Zack Linly

4 days ago | bossip.com | Zack Linly

There’s a new pope of the Catholic Curch, and he’s the first pope to be born here in the U.SA. Not only that, but Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, is of a Creole lineage that traces back to New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a local genealogist and historian. Honora found evidence that the Pope, a Chicago native, has maternal grandparents who called New Orleans home and were likely from Haiti.

4 days ago | blackamericaweb.com | Zack Linly

Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: Cole Burston / Getty Universal Music Group (UMG) has filed a motion to dismiss an amended lawsuit filed by the record label’s own industry darling, Drake, who initially filed the suit in January — accusing the label of intentionally engaged in defamation by promoting Kendrick Lamar‘s cultural phenomenon of a diss track, “Not Like Us” — and amended the suit in April “to focus on events that took place since the initial filing,” according to...

5 days ago | newsone.com | Zack Linly

CLOSE As much as Republicans, especially in the MAGA era, fearmonger about election security and voter fraud that largely does not exist in the U.S., the true threat to American voters that we really don’t discuss enough is the years-long trend of red states redistricting their congressional maps with the clear intent — and often the expressed purpose — of diluting Black voting power.

5 days ago | newsone.com | Zack Linly

CLOSE Look, we didn’t need any more evidence that President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda is really just white supremacy reinforcement disguised as a fight against anti-white discrimination, but the commander-in-segregation-policies has just declared that high-speed internet is “racist,” presumably against white people.

5 days ago | cassiuslife.com | Zack Linly

Cassius Life Featured Video CLOSE Universal Music Group (UMG) has filed a motion to dismiss an amended lawsuit filed by the record label’s own industry darling, Drake, who initially filed the suit in January — accusing the label of intentionally engaged in defamation by promoting Kendrick Lamar‘s cultural phenomenon of a diss track, “Not Like Us” — and amended the suit in April “to focus on events that took place since the initial filing,” according to Variety. The lawsuit, which many people...