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The Wire star Wendell Pierce marked the historical moment of two Black women being elected to the U.S. Senate Tuesday night.

The actor, who is also known for playing Rev. Hosea Williams in Selma (2014), Captain C.W. Wagner in Elsbeth, Ishmael ‘Snaps’ Henry in Power Book III: Raising Kanan, James Greer in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and more, tweeted in celebration of the occasion, shouting out newly elected Delaware Sen. Lisa Blunt-Rochester (D) and Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D).

As of Pierce’s tweet, Trump had 188 electoral votes to Harris’ 99, with Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and more having been called.

History: 2 Black Women U.S. Senators in Congress for the first time! Sen. Blunt-Rochester & Sen. Alsobrooks pic.twitter.com/TiWKYqTyri

— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) November 6, 2024

Harris secured Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey,...

Porsha Williams is remembering her cousin Yolanda “Londie” Favors two weeks after her death, on the day they would’ve celebrated her birthday.

Favors, who appeared on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Porsha’s Family Matters, died on August 7 at the age of 34, two weeks before her birthday.

“Happy Heavenly Birthday to my beautiful baby cousin @londieknowsbest!” Williams shared in an Instagram post with a video of Favors celebrating her birthday.

She continued, “It’s too hard to write all my feelings. I love you always...

The Real Housewives franchise is known for its iconic cast and the hilarious things they say to each other. Whether it’s an insult or in jest, these women know how to make an impact with their words.

With The Real Housewives of Miami and Potomac currently airing, there’s never been better, more entertaining Housewives. From Orange County to New Jersey, each series in the franchise has had hilarious lines that got lost in a sea of other famous lines. Redditors came together to discuss some quotes that aren’t widely popular but deserve credit for how funny they were.

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Aviva Drescher was not a loved Housewife by the other women on The Real Housewives of New York. She was combative and bothered the women by bringing her husband, Reid, with her on girls' trips.

John Lewis, a leading figure of the civil rights movement who endured brutal beatings as he led non-violent protests to end racial segregation in the 1960s, and then went on to a career in Congress as one of its most enduring moral voices, died on Friday. He was 80.

Democratic leaders announced his death. Lewis revealed in late December that he was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.

“Today, America mourns the loss of one of the greatest heroes of American history: Congressman John Lewis, the Conscience of the Congress,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“All of us were humbled to call Congressman Lewis a colleague, and are heartbroken by his passing. May his memory be an inspiration that moves us all to, in the face of injustice, make ‘good trouble, necessary trouble.”

Lewis served in Congress since 1987, where he often pursed voting rights, equal rights and social justice legislation, often drawing...

Activist storytelling has a new outlet. Director Ava DuVernay’s new initiative aims to disrupt the “blue code of silence.” She is sick of cops who kill black people without consequences, whose names don’t even get mentioned in the headlines. DuVernay is launching an initiative designed to hold police officers accountable, whether or not they have been charged for their crimes, through the Law Enforcement Accountability Project initiative.

Leap will fund 25 projects over the next two years, according to The Washington Post. It will be funded through DuVernay’s Array Alliance nonprofit. It has an initial budget of $3 million from contributors including Ryan Murphy and the Ford Foundation. The fund is designed to empower activists to tell stories across multiple forms of media.

“Leap is the Law Enforcement Accountability Project, a propulsive fund dedicated to empowering activists as they pursue narrative change around the police abuse of Black People,...

Rep. John Lewis (D-ga), who is fighting pancreatic cancer, gave his first network interview since the protests over the death of George Floyd started across the country.

“You cannot stop the call of history,” Lewis told co-anchor Gayle King. “You may use troopers. You may use fire hoses and water, but it cannot be stopped. There cannot be any turning back. We have come too far and made too much progress to stop now and go back.”

The civil rights icon, who was chairman of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee as they staged actions to desegregate the South throughout the 1960s, said that the latest protest movement “feels and looks so different. It is so much more massive and all inclusive. To see people from all over the world taking to the streets, to the roadways, to stand up, to speak out, to do what I call getting in trouble,...

Earlier Thursday, we posted a story about T.I.'s sister, Precious Harris Chapman, and reported the Medical Examiner's official findings on her cause of death ... we were wrong to do it. T.I. and his family are hurt and furious, and they have a point. Precious was a vital member in her community throughout her life. She was a proud member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She mentored children and young women in need over the years.