The NBA is advancing its efforts to support grassroots nonprofits at the forefront of social change. The league’s philanthropic arm—the NBA Foundation—has donated a grant to the New York City-based organization Avenues for Justice. NBA Foundation Awards Grant to Avenues for Justice to Support our HIRE UP Program! @NBA @NBAFoundation We are so thrilled to…
Who is Lil Wayne dating today? The New Orleans rapper born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. who has been married upwards of three times, has been in a string of many relationships with multiple different women. The hip-hop rapper made name for himself as one of the greatest rappers alive in the music industry, starting out…
The harrowing murder of Emmett Till amplified brutal truths surrounding the realities of racism in America; sparking a movement rooted in the fight for racial justice. Nearly 67 years after his horrific death, Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley are posthumously being honored with a Congressional Gold Medal, NBC News reported. House unanimously passes bill…
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty Presidential elections are complicated. But in a move aimed at warding off future crises like the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Senate and House have passed legislation to clarify ambiguous and trouble-prone aspects of the process. Currently, all 50 states and the District of Columbia hold…
Mississippi police fatally shot a woman who was holding a Walmart employee in the megastore hostage after she refused to back down. Cellphone footage of the incident shows Corlunda McGinister, 21, holding onto a woman wearing a Walmart vest with her left hand and waving a gun in her right hand demanding to see a…
Tia Mowry may want to give her son, Cree Hardrict, a heads-up the next time she wants to switch up her look. Mowry has been testing out a flirty blond bob hairdo in several of her recent social media posts. The actress has been known to test out different hairstyles, especially now that she has…
‘The M.E. from Broward Basically Made It Seem Nothing Happened’: New Autopsy Gives New Life in Kevin Desir’s Family’s Fight Justice as it Ruled Death a Homicide while Restrained by Deputies The family of Kevin Desir says it has always suspected foul play from Broward County sheriff’s deputies, and they believe a new independent autopsy…
Hip-hop sweetheart Megan Thee Stallion and Canadian rapper Tory Lanez had a short-lived but storied relationship with a tumultuous ending. A California jury found Lanez found guilty on charges connected to assaulting the other rapper on Friday, Dec. 23. The pair first sparked dating rumors in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Megan…
Source: svetikd / Getty Last month while out sick, I got into the holiday spirit by watching a bunch of cheesy Christmas movies. You know, the kind usually found on Hallmark or Lifetime. Usually, these movies are all white casts in rural towns that often have no Black people in sight. But I stumbled…
A California medical school has issued an apology for research conducted in the 1960s and 1970s by faculty members who conducted dozens of medical experiments on thousands of prison inmates, but one of the professors involved still works at the school. The men were “assessed or treated for psychiatric diagnoses” and the school injected their…
