It’s been one heck of a year for King Harris. Since last year, the 20-year-old has been in the headlines more frequently for major incidents like the explosive and physical altercation he had with his parents T.I. and Tameka “Tiny” Harris at a Falcons game. Earlier this month, his parents threw him a baby shower…
FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter greets attendees as he departs the funeral service for his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File) The former U.S. president voted by mail while living in hospice care at his home in Georgia. Jimmy…
Actor Michael Beach’s character Miles in the movie “Soul Food” had an extremely complicated marriage and love life. In the 1997 flick, he played a musician who was married to a wife named Terry, played by Vanessa Williams. But one evening, when she left the home, Miles gave into temptation and slept with her cousin…
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 20: Morgan Freeman speaks onstage at the “The Shawshank Redemption” screening during the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 20, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for TCM)Photo by: Presley Ann / Getty Images While famous Black actors are undeniably breaking records and making film…
American blues musician Aaron ‘T-Bone’ Walker (1910 – 1975), UK, 3rd March 1965. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Evening Standard / Getty Images The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter dedicated a month to African American music appreciation beginning in 1979. With the…
CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 21: Idris Elba attends the press conference for “Three Thousand Years of Longing” during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2022 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Joe Maher/Getty Images)Photo by: Joe Maher / Getty Images Everything you need to know about Idris Elba’s diverse…
Patrick Kelly (fashion designer). (2024, January 13). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kelly_(fashion_designer) From bold-colored scarves to the zoot suit in Harlem to the mass popularity of bold acrylic nails, Black culture in fashion has always been present in American history. Many Black fashion designers like Dapper Dan and makeup/lingerie lines like Fenty Beauty broke ground in a fashion industry…
Source: David McNew / Getty MAGA Republicans are, if nothing else, comically predictable. Over the weekend, a band of neo-Nazis joined a pro-Donald Trump event hosted by his son and daughter-in-law, Eric and Lara Trump. They’d promoted the event as “the mother of all TRUMP boat parades.” When I reported on the event Tuesday, I…
A set of videos that are being widely shared on social media shows four white men following and harassing a Black teenager through a Florida neighborhood. Whitney Portela posted the clips on Facebook and TikTok that show her 18-year-old son walking through a residential community in Sarasota with four older white men tailing him and…
(Photo credit: Screen capture from the “Cold Facts” music video) Rapper Ka died unexpectedly over the weekend at age 52. After releasing his final album, “The Thief Next to Jesus,” in August, New York-based rapper Ka has died at the age of 52. According to a post to his Instagram profile on Monday, Oct. 14,…
