Queen Latifah set to host Change Together: From the March on Washington to Today on Facebook Watch

Queen Latifah is helping Facebook Watch commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington with a new Facebook Watch special. Latifah, 50, will host Queen Latifah set to host Change Together: From the March on Washington to Today, a one-hour special that will stream on Facebook Watch Thursday, August 27. The singer … Read more

Frank Sinatra hated Donald Trump, the late singer’s daughter tells her former stepmother Mia Farrow

Frank Sinatra’s elder daughter says that the late singer ‘loathed’ Donald Trump even as the president declared that he wanted to honor Ol’ Blue Eyes with a monument alongside other American icons. Nancy Sinatra made the claim on Friday in response to a tweet from her former stepmother, actress Mia Farrow. Farrow, who was briefly … Read more

Historians weigh in on Trump’s picks for new ‘Garden of Heroes’

Historians have weighed in on Trump’s picks for his new National Garden of American Heroes, branding the president’s choices as ‘odd’ and ‘inappropriate’, amid nationwide protests calling for the toppling of Confederate statues.  During a rabble-rousing speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday, Trump announced an executive order to create the new monument honoring ‘the greatest … Read more

You cannot equate racism in America with the experience of being black and British

The horrific murder of George Floyd, a black man killed by the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, has not only shocked America, but enraged the world. Floyd is the latest addition to a gallery of victims of US police brutality, most of them men, most of them black: Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Tamir … Read more