by October Gallery
Ever seen a one-man alley-oop in a real basketball game? Take your chance now, because this one is spectacular. Tyler Williams of Modesto Christian High School provided the over-the-top highlight…
Jay-Z documented his mother’s coming out as a lesbian for posterity on “Smile,” a track on his acclaimed 2017 album, “4:44.” On the next episode of Netflix’s “My Next Guest…
Bernice King had just turned five when she learned of her father’s assassination. It was 7:01 p.m. in Memphis when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, close to her bedtime,…
A photograph taken at Hope Hicks’ send-off party has sparked fresh criticism about a lack of diversity inside the White House. Members of President Donald Trump’s administration gathered in Washington…
Prolific poet and writer Maya Angelou would’ve turned 90 on Wednesday. To honor and celebrate the phenomenal woman who penned the powerful “Still I Rise,” Google has dedicated the day’s…
Denmark just got its first public monument to a black woman, and it flips the script on the country’s dark colonial past. The nearly 23-foot-tall statue titled “I Am Queen…
Last summer, Samantha Thomas of Buffalo, New York, met a guy on Tinder. A few dates followed. Wherever they went ― casual drinks, a movie, a walk around the neighborhood…
On the heels of police officers shooting a young, unarmed black man to death in Sacramento, California, last month, state lawmakers announced a first-of-its-kind bill on Monday that raises the…
When you’re a celebrity, there’s a lot of pressure to look a certain way and, of course, dress a certain way. To make things even more complicated, there’s also an…
WASHINGTON ― No authority has publicly implicated him in the embezzlement scandal enveloping his university, but by Wednesday afternoon Tyrone Hankerson Jr. had already become a meme — “Joanne the…