Source: Kamil Krzaczynski / Getty Politics can oftentimes get downright dirty — at best, putting crooked politicians on blast, and at its worst just being disgustingly petty. In the case of now-ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, her historic run as the simultaneous first openly gay and first Black woman to serve the Windy City in that…
Source: Bettmann / Getty The United States Mint is continuing to use its coinage to celebrate the legacies of unsung heroines who have left their mark on American history. Amongst the latest collective of luminaries who will have their likenesses featured on a quarter is civil rights activist Pauli Murray. Take a look at the…
Source: Sean Zanni / Getty Keke Palmer is still adjusting to motherhood and as the new mom to a baby boy named Leodis Andrellton Jackson whom she gave birth to just last week, the actress recently took to Instagram to get real about the hardships of motherhood while sending support along the way. The 29-year-old…
Source: Leon Bennett/VMN19 / Getty Rapper-turned-actor and hunky sex symbol Method Man celebrated 52 years around the sun on Thursday. Meth has been influential in the rap game since the early 1990s, and the star remains a relevant force in the industry today. Whether he’s dominating onscreen in shows like Power Book and The Godfather of Harlem or lighting…
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty A good amount of those who’ve been following the rise, fall, rise, fall and — well, we’re not exactly sure where the status is at this point! — of former daytime TV maven Wendy Williams have probably given up hope in witnessing her long-awaited return. From podcast rumors to an…
Source: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty Issa Rae is taking her entrepreneurial endeavors to new heights. The creative visionary recently opened the fourth location for her community-driven collective of cafés Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen, Forbes reported. Issa Rae celebrated the opening of Hilltop Kitchen + Coffee, located on historic Hill Street in Downtown LA. #ESSENCE…
Source: Laurence Dutton / Getty From pioneering physicist George Alcorn to trailblazing engineer Camille Wardrop Alleyne, Howard University has a legacy of nurturing generations of STEM innovators. The Washington, D.C.-based historically Black university will be able to elevate and expand its efforts to empower budding mechanical engineers through a $1 million gift from Autodesk Inc….
Sisters Toni Braxton and Tamar Braxton were recording an Instagram Live video while singing the theme song from the children’s show “Reading Rainbow.” In the […]
1501 Certified Entertainment’s founder, Carl Crawford, recently admitted that he was wrong for the way he publicly conducted himself after his business relationship with Megan […]
Tennessee state congressman Paul Sherrell who asked his colleagues if a bill to extend how death row inmates are executed could include “hanging by a […]
