As the new school year approaches, one institution is expected to make history (again) by enrolling more students than any other historically Black college or university. While the student body has swelled past any other year in its 100-plus-year history, the university is not just accepting all applications. The average freshman entering the fall 2022…
Aurora James speaks onstage at the 2022 Inaugural Fifteen Percent Pledge Benefit Gala earlier this spring Source: Astrid Stawiarz / Getty Fashion is often used as a means for artistic expression, and the Fifteen Percent Pledge is advancing its efforts to ensure the voices and creativity of diverse artists are amplified. The nonprofit has teamed…
Grammy Award-winning rap star Kanye West will not face charges for allegedly punching a man during a confrontation outside a nightclub in downtown Los Angeles, California, earlier this year, dodging what could’ve been a six-month jail stay. Per TMZ, which first broke the story, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, the Los Angeles City Attorney revealed…
Source: Douglas P. DeFelice / Getty The game of basketball has a global impact, and NBA player Mohamed Bamba is using the sport as a source of empowerment for youth in Africa. The Harlem native helped create basketball courts at SOS Village Abobo-Gare in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The project was led through the Orlando Magic…
Tensions are growing between Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis’ office over a federal probe into former President Donald Trump’s interference in the 2020 presidential election, according to court documents obtained by Atlanta Black Star. Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade, left, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, right. (Photos: YouTube/ 11…
Kimora Lee Simmons made headlines on Aug. 24 after the Baby Phat founder revealed during a recent interview with “Entertainment Tonight” that she’d been approached numerous times by “Housewives” producers about joining the series. The 47-year-old disclosed that she turned down the offers for years because of how production edited the show’s cast members in the final…
Althea Gibson, U.S. and Wimbledon tennis champion, with female students at Tennis Clinic, Midwood High School in Brooklyn Source: Universal History Archive / Getty Trailblazing tennis luminary Althea Gibson’s historic strides in sports have empowered generations of Black athletes to boldly bring their excellence into spaces where they are often underrepresented and rise to the…
The University of Pennsylvania plans to rebury some of the nearly 900 skulls obtained by a racist professor who pushed a theory that Black people are inferior to the white race. Samuel George Morton secured crania from nearly every continent during the 19th century for his collection that has been housed at Penn Museum since…
Source: Keyur Khamar / Getty Legendary golfer Tiger Woods is elevating the game through a new venture that sits at the intersection of sports and tech. According to People, Woods is launching a league in collaboration with the PGA TOUR. Dubbed TGL, the league will intertwine live-action golf matches with advanced tech features, including a…
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. waved to supporters during the “March on Washington” on Aug. 28, 1963. | Source: – / Getty UPDATED: 11:00 a.m. Aug. 28, 2022 — The importance of the calendar date August 28 in the context of Black history in the United States gets underscored on an annual basis….
