Super producer Teddy Riley joined Jada Pinkett Smith‘s “Red Table Talk” to open up about his struggle to see his son, Prince Mykal Theo Riley. The 54-year-old has nine kids, but reportedly has not been able to see his youngest, who is 9 years old. On Mykal‘s birthday, July 17, Riley expressed on Instagram that…
Philadelphia police are investigating the circumstances around a local emergency medical technician’s death. Nisha Jaia Renee Dash, 32, was crushed between two ambulances during her shift on Saturday, Sept. 10. Officials said two private ambulances were coordinating a patient pick-up. One ambulance had the patient, and the second planned to assist. The assisting ambulance that…
Janet Jackson took time out of her day to wish Tyler Perry a happy birthday in a comical throwback video that showed Perry dancing backstage at what seemed to be Jackson’s show minutes before she hit the stage. In the video, Perry — who was wearing a maroon shirt with a maroon leather jacket and…
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty “If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”—Stokely Charmichael, aka Kwame Ture For years, activists, academics and general progressives have insisted that Black people…
Tyrese Gibson and his ex-wife, Samantha Lee Gibson, have been separated since December 2020, when the R&B singer publicly announced their split on Instagram. The couple, which wed in February 2017, recently went through a divorce, in which Gibson was ordered to pay $10,690 in monthly child support for their daughter, Soraya. Now that everyone has signed…
Cathy Hughes attends the 2022 Black Music & Entertainment Walk Of Fame Induction Ceremony & Juneteenth Celebration at The Home Depot Backyard on June 18, 2022, in Atlanta. | Source: Derek White / Getty One thing about it, Black women are doing IT, and doing it well. And “IT” really means any and everything. Black…
The Caddo Sheriff Department has arrested a Louisiana substitute teacher after she allegedly offered to pay multiple students money if they tackled one of their classmates. On Monday, Sept. 12, Aadrina Salean Smith, who was subbing for another full-time physical education instructor, was arrested for allegedly propositioning five students from the North Caddo Elementary Middle School…
Ashanti‘s recent post about “transparency” takes a turn after fans point out a slight mishap the singer failed to recognize before sharing the images. In the Instagram upload, Ashanti, who wore a colorful cutout dress with white heels, was seen posing on a rooftop as she stayed at the NoMo SoHo hotel in New York….
Source: Guy Cali / Getty The same legal system that falls all over itself to protect police officers who kill unarmed Black people from accountability seems to do the bare minimum, if anything at all, to protect sex trafficking and abuse victims who kill their abusers. We saw this with the case of Cyntoia Brown…
Dominique Merriweather, Ed.D., is Atlanta’s youngest Black principal in recent decades, overseeing a school with 1,500 students. The story behind the HBCU grad’s journey from what was intended to be a courtroom into the classroom is leaving many in his wake inspired by his ambition. The 30-year-old Merriweather is an Atlanta native who graduated from…
