EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited residents during a five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas that highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by industrial pollution Michael Coleman’s house is the last one standing on his tiny street, squeezed between a sprawling oil refinery that keeps him up at night and a massive grain elevator that…
The Shumpert family is now posing prettily in SKIMS, the shapewear and underwear brand owned by Kim Kardashian West. The Shumpert family is the new face of SKIMS, the shapewear and underwear brand owned by Kim Kardashian West. Teyana Taylor, husband Iman Shumpert and their two daughters, Iman Tayla Jr., who’s known as Junie, and…
A Michigan teacher is giving back to a once illustrious Black community and helping her students learn valuable life lessons at the same time. Former Detroit high school teacher Maria Lawton Adams visited the community of Idlewild in 2020 and was devastated by what she saw. The 1,300 acres of land was established in 1912…
The U.N. health agency cited a total of 241 million cases of the disease in 2020, up 14 million from the year before, and 627,000 deaths The World Health Organization said Monday that the global response to the longtime threat of malaria has taken a hit as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted health services in many…
The 28-year-old Black man’s kin and at least five neighbors dispute the shooter’s account that King was trying to break into his home. The family of a 28-year-old Black man shot and killed by his white neighbor is speaking out about what they deem to be questionable circumstances surrounding his death. Justin King lived across…
Source: ALEX EDELMAN / Getty It’s almost 2022 and there are still apparently plenty of white people who lose it at the mere sight of the words “Black lives matter.” At this point, I refuse to believe they still fear that “Black lives matter” means “only” Black lives. Nah, we’ve wasted far too much of…
Yandy Smith-Harris‘ dancing video of her husband Mendecees Harris and her foster daughter Infinity Gilyard caused a frenzy on social media on Dec. 5. The reason behind the uproar can be traced back to the trio’s intense public disagreement on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” months before. That particular incident first aired on the reality show in…
The 12-time Grammy winner’s residency, “Love in Las Vegas,” will kick off April at Planet Hollywood. John Legend will headline a Las Vegas residency this spring. The Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood will host “Love In Las Vegas,” which is promoted by Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment. Fans will be treated to a “beautiful, soulful…
On Monday, testimony began with the defense calling a security guard who was working in the area where the alleged attack occurred in January 2019 After two brothers spent hours telling a jury how Jussie Smollett paid them to carry out a fake racist and anti-gay attack on him in downtown Chicago, the big question…
The record producer reportedly wants a monthly payment from Evans, and requests that the court not allow her to collect anything from him. In yet another turn of events in the ongoing divorce drama between singer-songwriter Faith Evans and third husband Steve “Stevie J” Jordan, the producer is petitioning his soon-to-be ex-wife for a monthly…
