Black residents of a barrier island near Savannah are claiming victory after winning a racial discrimination lawsuit that would allow them to secure land and have a better quality of life in the community their enslaved ancestors built. The Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island was a settlement town for the Geechee people, who were trafficked…
Source: Victoria McGraw ( @victoriasaidit ) / Radio One Digital Irv Gotti just can’t stop talking about Ashanti and his stories haven’t been sitting well with Black Twitter. In Episode three of The Murder Inc. Story docuseries, which aired on BET on Aug. 23, Irv Gotti recounts the moment he allegedly made a move on…
Source: Mattel / Mattel Barbie recognizes entrepreneur, philanthropist, and first documented self-made female millionaire Madam C.J. Walker with a Barbie doll in her likeness. MORE: Eleven Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Madam C.J. Walker Madam C.J. Walker is a pioneer in the beauty industry. The Louisiana native worked her way up from a washerwoman…
The cultural impact of the sitcom “Living Single” continues to be unmatched nearly three decades after the show first premiered on Fox. Actor TC Carson, who played Kyle Barker, was swept up in the throes of nostalgia on Aug. 22 as he acknowledged the 29th anniversary of the show’s debut. The show ran for five…
A year after the record-breaking “Verzuz” match, The Lox rapper Styles P is calling for the hip-hop community to boycott Timbaland and Swizz Beatz’s platform. In August 2021, The Lox went hit for hit against Dipset in front of a large audience at Madison Square Garden in New York City. On Thursday, Aug. 18, TMZ asked…
The family of a woman who drowned in a pool while live streaming herself on Facebook has received the money needed to return her body to her native country of Kenya. Hellen Wendy Nyabuto, a health care worker in Toronto, Canada, was the sole provider for her family in the African country, according to her…
Back in the day, Damon “Dame” Dash, Jay-Z, and Kareem “Biggs” Burke formed Roc-A-Fella Records in 1994. They signed some of the biggest artists, becoming leading forces in the music industry, with billionaire Jay-Z as their largest. The label that signed Beanie Siegel, Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Cam’Ron, and more, was dismantled in 2004 and became…
Ashanti fans are going to bat for the singer as Irv Gotti continues to share details of the pair’s alleged relationship, this time on his BET documentary titled “The Murder Inc Story.” The series, which follows Gotti’s life as co-founder of Murder Inc Records and the success and struggles the company faced, began airing earlier…
Rapper The Game spilled tea on his past relationship with singer Mýa and how it all went south in a recent interview with Carl Anthony Lamarre on CEEK’s “The Debut Live.” The “Hate It Or Love It” rapper confessed he “manifested” Mýa into his life after watching her in the “Ghetto Superstar (This Is What…
R&B singer Usher seemingly took issue with Diddy’s controversial statement that implied R&B genre was no longer around in this day and age. The “Love in this Club” singer made some personal confessions about Diddy’s statement in a recent interview with Bevy Smith on her “Bevelations” podcast where he not only passionately defended R&B’s current…
