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2024 Super Bowl on Sunday.The “Rise Up” singer, 39, performed the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas before the big game kicked off. She rocked a plethora of gold jewelry for her performance and a gray pantsuit.“More than anything, it’s an honor, you know, it’s exciting,” Day expressed during a pre-game Apple Music press conference.

Laphonza Butler, the first Black LGBTQ+ U.S. senator, won’t run in 2024 for the California seat to which she was recently appointed. Photo: Power Summit 2022

Netflix has released the first official trailer for Black Mirror season six – you can watch it above.Charlie Brooker’s technophobic, satirical anthology series has been away from our screens since 2019, but has now announced its return with a dark and dramatic sneak peek at its new episodes – set for release in June 2023.“You’ve been wondering… you’ve been waiting… you’ve been warned,” reads the trailer’s title cards before treating fans to flashes of the horrifying and violent events to come.The official synopsis for the season reads: “Expect the unexpected. The long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series which reinvents itself with each new episode. The sixth season of Black Mirror is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet.”The reaction to the trailer has been overwhelming positive, with fans expressing their delight at the show’s long-awaited return. “It’s been years… We’ve been waiting,” tweeted one person, while another wrote: “Best news all year!”It’s…it’s been years….we’ve been waiting— Sixeyes (@sixeyes_z) April 26, 2023Perfect timing with AI narrative being played across world.

Noah’s Arc has just been announced!The groundbreaking show’s creator, Patrik-Ian Polk, confirmed during his Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech at the second annual SpeakOut “I AM” Awards in Washington, D.C., that the show will be returning very soon.“I am very pleased to announce that there is more Noah’s Arc coming,” Polk declared. “And it is coming this year.”After the speech, Polk shared a clip of his moment on stage on his Instagram for all to see the joyous announcement.A post shared by Patrik-Ian Polk (@patrikianpolk)Gayle Magazine reported the big news.

previously explained that she wanted to be involved in the project because she “really wanted to represent Black women.”But Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, who previously served as the nation’s antiquities minister, is not happy with the “completely fake” portrayal of the famous queen, who he claims was wholly Greek — and “not black.” He’s accused Netflix of “trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilization is black.”“Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not black,” the archaeologist told the Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper, per a BBC report on Wednesday.In addition, lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary filed a complaint Sunday with the country’s public prosecutor to demand that Netflix be blocked in Egypt, claiming they are trying to “promote the Afrocentric thinking … which includes slogans and writings aimed at distorting and erasing the Egyptian identity.”A petition titled “Cancel Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra'” has more than 3,200 signatures on Change.org. Another petition for the cause that allegedly garnered 85,000 signatures was meanwhile removed from Change.org.

Joshua “Zeke” Thomas is photographed on April 29, 2018, during an interview with Q Voice News in Beverly Hills. Thomas is the host of the Revry series “Amplify Voices,” which spotlights queer Black and people of color communities. Photo: Q Voice News.

Joshua “Zeke” Thomas is photographed on April 29, 2018, during an interview with Q Voice News in Beverly Hills. Thomas is the host of the Revry series “Amplify Voices,” which spotlights queer Black and people of color communities. Photo: Q Voice News.

The 19th, a nonprofit outlet covering politics from a female perspective.See also: President-elect Biden appoints trans veteran Shawn Skelly to transition teamThe prospect of either Jean-Pierre or Sanders as the next press secretary drew approval from Aimee Allison, president of She The People, an organization dedicated to increasing the political power of women of color, who told Newsweek that the selection of either would be a “broad acknowledgement that Black women had a broad and central

California Supreme Court nominee Martin Jenkins speaks Tuesday during a hearing with the Commission on Judicial Appointments. Jenkins was unanimously confirmed as the first openly gay man to serve on the California Supreme Court. He also is only the third Black man to sit on the bench. Photo: Commission on Judicial Appointments

Rev. Kim Jackson won her election last night, making history as Georgia’s first ever openly LGBTQ State Senator.

Let Black Fxlk Be, an exhibit of diverse works from local queer artists celebrating Black love, friendship, community, and identity, is on display now at The Bakery Atlanta.