Source: CFOTO / Getty AI company OpenAI announced on Thursday that it would be “pausing” users’ ability to create deepfake videos of Martin Luther King Jr. following a request from the King estate. According to CNN, OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform launched earlier this month and has quickly become one of the most downloaded apps on digital storefronts. This rapid adoption of the platform has led to the growing spread of […]
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Congratulations. You’ve finally been invited to an HBCU Homecoming. Maybe it was your cousin. Maybe it was your homeboy from back in the day. Maybe it was your new “special friend” who decided soft launches are for chumps. Or maybe you just finally got curious about what all those obnoxious Instagram posts populated by the happiest Black people you’ve ever seen were about. However it […]
Source: Anadolu / Getty I’m struggling to find the words to capture the sheer panic I feel right now, but it’s a panic born of truth: the very foundation of our representative democracy is under threat. What’s unfolding before the U.S. Supreme Court over Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 isn’t a procedural argument; it’s an existential crisis that could permanently reshape the political landscape and silence […]
Source: OCTAVIO JONES / Getty On Thursday, a federal judge in Chicago ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents must wear body cameras after being “profoundly concerned” they may have violated one of her prior court orders. The New York Times reports that Judge Sara L. Ellis of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois previously issued a court order placing restrictions on the use of […]
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Source: General / Turkey Leg Hut Turkey Leg Hut founder Nakia Holmes was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with a felony for allegedly helping a man evade police, according to Harris County court records. Holmes, 45, faces one count of hindering apprehension or prosecution of a known felon, a serious charge that could carry significant penalties if convicted. Authorities allege that Holmes assisted Johnathan Saizon, a man accused of aggravated […]
Vic Mensa has long used his platform to speak out against certain injustices, doing so once more via a new editorial piece. In a guest essay for the New York Times, Vic Mensa accuses President Donald Trump of causing division in Chicago via the deployment of National Guard troops and the aggressive actions of ICE agents. Vic Mensa opened the guest essay referencing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who sent a […]
Source: The Washington Post / Getty So you may be wondering, what Is Arc De Trump? Well, President Donald Trump has revealed plans to erect a massive triumphal arch in the nation’s capital to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American Independence next year, according to Time. During a donor dinner held in the East Room of the White House on Oct. 15, Trump presented renderings and a series of scale […]
Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty The Confederacy and its disdain for Black and multiracial political power were on full display during the Supreme Court’s rehearing of Louisiana v. Callais earlier this week. Denying and eradicating Black voting rights and political power is a generational project not only in the South, but heavily grounded in the land of Black Codes, Jim Crow, and rebellion. Despite the clear mandate laid out in […]
