Sandra “Pepa” Denton from legendary rap group Salt-N-Pepa has been slapped with a lien worth nearly $700,000 for her alleged unpaid surgery fees by Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. David Sayah on July 30. A lien is a claim that is made on an item, usually one’s property, to satisfy an unsettled debt.  This initial claim comes almost a year following…

The rapper is on the cover of the latest issue of Out Magazine and opened up about his performance as well as the unique pressures of being an openly gay rapper in Hip Hop Lil Nas X stunned the world with his epic performance of “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” at the 2021 BET…

Brenton Rockey of Rockey’s Truck and Trailer Repair reportedly encountered Erika Harris and objected to her car’s signage. A California driver was captured on video harassing a Black woman with a “Black Lives Matter” flag on her vehicle. Brenton Rockey drove off shouting, “All lives matter, b**ch.” Several social media users identified the man as the…

Business is good for Fox’s hit drama series “9-1-1.” So good that its cast is getting a raise which will reportedly make one of the program’s lead stars the highest-paid Black actress on a network television show.  According to Deadline, veteran actress Angela Bassett, who plays Athena Grant on the NAACP Image Award-winning show, often spoke…

Detroit police are investigating after a video surfaced of an officer punching a Black man in the face on Sunday morning. Interim Detroit Police Chief James Craig expressed concerns about the video, which was filmed in Greektown and surfaced on Reddit over the weekend. Detroit police are investigating after a video surfaced of an officer punching a Black…

Valerie Junius was planning to leave Lawrence Reed, who has since been charged with her July 29 murder in Katy. A Katy, Texas mother was killed last week allegedly at the hands of her husband, who authorities say fatally shot her and opened fire on two of her children.  Valerie Junius was planning to leave…

OPINION: Most members of Congress are still overwhelmingly white, male and wealthy — women of color like Congresswoman Bush are changing that mold We’ve all come to know ‘The Squad‘ which consists of four elected members of Congress who also happen to be very progressive women of color: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep….

Russell and Ciara Wilson’s youngest child, Win Wilson, is walking! The Seattle Seahawks quarterback shared the exciting news on his Instagram page with his followers. On Aug. 4, Wilson uploaded three photos, one with Ciara, Win, another hidden figure that may be his daughter, Sienna, and himself sitting on the practice field. Russell Wilson tells…

“I know what it’s like to be evicted and have to live out of my car with my two babies,” Bush said. “As long as I am a sitting U.S. congressperson, I will not keep my mouth shut about it.” Roughly two decades before she was elected to Congress, Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri lived…

Countless students around the nation are breathing a sigh of relief — with many of them starting life post-college less burdened by debt. That’s thanks to news from the U.S. Department of Education, which announced in April that between the Cares Act and the American Rescue Plan, Historically Black Colleges and Universities would receive $5 billion…