Expressing gratitude for support, the family has “arranged the Jacqueline Avant Memorial Fund for the new MLK Children’s Center in Watts,” per her wishes. The son of recently slain Los Angeles philanthropist Jacqueline Avant and music industry icon Clarence Avant released a statement on behalf of the family to Instagram late Tuesday evening. Alexander Avant…
“Attending a HBCU changed my life because it gave me an entirely new trajectory and really a different element of Black excellence for me to witness and see” Lauren F. Grove, co-founder of HBCU SpringComing and owner & sole proprietor of The Grant Access, LLC, expresses gratitude for her alum mater, Florida A&M University. “FAMU…
Source: Michael Reaves / Getty Rich Paul might be the most influential person in all of sports outside of Lebron James and he can’t dunk to save his life. The mega-millionaire sports agent and his company KLUTCH Sports Group have taken the sports world by storm. Paul, who is a childhood friend of Lebron James,…
Drake is facing a bizarre billion-dollar legal issue after a woman who was arrested for trespassing on his property nearly five years ago, slapped the Grammy-award-winning artist with a $4 billion defamation lawsuit. According to legal documents obtained by gossip website Radar Online, in a suit filed in June, Mesha Collins accused the “Way 2…
In the latest instance that police reform is sorely needed in this country, cops in Alabama said they arrested a Black woman simply because she was “burning incense” and “doing loud chanting” during a Christmas parade held in public last week. Kimberly Griggs suggested she had simply caught the holy spirit at the event, but…
A white man has been charged with assault and he and his mother are accused of racially profiling after an interaction lead to an altercation with a Black man who was working at a Tennessee parking garage. Johnny Martinez, who identified himself as Black in the video he recorded of the encounter, was checking cars…
50 Cent is paying it forward by helping the youth jump-start careers as thriving entrepreneurs. The rapper-entrepreneur launched his G Unity Business Lab this fall in partnership with the Houston Independent School District and Horizon Unity Group. On Dec. 5 he shared that 66 students from the inaugural class of 75 had secured jobs. 50…
Apryl Jones is out with the old and in with the new … man, that is. The “Love and Hip Hop” star was seen getting out of a vehicle with Taye Diggs and accompanying him to Jennifer Klein’s Christmas party. In photos and videos obtained by The Hollywood Fix, Diggs is seen extending his hand…
Source: sorbetto / Getty Continuing the fight against racist disinformation and digital equity, the Disinfo Defense League released a new policy platform demanding Congressional action reigning in Big Tech. Media Justice, Free Press Action, and the New Georgia Project were among the close to three dozen organizations that signed onto a new policy platform Tuesday afternoon. Acknowledging the disruption of organizing…
Back in the 1960s, 50 Black families were forcibly displaced from their homes in an area of Athens, Georgia, known as Linnentown. The descendants of those families are now seeking reparations and want to testify before Congress. “All hope was lost with the family separation, loss of property, and loss of community,” Hattie Thomas Whitehead,…
