Source: ELIJAH NOUVELAGE / Getty The official U.S. food insecurity rate rose to 13.5% in 2023 from 12.8% in 2022, according to data the U.S. Department of Agriculture released on Sept. 4, 2024. That means more than 1 in 8 Americans – about 47 million people – couldn’t get enough food for themselves or their…
Singer/songwriter Sade performs at the MGM Grand Garden Arena September 3, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Sade will join Andre 3000, Moses Sumney and more on “Transa,” an upcoming compilation album promoting transgender awareness and advocacy. It’s been six years since the world has been treated to new music from…
Rich Homie Quan attends the arrivals at VH1’s Hip Hop Honors at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on Monday, July 11, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File) Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died at an Atlanta hospital, and the cause of death was not immediately available, with an…
Mason Schermerhorn | Source: Artisea Bethea/GoFundMe A steady stream of donations to the tune of six figures and counting will help to support the grieving family of the lone Black person killed in this week’s school shooting in Georgia. An online crowdfunding account set up for the family of Mason Schermerhorn — one of the…
A man faces hate crime charges after allegedly launching a racially-motivated attack in San Francisco against a Black chef who starred in a Netflix limited series. Wendy Drew, a chef who founded and appears in the series “You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment,” recounted to multiple news outlets the harrowing moments when she…
Few can dispute that Hulk Hugan is a legend when it comes to American wrestling. Since his meteoric rise in the ’80s taking the torch from Andre the Giant, he carried the former World Wrestling Federation on his back until it became the $6.8 billion enterprise of its new iteration, World Wrestling Entertainment. Hogan, whose…
Actor Marlon Wayans is the youngest brother of one of Hollywood’s most talented families. But he says his eldest brother Keenen Ivory Wayans was a “star maker,” shaping careers, not only within their family but many of today’s A-listers. Beyond elevating the careers of his four siblings on the hit show “In Living Color,” Keenen…
Colt Gray, Apalachee High School shooting suspect. | Source: Barrow County Sheriff’s Office In what is likely the latest evidence of a glaring lack of diversity in the media industry, at least two news outlets misidentified the suspect in Wednesday’s deadly mass shooting in Georgia as a Black student who was shot dead instead of…
Chrissy Teigen is sick of her husband John Legend and his social media shenanigans. The “Ordinary People” singer participated in a new social media trend with one of their four kids, where users act out a particular moment — which is also written out in a description on the video — before turning to look…
A social video showing a mother instructing her adopted child from Africa to put a bag of rice on her head because it’s “in her blood” drew backlash over the mother’s cultural education methods. The video was posted on Instagram and YouTube Shorts by Kaylee Wilson. In it, Wilson directs her young adopted daughter to…
