A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer is under public scrutiny and the McComb mayor, after a video of him aggressively detaining a Black man during a traffic stop went viral. The footage seems to support excessive force claims as the suspect is handcuffed and the white officer is captured yanking him around and tossing him on…
Kanye West is taking a celebratory yet dark approach to news that his estranged wife Kim Kardashian and SNL alum Pete Davidson have broken up after only nine months of dating. Early Monday morning, August 8, the Grammy Award-winning rapper took to his Instagram account where he posted a photo of an digitally altered New…
Source: Richard Bailey / Getty UPDATED: 7:15 a.m. ET, Aug. 9, 2022 There aren’t many life skills more important to a child than learning how to read and our Black teens need to read more books. MORE: 15 Acclaimed And Unapologetically Black Authors Reading is like a gateway to your imagination and it allows you…
In almost every interview, “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star Rasheeda is asked about overcoming obstacles in her marriage to Kirk Frost. The two wed in 1999, and share two sons, Ky and Karter. But their marriage has been anything but flawless. The hit VH1 series revealed Kirk cheated on Rasheeda multiple times, including having…
Season 11 of “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta” returns with your favorite married couples Rasheeda and Kirk Frost, Mendeecees and Yandy Smith, and newlyweds Yung Joc and Kendra Robinson. Kendra joined the “Love & Hip Hop” in 2019, as the lawyer girlfriend of the “It’s Going Down” rapper. The two dated exclusively for years before going…
Students relax in between classes at North Carolina A&T State University Source: The Washington Post / Getty The largest HBCU in the nation will take a gigantic leap in helping to create more clean energy jobs for Black people. North Carolina A&T State University was awarded $23.7 million from the Good Jobs Challenge grant, which…
The man at the center of a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed Nicki Minaj’s father, Robert Maraj, was sentenced to one year behind bars for his crime this week. This announcement comes just three months after a judge promised a sentence of “no more than one year in jail.” According to TMZ, which initially broke…
Despite their pleas for leniency, the father who helped corner and trap a Black jogger in a Georgia neighborhood and his son who pulled the trigger on the man will serve life for a federal hate crime and in state prison. Travis and George McMichael will serve their federal sentences concurrently with their state murder…
Source: Spencer Platt / Getty It’s a sad but all too familiar story. MORE: Everything We Know About The Mysterious Death Of Lauren Smith-Fields A Black mother of six was found brutally stabbed to death inside a minivan in West Philadelphia and her fiancé is the suspect who was arrested in connection with her killing….
LisaRaye McCoy may always be recognized as Diamond the exotic dancer by fans who came to know her during the ’90s. The actress took on the unforgettable role in “The Players Club” in 1998. Since then, the role has seemingly followed McCoy. Even with seeing her let her hair down and hit the dance floor,…
