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Source: Pacific Press / Getty When it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion, It’s easy to be discouraged with all the fuckery happening at the federal level in the dismantling of DEI policies — in education, the military, in government — you name it. Just this week, the Trump administration apparently made it a federal crime (well, your school can lose its tax-exempt status) if you’re Black and get a scholarship.

Source: ABC News / Screenshot A Black woman who was shown shooting a white man who was menacing her in the parking lot of a North Florida Walmart will not face charges in his death, prosecutors say. In a memo addressed to State Attorney Harold F. Pryor on Thursday, Homicide Trial Unit Deputy Chief Stephen J.

Source: NEON / YouTube/Screenshot The salon is back in Harlem, honey, and we don’t mean for finger waves or box braids. Soon enough, the masses will be able to peer into an exclusive cocktail party at Duke Ellington’s Harlem brownstone via Once Upon a Time in Harlem, a film by documentarian William Greaves, which will be released 54 years after it was shot.

The Roc Romance doesn’t take any days off, even when Jay-Z is on the road overseas! It’s Queen Bey’s birthday, after all! Source: Edward Berthelot / Getty While in London for the JAŸ-Z 30 Tour on Sept. 4, there was something bigger to celebrate than 30 years of Reasonable Doubt and 25 years of The Blueprint: Beyoncé’s birthday! While he was onstage at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, hubby Hov pushed pause on the show to celebrate Bey turning 45.

Source: Angelina Katsanis / Getty WNBA commish Cathy Engelbert says she’ll step down after a historic collective bargaining agreement was reached before the current WNBA season. The league announced Friday that the 61-year-old’s tenure as commissioner will end on Dec. 31. It’s the same day that play began in the FIBA World Cup. The Cup drew 51 WNBA players from 14 of the league’s 15 teams.

Steinem's legacy honored Black women leaders who shaped the feminist movement's core principles Democrats form task force to protect voting access and prevent interference in midterm elections Black women over 50 emerge as a vital engine of business growth, leveraging experience to generate higher returns Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, delivering the stories that matter most to our community.

Source: KENT NISHIMURA / Getty Welp, apparently, the GOP has backed itself into a MAGA corner, creating a political rock and a hard place for the party that no one could’ve seen coming except everybody who isn’t a MAGA sycophant.

Source: Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty Everyday conversations are filled with phrases that seem harmless on the surface, yet somehow manage to leave people feeling irritated, dismissed, or unheard. These sayings are often brushed off as casual or unintentional, but language plays a powerful role in how we connect with others.

Source: Jesse Grant / Getty It’s time to celebrate the ultimate Virgo, Queen Bey. In honor of Beyoncé’s 45th birthday, MADAMENOIRE compiled a list of some of the entertainer’s most philanthropic ventures — i.e. those times when she did it for the culture so everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive.

Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty It feels like the United States gets more polarized every year, yet one issue has surprisingly united people of all political stripes over the last year: data centers. In both Red and Blue states, there has been an overwhelming backlash against AI Data Centers. So let’s talk about what they do and why there is such a pronounced backlash against them. So data centers are not an entirely new thing.