A makeshift memorial has been erected at the playground where Simone-Monea Rogers was shot a block from her home. A teenage girl was shot and killed on a Philadelphia playground just one week after her 15th birthday. Simone-Monea Rogers was playing basketball with her brother and two friends at the Jerome Brown Playground in Philly’s…
Source: David S. Holloway / Getty The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia announced Friday that a Marion man will be spending the next 18 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to burning a cross in the front yard of a Black family’s home the day after a civil rights…
In the “ABOUT LOVE” campaign, Beyoncé models the iconic Tiffany Yellow Diamond, only the fourth person to wear it. The Carters broke the internet again late Sunday night when new photos from their 2021 “ABOUT LOVE” campaign for Tiffany & Co were released. The new photos show the power couple in several poses. In one,…
Everything that glitters ain’t gold. Just a few days ago, Tyrese Gibson was on his Instagram page showing himself a little self-love by saying how he’s grown to love his dark complexion. Now Gibson is back on the social media site, and keeping it real with fans about the “issues” that come with having a…
Source: KEREM YUCEL / Getty It’s been one year since Jacob Blake was shot seven times and paralyzed from the waist down by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer, sparking a new round of demonstrations in the sea of protests and uprisings against police violence that took place in 2020. The shooter, Kenosha Police Officer Rusten…
A report released by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) on Wednesday, Aug. 18, found the federal government targeted Black Lives Matter activists in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death last year in an effort to “disrupt and discourage Black organizing.” M4BL released the report in conjunction with the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR)…
Classically-trained vocalist Simone Ledward-Boseman performed the emotional song at “Stand Up To Cancer” on Saturday. The wife of late actor Chadwick Boseman paid an emotional tribute to her late husband during the broadcast of Stand Up to Cancer on Saturday night. Simone Ledward-Boseman, a classically-trained vocalist, performed the standard “I’ll Be Seeing You” in tribute…
Kandi Burruss is keeping it real when it comes to her surgeries, and she is encouraging other celebrities to do the same thing. The “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star and powerhouse entrepreneur is using her “Speak On It” YouTube series to give fans a personal look into her “Body Work” journey, specifically with her breast…
The vaccine now carries the strongest endorsement from the Food and Drug Administration, which has never before had so much evidence to judge a shot’s safety The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, a milestone that may help lift public confidence in the shots as the nation battles the most contagious…
Detective Everett Briscoe, a 13-year police veteran, had recently earned his bachelor’s degree from Southern University. A $10,000 reward is being offered for information about who shot and killed New Orleans Police Detective Everett Briscoe on Saturday afternoon at a restaurant in the Galleria area of Houston. Another person was also injured in the incident…
