Source: Andersen Ross / Getty One of the most important issues on the ballot this year is education. Education determines whether young people will receive the academic instruction they need to lead healthy, fulfilling and aspirational lives. It determines whether our children go confidently in the direction of their dreams, or are waylaid by disappointment…
Legendary singer Chaka Khan recently revealed during an episode of “The Jennifer Hudson Show” that she turned down the starring role of Celie in the 1985 “The Color Purple” film release. Throughout her career, which began in the early 1970s, Khan has secured a few acting credits in several sitcoms or hit drama series, including “Malcolm and Eddie,…
A New York boy chose to demonstrate the true meaning of friendship by sacrificing his allowance to help a classmate. Buffalo seventh grader Romello “Mello” Early told reporters he could not stand seeing his friend Melvin Anderson get picked on for his tattered sneakers, so he asked his mother if he could do something to…
Source: NurPhoto / Getty The FBI recently announced it was looking for Black revolutionary Cheri Laverne Dalton aka Nehanda Abiodun, who was charged in connection to a deadly armored-truck robbery in 1981, then fled to Cuba to escape prosecution. The agency is even offering a $100,000 reward for her capture. The #FBI offers a reward…
Trevor Noah is in good company when it comes to people who disagree with Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk’s plan to charge users to maintain their blue-check verification. While Musk, who purchased the social platform for $44 billion in October, proposed charging a $20 monthly subscription fee to maintain the distinguishing mark, he later buckled…
A Maryland family that purchased a casket as a prop for a Halloween party said they were horrified after finding a woman’s ashes inside of it. Brooke Wozniak told FOX 5 DC she ordered the casket from Facebook Marketplace. Discovered inside was a photograph of Edith Crews Meriedy, her death certificate, her hospital bracelet, a…
Source: Change.org / Change.org An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed a man that she says raped her has escaped from a women’s center where she was serving her probation sentence. According to AP, Pieper Lewis escaped the Fresh Start Women’s Center in Des Moines shortly after 6:15 a.m. Friday. The probation violation report said…
Iconic rap group Salt-N-Pepa recently received a star on the Walk of Fame, and the duo invited Spinderella celebrate the achievement. Over the past few years, the three women, who toured for decades spreading empowering messages through song, have been at odds after Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton said Deidra “Spinderella” Roper was…
Source: Dustin Satloff / Getty Kyrie Irving has more than earned his fair share of critics, to put it mildly, following several controversial moves over the years that recently culminated with a scandal centered on antisemitism stemming from a social media post. But to suggest he’s alienated everyone would be a vast misstatement as there…
A recent fatal car accident between a Clayton County police officer and a young father on a Georgia expressway is now under investigation. Law enforcement is looking to see if the cop was responsible for the collision that took the life of the young man. The devasting crash between CCPD Officer Cameron Pack and Kelvontae…
