Black travelers want to see the travel industry embrace their full identities. AzmanL/ Getty After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, when travel brands – including Delta Air Lines, Hilton and Enterprise – pronounced their support for diversity and the Black Lives Matter movement, our research group was motivated to conduct a study that…
News broke about yet another prison inmate in Alabama whose remains were returned to his family missing major organs, revealing a bizarre pattern of mistreatment happening within the state’s prison system. Kelvin Moore died at the Limestone Correctional Facility on July 21, 2023, from a fentanyl overdose at age 43. Before authorities returned his body…
Bronx bombshell Jennifer Lopez is gearing up to drop her ninth studio album, “This Is Me … Now,” and has released a single with two of hip-hop’s most exciting rappers, Latto and Redman. One of the first live performances of the new song, “Can’t Get Enough,” was her Feb. 3 presentation on “Saturday Night Live.”…
D.L. Hughley performs at The Stress Factory Comedy Club on January 21, 2022, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. | Source: Bobby Bank / Getty You have to give it to Shannon Sharpe, y’all—the ex-ESPN commentator might just have stumbled upon the Holy Grail of messy, juicy, gossipy, drama-driven Black entertainment with his podcast Club Shay…
After being accused of discriminatory lending practices, one of the largest banks in the United States has agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve allegations that it redlined predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods located in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the state of North Carolina and the U.S. Justice Department announced. Between 2017 and 2021,…
After being accused of discriminatory lending practices, one of the largest banks in the United States has agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve allegations that it redlined predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods located in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the state of North Carolina and the U.S. Justice Department announced. Between 2017 and 2021,…
Grieving families in Florida were upset to learn that a local funeral director mishandled their loved ones’ ashes. Elliott Maurice Graham, a 49-year-old overseeing Marion Graham Mortuaries, was arrested and charged with improper preservation of a human body and grand theft. For Pauline Durden’s family, a recent discovery made by state investigators during their investigation “was heartbreaking,”…
Grieving families in Florida were upset to learn that a local funeral director mishandled their loved ones’ ashes. Elliott Maurice Graham, a 49-year-old overseeing Marion Graham Mortuaries, was arrested and charged with improper preservation of a human body and grand theft. For Pauline Durden’s family, a recent discovery made by state investigators during their investigation “was heartbreaking,”…
Comedian and “Truth-teller” Mo’Nique recently appeared on Shannon Sharpe’s hit podcast “Club Shay Shay,” where she addressed an incident involving fellow comedian Tiffany Haddish talking about her family. Mo’Nique recounted how Haddish threw shade at her and her husband during a magazine interview. In a memorable comeback, the Oscar winner quipped that if Haddish had…
Comedian and “Truth-teller” Mo’Nique recently appeared on Shannon Sharpe’s hit podcast “Club Shay Shay,” where she addressed an incident involving fellow comedian Tiffany Haddish talking about her family. Mo’Nique recounted how Haddish threw shade at her and her husband during a magazine interview. In a memorable comeback, the Oscar winner quipped that if Haddish had…
