Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from schools that participate in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.Hours after a New Hampshire judge issued a...
Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty ImagesRavyn Lenae has been hard at work since releasing her first song in 2015, and now, her song “Love Me Not” is a Hot 100 hit. She tells Billboard she received the news on what she remembers as a great day.”I was at...
Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty ImagesRema recently kicked off his Heis World Tour, but a slight change has been made to the date of his New York show. Initially scheduled to take place on May 3, the concert has been rescheduled to May 2. The reason for the change is...
Mustafa Hussain/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s unilateral effort to reshape election processes is an attempt to “short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order,” a federal judge in Washington, D.C. wrote Thursday afternoon.In a...
Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for ESSENCEThe Roots, Styles P, Big Freedia and Laila! are some of the acts tapped to perform at the 2025 Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage, a series of free and benefit shows held in parks across New York’s five...
Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration’s attempt to make federal funding to schools conditional on them eliminating any DEI policies erodes the “foundational principles” that separates the United States from...
BET+Usher’s concert film, Usher: Rendezvous in Paris, will soon be accessible to fans worldwide. After initially only being available to watch in cinemas, it will now be making its way to BET+, where it will stream exclusively starting May 8.“USHER: RENDEZVOUS...
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the next U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., apologized in a new interview for his past praise of a Jan. 6 rioter who had a lengthy history of antisemitic...
Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Lawyers with the Department of Justice accidentally filed a document overnight that outlined a series of legal flaws with the Trump administration’s plan to kill New York...
After seeing Travis Scott at WrestleMania and hearing his song “FE!N,” Killer Mike felt the urge to freestyle over the song’s beat. “I woke up with ‘Mania on my Mind. This beat is so cold I had to kill it,” he wrote on social platform X, alongside...
