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The 46-year-old singing legend took the stage in a form-fitting, body-hugging catsuit, hitting whistle tones and belting out hits that left the live audience completely mesmerized. But once clips from the performance hit TikTok and Instagram, online trolls and body shamers immediately flooded the comment sections with unprovoked critique.

Outside of being two of the most important figures in the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King are also a beautiful image of Black love rising in a world trying to push them down. Introduced to each other by a mutual friend in 1952, it did not take long for the pair to tie the knot the following year. They quickly became one of the greatest love stories in America as they shaped the civil rights movement and had four children together.

Jason Arday, who became the youngest Black professor in Cambridge's history in 2023, has resigned following a university investigation into plagiarism, fabricated research, and inflated resume credentials.

Kanye West is losing his head over his latest music video -- literally -- and wife Bianca Censori is the one calling the shots. Ye dropped the bizarre visual for "OK," his track featuring Don Toliver, and Bianca planted her husband squarely on a morgue table for the occasion. The video shows Kanye as a headless corpse while a team of doctors operates on his body, pulling strange objects from inside his torso.

This Friday marks a historic milestone for one of the country's most controversial Black liberation protests: Black August. It's been nearly 55 years since the first observance took shape inside California's San Quentin State Prison. Black August grew from a turbulent chapter in history marked by prison uprisings, political radicalism, racial injustice and the deaths of men including Black Panther member George Jackson who became symbols of resistance.

The murder trial for alleged Tupac Shakur killer Duane "Keefe D" Davis rolls into Day 2 and it's expected to be wild after yesterday's opening arguments, which were 30 years in the making. Keefe is accused of planning the murder of the legendary rapper and allegedly produced the gun used to kill Tupac, though prosecutors say he wasn't the trigger man that fateful night.