A recent lawsuit alleges that police went out of their way to protect an elite white varsity player The police department in Warren, Michigan is being sued by a former high school football player over its handling of a 2019 hazing scandal. Cleveland Harville, 20, who attended Warren De La Salle High School, is one…
The Houston rapper was removed from the 2022 lineup following the Astroworld Festival tragedy in November. Things have looked bleak for Travis Scott over the past few months. Following the tragedy of the Astroworld Festival, the Houston rapper was removed from several festival lineups, including the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Despite the…
Legendary actress Jenifer Lewis celebrated her 65th birthday on Jan. 25 by showcasing her flexibility skills. In the video, Lewis, who wore an all-black outfit with red sneakers, is seen in what appears to be her backyard commemorating her special day by singing a song while doing high kicks in between each phrase. Jenifer Lewis shares a…
In 2019 a new tea room and tea shop in Brooklyn, New York, created a local buzz for its imported teas. Having been opened in the predominantly Black Bedford-Stuyvesant area in December 2108 by Jamila McGill and Alfonso Wright, Brooklyn Tea seemed destined for success. Brooklyn Tea serves more than 60 tea varieties, delicious pastries. They also offer…
The former ‘Empire’ actor faces a maximum of three years in prison for staging a fake hate crime in 2019. A date has been set for Jussie Smollett’s sentencing. On March 10, the actor/singer will find out his punishment after being convicted of staging a fake hate crime on himself, per CNN. Smollett, best known…
“I felt like I had to have the long hair and look like my character,” LisaRaye said. Actress LisaRaye McCoy said that she suffered from an “identity crisis” after playing the stripper Diamond in the 1998 film The Players Club. “I had an identity crisis after ‘Players Club’ because I felt like I had to…
The first all-female, all-Black Caribbean team to row across the Atlantic hopes to make history again in a new rowing challenge Team Antigua Island Girls rowed their way into the history books when they became the first all-female Caribbean team to complete the grueling Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, and the first all-Black team to row across the…
Owens’ family told reporters that he died in his sleep on Saturday following a period of declining health. Massachusetts’ first Black state senator Bill Owens died over the weekend at the age of 84, according to NBC Boston. He was 84. The political pioneer’s family told the station that he died in his sleep on…
Ivory Aquino recently appeared in ‘Tales of the City’ and ‘When We Rise’ Batgirl, the highly anticipated superhero film based on the character of the same name, just made a major casting announcement. The film will feature the first openly trans character to ever appear in a DC Comics film, with Ivory Aquino joining as…
A viral social media challenge today has users showing off their bands of money or lack thereof. And, for the past week, artists and entertainers including Yung Miami of City Girls, Lil Durk, Tami Roman, 50 Cent, Soulja Boy, and more have shared photos of themselves lying next to words spelled out in cash. Their…
