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Dominique Thorne wearing a Rahul Mishra dress at the BET Awards on June 9, 2025.

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Dominique Thorne wearing a Phan Huy dress at the Ironheart Los Angeles premiere on June 23, 2025.

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Ironheart comes out TONIGHT! Below is the release schedule for the first three episodes per timezone:

USA – 6pm PT / 9pm ET (June 24th)

Canada – 6pm PT / 9pm ET (June 24th)

Brazil – 10pm BRT (June 24th)

UK – 2am BST (June 25th)

India – 6:30am IST (June 25th)

Singapore – 9am SGT (June 25th)

Japan – 10am JST (June 25th)

Australia – 11am AEST (June 25th)

New Zealand – 1pm NZST (June 25th)

France - 3am CET (June 25th)

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Kerry Washington | Oscar de la Renta dress | BET Awards | 2025

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HAPPY IRONHEART DAY FOR THOSE THAT CELEBRATE!!!!!

Today's the day y'all!!!!

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More nonblack artists should have black ocs just because black characters are so fun to design like come on! regular ass black people get so creative with their style and you 🫵🏾 should draw them!!

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Dominique Thorne behind the scenes of Ironheart

dir. Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes

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Getting Technical with Marvel's 'Ironheart' Star, Dominique Thorne

Hotly anticipated and following the massive success of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel brings back Dominique Thorne with her own solo series, Ironheart. We had the opportunity to have a sit-down with Thorne on her return to the character, what fans can expect, and how jumping into the MCU has affected her career as an actress. Continue reading Getting Technical with Marvel’s ‘Ironheart’…

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IRONHEART (2025)

dir. Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes

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Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams/Ironheart

dir. Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes | Ironheart (2025)

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Angela Bassett

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LEWIS TAN

Instagram Stories (06/10/2025)

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Well!

So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.

Consider going through the Smithsonian website to learn about Juneteenth! Recognize why it's an actual day of freedom, versus July 4th and the independence of a select few.