Kevin Hart attends Apple TV+’s “Number One On The Call Sheet: Black Leading Men In Hollywood” New York premiere at Crosby Street Hotel on March 10, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) Comedian and actor Kevin Hart will host this year’s BET Awards as the award show celebrates its 25th anniversary….
Shanisha Dixon-Tyrell hosts FinLit, a free financial literacy conference for teens and parents in New York. (Photo courtesy of Shanish Dixon-Tyrell) Financial literacy can impact physical and mental health and family dynamics. FinLit, a free conference for teens and their parents, aims to change that. For years, we’ve been told to “get the bag.” But…
The mother of a 9-year-old girl is demanding criminal charges against a Florida homeowner who posted a doorbell camera photo of her daughter on social media and threatened to shoot her. The homeowner, Tyler Chambers, faced an intense wave of backlash online for posting the image on a community Facebook group with the caption, “You’re…
Source: Cristian Lourenço / Getty Recently, a white man in Tampa, Florida, found out the hard way that publicly threatening to shoot a 9-year-old Black girl just for ringing your doorbell isn’t the kind of thing that will be well-received. Now, he’s pleading for the public to understand his mindset at the time, because, for…
Vanessa Laine Bryant (L) and Kobe Bryant attend the 2018 Baby2Baby Gala Presented by Paul Mitchell at 3LABS on November 10, 2018 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Baby2Baby) Vanessa and Kobe Bryant were married on April 18, 2001, in California; Vanessa paid tribute to their 24th anniversary on Instagram. Vanessa…
A 4-year-old girl trapped in her apartment is thought to have survived by eating chocolate for two weeks after her troubled mother and brother died, and many people are claiming child protective services dropped the ball and missed the warning signs. Gruesome police documents detail the harrowing discovery of Promise Cotton sitting alone and starving…
Byron Donalds, arguably the most influential Black Republican in MAGA world and a key surrogate for President Donald Trump, found himself playing defense Monday night at a town hall meeting in Florida. It’s become a familiar scene this year at Republican town halls across the nation, where the backlash against the Trump agenda appears to…
Source: Warner Bros. Pictures / Warner Bros. Ryan Coogler’s supernatural flick Sinners is generating buzz nationwide for its chilling plot and eerie atmosphere. But beyond the scares, the film weaves in some unexpected threads of American history. Set in 1930s Mississippi Delta, near the region where Coogler’s own family lived before relocating to California, Sinners…
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 14: Delroy Lindo attends the “Sinners” European Premiere at the Cineworld Leicester Square on April 14, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures) OPINION: Since the mid-1970s, Lindo has demonstrated the nuance, complexity, and diversity of the Black experience through the characters he embodied. Editor’s…
Bry Burrows and Jalen Hurts attend the 2023 TIME100 Next event at Second Floor on October 24, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for TIME) After seven years together, Jalen Hurts marries longtime girlfriend Bryonna “Bry” Burrows. Congratulations are in store for Jalen Hurts; he’s now a married man! While keeping…
