EXCLUSIVE: While Black unemployment rate has dropped alongside the national rate, joblessness for the community remains disproportionately high. There is celebration over President Joe Biden’s job creation efforts as the administration has set a year one record of 6.6 million jobs. In addition to the strong jobs numbers, the unemployment rate for Black Americans has…
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s split has been anything but amicable since the “Keeping Up with the Kardashian” star filed for divorce on Feb. 19, 2021. The 41-year-old reality star has since requested joint legal and physical custody of their four children. However, their co-parenting journey is experiencing a turbulent start. In a since-deleted post…
In partnership with Afrofuturist scholars and over 70 organizations, the iconic concert hall will produce a citywide, over-80 event festival from February through April. As the saying goes, you can’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been. But while February is the annual month America reflects on the innumerable contributions and achievements…
Las Vegas detectives say video footage shows Kamara, 26, punching a man who ended up in the hospital NFL running back Alvin Kamara was arrested on suspicion of battery resulting in substantial bodily harm just hours after playing for the NFC in the Pro Bowl on Sunday in Las Vegas. According to a report from ESPN,…
Gibson’s mother Priscilla Murray is in the ICU, the singer/actor shared with fans in a series of posts on Instagram on Sunday. Tyrese Gibson is asking for prayer warriors as his mother has been hospitalized with COVID-19 and pneumonia. Gibson’s mother, Priscilla Murray, is being treated in the ICU, he shared with fans in a…
Clips of Rogan using the N-word on his podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience,’ resurfaced on social media. As many celebrities have disapproved of Joe Rogan and his podcast, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson publicly showed his support. That is, until revelations that Rogan used the N-word on his show in the past. Rogan was being taken…
An early home of civil rights leader Malcolm X has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site in Inkster, Michigan, serves as the home for Malcolm X after he was released from prison, and is where he started to formulate his religious walk in the Nation of Islam and met the…
J.Dow Fitness and Jolie Noire are part of Target’s “Black Beyond Measure” campaign. In less than five years, three women turned their love and concern for Black women into highly celebrated business ventures. Now, they are in Target stores nationwide for Black History Month. Photos: Target As a research scientist with a background in public…
‘I am thrilled to officially announce that I have joined [CNN] as a political commentator’ Bottoms tweeted Monday morning. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be joining CNN’s lineup of political commentators in the near future, according to her Twitter account. “I am thrilled to officially announce that I have joined @CNN as a…
Tiffany Haddish‘s decision to partake in an Instagram Valentine’s Day filter on Feb. 7 takes an unexpected turn after fans mention her ex, Common. Haddish and Common, who met on the set of 2019’s “The Kitchen,” reportedly split in November 2021 after dating for over a year. Sources allegedly close to the former couple claimed that busy…
