Although Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels have been divorced since September of this year, the drama between the pair’s legal agreement recently unfolded during “Love & Hip Hop: ATL.” In the Nov. 7 episode, Mena, who married the rapper in 2019, was seen celebrating, after being told by a person who appears to be her attorney that her divorce from her…
Source: Maskot / Getty Safety for Black students in college is an ongoing battle. The incident that transpired at the University of Kentucky over the weekend shows that the commitment to safety for Black students on college campuses across the country needs to be prioritized. Since Kentucky freshman Kylah Spring was physically, verbally, and racially…
A South Carolina high school honored one of its students after he was fatally hit by a truck while walking to school. Officials at the campus arranged a vigil to celebrate the life of the ninth grader who was a “well-mannered young man” who excelled in the arts. On Wednesday, Nov. 2, Ja’Quan Rico Cortez,…
Source: GIORGIO VIERA / Getty On Tuesday night, Florida Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost made history after he became the first member of Generation Z to be elected to Congress. According to the Associated Press, 25-year-old Frost won his race for Florida’s District 10 with a sweeping vote, pulling in 59% of the vote from…
Earlier this year, “Basketball Wives” star Shaunie Henderson went through a few changes in her life. The 47-year-old married Pastor Keion Henderson in May in a lavish ceremony in Anguilla. Shortly following her wedding, Shaunie would officially drop the last name O’Neal that she’d kept after her divorce from Shaquille O’Neal. Shaunie reveals that she…
Source: Jessica McGowan / Getty First, let’s get one fact out of the way: It’s hard AF to get a Black person elected as governor in this country. On Tuesday, Wes Moore made history by becoming the very first Black person to be elected as governor of Maryland. But the statistic that’s even more telling…
A former Kansas City, Missouri, police detective who fatally shot a Black man as he was backing into his driveway in 2019 has filed an appeal to his conviction. Eric DeValkenaere is the first white law enforcement officer in Kansas City to be charged and convicted for killing a Black person in over eight decades….
Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving has been facing massive backlash for sharing a link to what many deem as an anti-Semitic documentary, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” on his social media page. The 2018 film, which is based on a series of books by Ronald Dalton Jr. of the same name, uncovers the identity of…
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin Mandela Barnes speaks to union workers at an event hosted by the Teamsters on the steps of the state capital building on November 7, 2022, in Madison, Wisconsin. | Source: Scott Olson / Getty In a super-tight race, Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes was defeated by GOP incumbent…
The family of a Colorado mother who died after a paramedic injected her with ketamine is suing the nation’s largest ambulance service for giving her the powerful sedative. Jerica LaCour died in January 2018 after police, firefighter and emergency personnel responded to a call of an intoxicated woman walking around a parking lot in Colorado…
