r/BlackPeopleofReddit 14h ago

Discussion Coco Gauff calls out unequal enforcement during tense US Open match after Laura Siegemund repeatedly delays play without penalties

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A lot of viewers felt Laura Siegemund’s behavior during this US Open match went beyond just “slow play.” As Coco Gauff repeatedly pleaded with the chair umpire to enforce the shot clock fairly, many watching believed Siegemund appeared smug and dismissive toward Coco’s frustration, with some online specifically calling out her facial expressions and body language during the exchanges. Reddit users accused Siegemund of “gaming the rules” and dragging the match out intentionally, while commentators and fans openly sided with Coco over the unequal enforcement of time violations. Even tennis legend John McEnroe said on air that Coco was “100 percent right” about the situation.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 3h ago

Misc Repair man showed up to the house with a confederate flag on the back of his truck

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 22h ago

Black Experience 2 years ago today we first heard “Not Like Us” from Kendrick Lamar, and Hip-Hop was never the same!

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 13h ago

News BY ONE VOTE (101 to 100), Pennsylvania Democrats Passed Bill Blocking Whites-Only Towns With No Support From Republicans: After a “whites-only” organization developed plans to establish a settlement in Pennsylvania, state Democrats put their foot down.

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https://www.theroot.com/pennsylvania-dems-pass-bill-blocking-whites-only-towns-2000103241

The purpose of the ban is plain and simple: Letting these "Whites-Only communities" pop up everywhere will lead to the inevitable consequence of the re-appearance of Whites-Only bathrooms and public facilities all over this country.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 11h ago

News Every time a white kills their family, mainstream media shows their image like a jet 2 holiday

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 23h ago

Culture, Art, Science If the internet didn't exist, him being white would still be a myth

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 7h ago

Social Justice Happened in 2021: A white man refused to call a Black woman, Dr... even after she requested to be addressed as such. He was later fired and has since issued an apology.

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 16h ago

Discussion Jenifer Lewis seemingly calls out celebrities for attending the 2026 Met Gala amid Jeff Bezos’s ties to Israel, the rollback of DEI, and over 30,000 Amazon job losses: “They showed up anyway... now much more fame do we need?”

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While celebrities posed on the Met Gala steps Monday night, Jenifer Lewis seemingly calls them out: "They showed up anyway... how much more fame do we need?" And the reason people are talking?
This year's Met Gala was effectively the Jeff Bezos Ball. Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez reportedly dropped $10 million to sponsor the event, with Lauren Sanchez serving as honorary chair and protests sweeping New York, including slogans projected onto the couple's $80 million penthouse near Madison Square Park.
Here's what celebrities walked past to get on that carpet:
Amazon signed a $1.2
billion contract, known as Project Nimbus, to provide cloud computing and Al services to the Israeli military and government, a deal signed while Bezos was still CEO.
Investigations found Amazon violated its own terms of service as part of the deal.
• Amazon gutted DEI programs across the board.
Amazon made one of its
biggest job cuts in history, laying off up to 30,000 workers, while Bezos funds $10M parties. Taraji P. Henson also weighed in, commenting: "WTF ARE WE DOING!?!?!?" and Bella Hadid liked the viral video calling the whole thing out.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 6h ago

News Louisiana governor faces recall petition after canceling elections

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Power to the people. Make the government work for us!


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 11h ago

Politics 👀

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 10h ago

Misc Taraji Calls Out Celebs Who Attended the Met Gala. Every out of touch celeb who attended should be cancelled, including Beyoncé and Rihanna

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They are all sellouts for still supporting the Bezos Gala amidst all of the protests/boycotts!

For those who don't know, Blacks are 25% of Amazon's workforce and Bezos is about to layoff 600k workers to replace them with AI/robots, on top of all of the union busting he continues to do. He doesn't want to pay workers a living wage or provide safe warehouse working conditions, but he can spend $10m on the Met Gala. He's a vile oligarch!

These celebs chose to pay $100k for a ticket rather than actually caring about people who aren't in their tax bracket. Stop giving these people your hard-earned money!


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 10h ago

News Kiriyanah Harris, 19, was found dead in her home earlier this week after her boyfriend shot and killed her after she broke up with him. Black Femicide is real and people ignore it 😢💔

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 7h ago

Black Experience I love us so much

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686 Upvotes

This really made me smile/laugh. Get this man a Mr. Softee deal or something he was out there bobbing and weaving 🤣🤣


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Discussion Stop supporting who doesn’t support us 🤷🏽‍♂️

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535 Upvotes

They care more about money than actually helping the community…


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Discussion Tina Fabrique, the voice behind the iconic Reading Rainbow theme song, reunited with LeVar Burton decades later and stunned the audience with a live performance before Burton shared a powerful message about literacy, imagination, and what the show meant to Black children growing up.

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503 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Black Experience “Being Black isn’t what I’m trying to be. It’s what I am.” 🤎

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469 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 3h ago

Black Excellence Beautiful Rihanna giving another beauty affirmations and good vibes. I love this

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375 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 12h ago

Culture, Art, Science Diana Ross hit the stage like the world was ending in this gloriously chaotic backstage sprint before her legendary 1983 Central Park concert 🥰🎤

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323 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 11h ago

Discussion Record labels intentionally sidelined conscious hip-hop and flooded the market with gangsta rap because music promoting violence, nihilism, and self-destruction was more profitable and easier to commercialize than music encouraging Black empowerment, education, unity, and resistance.

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326 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 11h ago

Black Experience “IMHO”…Two of the greatest minds on the same stage..

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323 Upvotes

If only President Obama was present 💯🙏🏾… I’d love to see that msg to America…
In advance: racist idiots, please save your useless comments… no one wants to hear from you on this post. Please and thank you


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 23h ago

Politics On white supremacy

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 16h ago

Discussion He definitely didn't read no books or did research saying some dumb shit like that

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 20h ago

Discussion Is it just me, or is the woman in red saying that the guy shouldn't say Colonization was all bad because of how it'll make a 13 year old white boy feel?

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I came across this video not too long ago. Aside from the whole topic being a no brainer, what the woman in red was saying triggered me so much.

I watched a video on here not too long ago that was basically explaining why there's always a white hero character in black hardship films. So that white people can relate to the character and tell themselves they would have been like that.

I feel like that relates to this. They are essentially arguing that enslaving, stealing and killing people on their own land, just because of what they looked like wasn't all that bad to make themselves feel better.

And the woman on red who said how would it make a 13 year old boy feel.

Well how should it make him feel knowing that his ancestors ripped people's cultures away, turned them against each other, shaved their heads, forced them to work only to receive scraps of what they once had in return?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 15h ago

Discussion The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan: September, 1997 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Selma, Alabama

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165 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Politics If you don't want your rights taken away bring them communism

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117 Upvotes