Video footage of an unlicensed security guard shooting and killing an unarmed Black man at a local Kroger gas station in Memphis, Tennessee, in August was shown in court this week after a judge made a ruling last month temporarily blocking the public’s access to it. According to a local ABC news affiliate, after a…
At the Legacy Museum, visitors explore the origins of the slave trade through the civil rights area to modern criminal justice issues The statues of chained men, women and children stick hauntingly out of sand as simulated waves crash overhead, a symbol to the estimated two million people for whom the slave trade ended in…
No students were hurt in the incident at YES Prep Southwest Secondary in Houston A former student of a Houston public charter school shot and wounded the campus principal Friday before quickly surrendering to police, authorities said. The 25-year-old man shot through a locked, glass door at YES Prep Southwest Secondary, Houston Police Chief Troy…
School districts urged not to spend state funding on enforcing mask mandates Two days after a federal judge decided that South Carolina’s ban on school mask requirements discriminates against medically fragile students, the state Supreme Court disagreed, in a ruling that won’t change the week’s events. Federal law trumps state law, so the U.S. District Court ruling allowing school…
American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue to require employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue are joining United Airlines in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, as the Biden administration steps up pressure on major U.S. carriers to require the shots. The airlines provide special flights, cargo hauling and other…
Songstress Ciara and her husband NFL player Russell Wilson are furthering their efforts to uplift youth and for their latest project their using literature as a source of empowerment. The couple recently announced they’re releasing a children’s book that illustrates the beauty of following your dreams, People reported. Ciara and Russell Wilson Want to Inspire…
Source: Jay L. Clendenin / Getty A legal battle to give proper ownership back to the descendants of a formerly Black-owned beachfront in California has been going on since earlier this summer, and thankfully Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will return rights back to the living heirs of Willa and Charles Bruce. With…
By now Tameka Foster has heard and seen it all when it comes to snide comments made by her ex-husband Usher’s fans. But one she can’t seem to shake is the belief that she wed the R&B heartthrob in 2007 to get at his fortune. “The truth is, I really, really loved my husband,” Foster…
Bryan Wheels was the only Black member of the Skils’kin contract crew at F.E. Warren Air Force Base A Black civilian grounds-keeping and kitchen worker at a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming was retaliated against and ultimately fired for complaining when other workers called him racial epithets, a lawsuit said. A supervisor told Bryan…
Entertainment mogul Nick Cannon has used his platform to amplify the importance of ownership and financial freedom and he’s putting the focus on empowering students at historically Black colleges and universities to take charge of their futures. According to The News & Observer, the television host unveiled a student debt cancellation initiative for HBCU scholars….
