Roy Ayers, the towering jazz legend whose songs reverberated throughout the entire scope of music, passed away this week at 84, leaving behind a massive library of sounds. Throughout his long career, Roy Ayers’s music has been sampled several times, and we have ## essential songs from Ayers that were sampled by Hip-Hop and R&B…
A Florida man who says a police detective wrongfully arrested him for violating a restraining order while having a romantic relationship with his ex-girlfriend is suing the officer and the Homestead Police Department. In his lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on March 3, Julio Trejo claims that Pedro Perez, 41, then a detective with…
A person waits in a line for a prospective employer at a job fair, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) Elon Musk’s purge of federal workers through DOGE cuts is not expected to have much impact on the February jobs numbers. The U.S. labor market likely kept on churning out…
Weeks after finalizing his divorce from Jennifer Lopez, 55, Ben Affleck, 52, was spotted having the time of his life in Los Angeles at the 2025 Got Sole sneaker convention. Footage of Affleck and his 13-year-old son, Samuel, attending the sneakerhead event on March 1 hit the net. Ben and Samuel, youngest child of Affleck…
Tony! Toni! Toné! fans are heartbroken to learn that founding member D’Wayne Wiggins is in critical health condition amidst his absence from social media. Rumors of the musician being in hospice care began to circulate online on March 3. In a rare Facebook Live on March 2, former bandmate Antron Haile shared that Wiggins had…
Source: Anadolu / Getty Eric Adams is arguably the most hated mayor in the history of New York City (buddying up to Donald Trump to get his corruption charges dropped definitely didn’t help), so when he was called to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee yesterday (March 5), we already knew sparks were going…
It was all good just two weeks ago, but word on the street is that George Clooney and his wife, Amal, could be heading for divorce if one significant strain on their marriage does not improve, a new tabloid report claims. An unidentified supposed source purportedly gave an exclusive interview to RadarOnline on March 3, claiming there are issues…
Turns out the white man who accused a Black woman of stealing a ring from a Northern California gym has been arrested himself on felony burglary charges, accused of kicking in doors and smashing windows to enter residential homes to steal jewelry. “That is the ironic part,” said Sydney LaDay in a Zoom video interview…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty If you are wondering who is the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, don’t worry; we all are because the Trump administration keeps playing a shell game with shadow president Elon Musk’s official role. See, before the president took office, he announced that the South African immigrant, was…
Issa Rae, Rhiannon Giddens, Shonda Rhimes. (Photo credit: Getty Images) From Shonda Rhimes to Issa Rae and more, Black creatives have been reeling in the wake of Trump taking over the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. As it turns out, the room where it happens will not be in the John F. Kennedy Center of…
