“Now the world will understand how big of a business the weather business is and how important it is,” Allen said. Media mogul and billionaire Byron Allen, the owner of theGrio’s parent company Entertainment Studios, says he welcomes the competition from fellow mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is set to debut the 24-hour streaming channel Fox Weather…
“People used to tell me my hair was ‘too big’ for the cap – never that the cap was too small for my hair,” Alice Dearing wrote. The International Swimming Federation (FINA) is considering reversing their decision to deny certification for swimming caps designed for natural Black hair following backlash. This comes after a Soul…
Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty UPDATED: 2:19 p.m. ET, July 6, 2021 — Tuesday marks five years since the world witnessed the infamous video of Philando Castile bleeding and taking his last breaths after he was shot by a police officer in Minnesota. The 32-year-old was shot by St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez less…
On Tuesday, June 29, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that would have provided a way for juveniles to have their records expunged after completing a behavioral program. The veto shocked lawmakers after the proposal, which supporters say would have removed barriers to housing, education and employment, moved through the legislature with little opposition….
Long Beach residents found the statue sprayed with white supremacist, Nazi-affiliated symbols Friday and called police. A statue of iconic civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was recently vandalized in Long Beach, California. Residents discovered the statue had been sprayed with white supremacist, Nazi-affiliated symbols on Friday afternoon and called local police,…
Fatima Johnson was found dead, wrapped in a blanket, with her hands tied behind her back and her mouth gagged. A well-known mother of six was found slain in her in South Los Angeles home, and police are looking for the attacker. Fatima Johnson was reported missing after she failed to show up at the…
Naturi Naughton called out her former 3LW bandmate Kiely Williams on Tuesday, July 6, after Williams seemingly exposed her role in the infamous KFC altercation between the two women by confirming she wanted to throw a “two piece” at the “Power” actress following her vouch for Phylicia Rashad. The former 3LW members’ fight occurred in the early 2000s during Naughton’s…
Naughton took to her Instagram stories to defend Rashad, writing that “we are all allowed to have different opinions” amid the backlash surrounding her comments Naturi Naughton is speaking out. In a recent Instagram post, the singer came to Phylicia Rashad‘s defense after her controversial post supporting Bill Cosby following his conviction was overturned last…
Maintaining an active career in the entertainment industry isn’t a smooth task, even though rapper Ice-T‘s tenure on the longest-running live-action show in history, “Law and Order: SVU,” makes it appear otherwise. Ice joined the hit drama series in 2000 as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola, right before the start of the show’s second season, and…
Lightning forced rescuers to pause their work for two hours and stiff winds of 20 mph hampered efforts to move heavy debris with cranes, officials said The discovery of four more victims in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium building raised the death toll to 32, officials said Tuesday as a ramped-up search effort…
