her government name is Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz and she is married to the Queen’s first cousin. […]
During the Alabama U.S. Senate race, Roy Moore‘s most solid base was evangelicals, who voted for Moore at an astounding 80 percent. This is despite being an accused pedophile. However, when people discuss the Christian vote, they often leave out an important factor — race. According to The Washington Post, Black Christians voted for Doug […]
Judge Roy Moore is the sore loser of 2017. The accused pedophile clearly lost the Alabama Senate race and has blamed everyone from Muslims to any form of brown people. Also, as we all know, Roy thinks LGBT people are going to burn in the fiery depths of an Alabama hell so he is especially […]
Republicans are celebrating the passing of the disastrous tax bill. It’s the one piece of major legislation the Trump administration has been able to pass and, arguably, the most dangerous. Sadly, the bill pumps up the lie of trickle down economics, helping corporations instead of the middle-class, and will destroy the cornerstone of Obamacare, the […]
Sad news to report. Hip-hop historian and the founding partner of the Loud Speakers Podcast network, passed away Wednesday. He was only 48 years old. In October, Reggie Ossé, also known as Combat Jack, revealed he had colon cancer. See below: Born in Brooklyn, New York, Combat Jack was a pioneer in hip hop. The […]
The Tax Bill From Hell The Trump administration is desperately trying to pass meaningful legislation after failing on ObamaCare, never building the racist wall and bombing on all of his other promises. Well, it appears the tax reform bill might just pass. It just needs one more vote. According to CNN.com, “The Senate parliamentarian ruled […]
Issa Rae is continuing to break barriers. The actress and writer will bring two new shows to HBO — Him or Her and Sweet Life. Sweet Life will be about teenagers in an area of Los Angeles known as the Black Beverly Hills. Him or Her, according to Deadline.com, will be a “single camera half-hour chronicles […]
Last week, Black Twitter nearly exploded when Cornel West slammed Ta-Nehisi Coates in an article for The Guardian. The Harvard professor wrote, “Coates’ allegiance to Obama has produced an impoverished understanding of Black history.” West is referring to Coates’ book We Were Eight Years in Power, calling Coates the “neoliberal face of the Black freedom […]