Iowa

THE BUZZ! Racial slur seen in TV weather forecast: ‘We apologize to our viewers’ A weather channel in Des Moines Iowa is apologizing to its viewers. The apology is in response to a racial slur shown on screen during a broadcast. The graphic on the screen read Hello Des Moines, This is your weather my […]

  CNN Names Black Nonprofit Founder, Shirley Raines, Hero Of The Year  Black Girl Magic gets recognized once again as CNN announces its 2021 Hero of the Year Recipient. This year’s winner is Shirley Raines who for the past six has been doing a lot of work in the Los Angeles’s Skid Row’s houseless community by providing […]

A hog farmer in Iowa was found guilty for the murder of his wife, who died in November 2018 after being impaled with a corn rake.

The story of a missing Iowa man made a tragic turn due to a shocking discovery...

The director of Iowa’s social services agency is a huge fan of Tupac Shakur, which ultimately ended up costing him his job.

Kamala Harris climbs in the polls.

As Black people, we are expected to consume these personal, violent attacks like we digest cake. We are told that we cannot act if someone decides to be ruthless, violent and trifling. As violence begets violence against us, we are continually told and showed that it is not fine to simply be.

Black Iowa teens received college scholarships for keeping their promise to graduate high school. The scholarship offer and promise to graduate came a decade ago.

Iowa fourth grader Maddy Douglas recently refused to answer a math problem in her Common Core homework because it broke “girl code.”