Arian Simone speaks onstage during the 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture Presented By Coca-Cola® at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 6, 2024, in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Source: Arturo Holmes / Getty It’s never easy to create a successful business, but it’s a lot harder if you’re Black. xResearch shows that Black startup…
Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2024 inductee Vince Carter speaks at a hall of fame news conference at Mohegan Sun, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File) Carter, McGrady and MLS player Jozy Altidore have joined Gridiron Capital managing partner Tom Burger in a consortium seeking to buy a 10.6%…
In this Aug. 25, 2017, file photo, NBA YoungBoy performs at the Lil’ WeezyAna Fest at Champions Square in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File) On Monday, NBA YoungBoy pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree felony identity fraud, two counts of third-degree felony forgery, and six counts of misdemeanor unlawful pharmacy conduct. LOGAN,…
British supermodel Kate Moss was discovered in 1988 at just 14 years old after she and her family were returning home from a family vacation in the Bahamas. The owner of the Storm modeling agency saw the young beauty during a layover at JFK International Airport and recruited her for a career in the fashion…
Source: ANGELA WEISS / Getty Manhattan’s top US prosecutor is stepping down before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, ending his 4-year tenure. According to Bloomberg, Damian Williams, who has served as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York since 2021, has privately told his associates that he plans to leave SDNY before Trump is in…
Fani Willis, District Attorney of Fulton County speaks to the Associated Press on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Trump and other defendants had asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hold oral arguments in the case, but in a one-line order with no further explanation, the appeals court said that the…
Screenshot: In Kingstree, South Carolina, family care physician Dr. Morris Brown examines a patient Despite promises, the United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities. The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying…
A man who resigned from a college advisory board in Pennsylvania after being caught on video hurling racist slurs recently apologized for the remarks, drawing reactions from local leaders and community members. Jonathan Spanos, a restaurateur in York, Pennsylvania, issued a public apology after a video surfaced on X showing him shouting the N-word and…
Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr speaks during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 24, 2024. | Source: Anadolu / Getty Well, well, well — in a completely unsurprising non-turn of events, the president-elect who made a big show of distancing himself from Project 2025 has,…
A video showing a confrontation between two neighbors in Kennesaw, Georgia, after one called 911 falsely accusing the other of smoking weed in her apartment drew numerous reactions online. TikTok user @cocochaneljonezz posted multiple videos explaining how her neighbor called the police to report her and her family for allegedly smoking marijuana and assuming that…
