Fred Hickman. | Source: LinkedIn Fred Hickman, a longtime and award-winning sports broadcaster whose decades-long career at a number of notable media outlets includes helping to pioneer an NBA news TV show that has since become a top-rated program, has died, according to reports. He was 66 years old. Hickman’s death on Wednesday was reported…
As Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s release date slowly approaches, the cast have completed various promo interviews in preparation for the awaited film. One of the most recent interviews was with Letitia Wright for Variety Magazine. Wright, who portrays King T’Challa’s younger sister Shuri, discussed a very traumatic event that occurred on set which not only…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The “red wave” that everyone predicted didn’t happen. Candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump didn’t fare too well during yesterday’s midterm elections. Mehmet Oz, the famed doctor turned Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee lost in a close race to Democrat John Fetterman. Georgia Senate candidate and former Football star…
Although Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels have been divorced since September of this year, the drama between the pair’s legal agreement recently unfolded during “Love & Hip Hop: ATL.” In the Nov. 7 episode, Mena, who married the rapper in 2019, was seen celebrating, after being told by a person who appears to be her attorney that her divorce from her…
Source: Maskot / Getty Safety for Black students in college is an ongoing battle. The incident that transpired at the University of Kentucky over the weekend shows that the commitment to safety for Black students on college campuses across the country needs to be prioritized. Since Kentucky freshman Kylah Spring was physically, verbally, and racially…
A South Carolina high school honored one of its students after he was fatally hit by a truck while walking to school. Officials at the campus arranged a vigil to celebrate the life of the ninth grader who was a “well-mannered young man” who excelled in the arts. On Wednesday, Nov. 2, Ja’Quan Rico Cortez,…
Source: GIORGIO VIERA / Getty On Tuesday night, Florida Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost made history after he became the first member of Generation Z to be elected to Congress. According to the Associated Press, 25-year-old Frost won his race for Florida’s District 10 with a sweeping vote, pulling in 59% of the vote from…
Earlier this year, “Basketball Wives” star Shaunie Henderson went through a few changes in her life. The 47-year-old married Pastor Keion Henderson in May in a lavish ceremony in Anguilla. Shortly following her wedding, Shaunie would officially drop the last name O’Neal that she’d kept after her divorce from Shaquille O’Neal. Shaunie reveals that she…
Source: Jessica McGowan / Getty First, let’s get one fact out of the way: It’s hard AF to get a Black person elected as governor in this country. On Tuesday, Wes Moore made history by becoming the very first Black person to be elected as governor of Maryland. But the statistic that’s even more telling…
A former Kansas City, Missouri, police detective who fatally shot a Black man as he was backing into his driveway in 2019 has filed an appeal to his conviction. Eric DeValkenaere is the first white law enforcement officer in Kansas City to be charged and convicted for killing a Black person in over eight decades….
