Source: John Wheatly / iOne Digital The Oxford Dictionary defines a hero as someone admired for courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities. Dr. Opal Lee’s life is the epitome of the definition. MORE: The One Story: The Journey To Juneteenth Dubbed the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” the 97-year-old activist has dedicated her long and amazing life…
Lizzo attends the 10th Annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Lizzo is bringing fans along on her fitness journey as she vacations in Bali. Lizzo’s “gap year” doesn’t involve a break from her fitness journey. In an Instagram post featuring…
Super-producer Jermaine Dupri has received the side-eye from social media after recently sharing his thoughts regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’ current job functions. On Thursday, Aug. 22, Dupri posted a video on X while completing his daily five-mile walk. After acknowledging how well the DNC had been going, the entertainment mogul presented a question he…
Years of blatant racism at Eagle High School in Idaho have brought two families to the brink. After school administrators allegedly ignored “countless” complaints and video evidence of racial harassment, the father of two of the victims is planning a lawsuit against the district. He recently took their ordeal public in the hopes of helping…
Ferguson, Missouri, August 2014 Source: Scott Olson / Getty Everyone who took to the Ferguson, Missouri, streets beginning on Aug. 9, 2014, called 44-year-old Julia Boure, Momma Julia. “That’s who she was introduced to me as–just Momma Julia,” said Tory Russell, co-producer of this year’s production of the Urban One’s iOne Digital annual, limited-series podcast,…
Phaedra Parks attends the 2024 Critics Choice Real TV Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on June 15 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) A “Real Housewives of Atlanta” veteran, Phaedra Parks, keeps it real about her beauty routine in a new partnership with IT Cosmetics. Ahead of her highly anticipated return to the…
R&B singer John Legend attended the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago’s United Center on Aug. 21 in support of Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris. However, the EGOT winner’s wife, Chrissy Teigen, missed out on a special request for her husband’s performance at the event. “I told John, if he really loves his family, he…
Captain Jason Bussert demonstrates Draft One, an AI powered software that creates police reports from body cam audio, at Oklahoma City police headquarters in May in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Photo: Nick Oxford/AP) Prosecutors and police watchdogs have concerns about how AI could alter a fundamental document in the criminal justice system that plays a role…
Chantemekki Fortson, mother of slain Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son during a June news conference with attorney Ben Crump in Atlanta. (Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP, file) Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran, 38, was charged with manslaughter with a firearm in the May 3 shooting death of…
Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty That was a great convention. But now what? Elections are about organizing and mobilizing. First, you have to organize your campaign infrastructure; recruiting, training volunteers and staff, crafting issue platforms, mapping out a strategy, building coalitions, setting up phone banks, printing walk lists for canvassers, integrating internet and mobile technologies,…
