Source: Will Sterling / Courtesy This week, Urban One announced that Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer, Oscar-nominated actress and legendary Queen of Hip Hop Soul Mary J. Blige will be recognized as the prestigious Entertainment Icon Honoree at the 6th annual ‘Urban One Honors.’ The two-hour ‘Urban One Honors: Best in Black’ event premieres during…
Newly released body camera footage shows the moments a Mississippi police officer shot an 11-year-old unarmed boy in his own home. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations finally released the video after months of demands from Aderrien Murry’s family to make it available for public viewing. Officer Greg Capers (right) will not face charges in the…
American civil rights campaigner, and widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (1927 – 2006) stands behind a podium covered in microphones at Peace-In-Vietnam Rally, Central Park, New York, April 27, 1968. | Source: Hulton Archive / Getty Coretta Scott King‘s youngest daughter took to social media to clear up any potential…
Michelle Obama is acutely aware that her relationship with former President Barack Obama appears picture-perfect on the surface, but the reality is that she knows marriage is two things: hard and requires a commitment to work on it. That message dispelling the illusion of having an ideal union is one Michelle has been candidly tackling…
The mother of an 11-year-old who was killed in a school shooting in Perry, Iowa, remembers the boy as a friendly child who exuded happiness. Ahmir Jolliff, nicknamed “Smiley, is said to be the victim who got killed by a gunman who fired shots inside Perry High School on Thursday morning The Associated Press reported. The child…
Source: Frazao Studio Latino / Getty Water has often been a symbol of freedom, tranquility and recreation. However, for Black communities, water is connected to a troubled history of barriers, stemming from systemic racism, exclusion and limited access to pools and swimming education. According to a 2017 study conducted by the USA Swimming Foundation,…
Rickey Smiley says “nobody on earth is going to break” him in his response to narratives claiming he cried during a Facebook Live because of Katt Williams’ tirade against him and other comedians. The radio show host cleared up speculation that bullying from his comedic peer, critics, and his Omega Phi Phi Franternity brothers on…
An Ohio high school teacher has been hospitalized after a student, who was acting “distraught,” attacked her last week, resulting in a serious brain injury. The incident happened inside a classroom at Colerain High School on Thursday, Jan. 4. An unidentified 16-year-old was taken into custody and charged with felonious assault, local police said. Just after…
Source: Wirestock / Getty Residents of Harvey, Illinois are distraught after a Black man says he was boarded up and locked inside his Chicago suburban apartment without him knowing. According to AP, 73-year-old Rudolph Williams claims his door and windows were boarded up in his apartment while he was still in it. “I didn’t know…
Steve Harvey has seemingly been catching strays online ever since fellow comedian Katt Williams slammed him and other comics during an interview on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast on Jan. 3. Fans have pulled clips of Mark Curry previously accusing Harvey of stealing his Halloween joke after Williams claimed his “Kings of Comedy” co-star Cedric…
