[Notes to myself: 1. $45 billion number is real; it comes from the Biden administration’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan proposal that was issued March 31. (His plan also will invest $40 billion in upgrading research infrastructure in laboratories across the country, including brick-and-mortar facilities and computing capabilities and networks. These funds would be allocated…
Tiwa Savage performs during the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 at FNB Stadium on December 2, 2018, in Johannesburg, South Africa. | Source: Jemal Countess / Getty A star Afrobeat singer has announced that someone claiming to have a sex tape of her and her boyfriend is trying to extort her for an undisclosed amount…
Tamar Braxton has more to say about her comments regarding her family’s reality TV series “Braxton Family Values” making a possible return and her making a comeback to television as well. TMZ ran into the “Let Me Know” singer at the Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, Oct. 7, and the singer opened up about…
Leakes thanked all the “gentlemen” interested in dating her, saying, “I’m just over here doing me right now, but hey!” Reality show veteran NeNe Leakes is offering some insight into her life since the recent death of her husband, real estate entrepreneur Gregg Leakes. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the 53-year-old actress and reality star…
Inmates at Stateville Correctional Center in Chicago are getting a state-of-the-art music studio, thanks to activist and rapper Common. The Chicago native used his influence and resources to create a productive program for incarcerated people to express themselves creatively, reports TV station WBBM-TV CBS-Chicago. The three-time Grammy winner will offer inmates guidance and inspiration to…
Without evidence, the former president also claims that dozens of countries are sending newly released prisoners to America Former President Donald Trump leaned in to familiar racist language in an interview with his friend Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday night. The former president, who is reportedly considering another run for office in 2024, offered…
Source: boonchai wedmakawand / Getty James Daniel Edwards IV was arrested and charged with cyberstalking after he created fake fraternity party invitations that said “No blacks.” Edwards made the social posts seem like they were coming from East Carolina University’s Theta Chi chapter, but the fraternity has denied that any of its members were involved….
Source: Courtesy of MDOC / MDOC The success of “BMF” on STARZ has led to plenty of questions about the subjects, Terry “Southwest T” Flenory and his brother, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory. It isn’t much of a spoiler alert to recall the figureheads of the Black Mafia Family were sentenced to decades in federal prison…
Sage Steele moderates the Women in Leadership panel at the espnW Summit held at Resort at Pelican Hill on October 1, 2018, in Newport Beach, California. | Source: Meg Oliphant / Getty The writing has been on the wall for a long time, but many of us have only recently begun to read it after…
Producer Dr. Dre may be going through a rough patch after having his ongoing divorce proceedings splattered across headlines, but a man in Texas just had what he described as the worst day “as a school principal” after allegedly comparing students, mainly Black, to the award-winning rapper. The comment sparked outrage among parents who found…
