Check out these four steps for improving your credit and gaining financial stability When I was a second semester freshman at the University of Pittsburgh, I was your typical “broke” college student. I had less than $100 in my bank account and a majority of my undergraduate college education was funded with student loans. I…
OPINION: The United States is in fact complicit in many of the issues that have been occurring in Haiti. U.S. Border Patrol’s treatment of Haitian migrants only scratches the surface. Like a scene out a Django Unchained, a white slave catcher, excuse me, border agent herded immigrants like chattel under the boiling hot heat of…
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are reportedly doing fine after a fire broke out in their California home on Monday, Sept. 20. According to Page Six, Smith and Pinkett Smith were the only ones reported to be in the Calabasas residence when fire trucks and an ambulance arrived to the scene, roughly at 3:30…
OPINION: With the success of Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy,” fans and publications are starting to ask if he’s reached the level of the late King of Pop. For the last few decades, scores of music lovers have been clamoring to anoint the next Michael Jackson. Usher, Justin Timberlake, The Weeknd, Chris Brown, Beyoncé and Bruno…
Sen. Cory Booker said there was no “meaningful progress,” when it came to police reform talks The bipartisan push for federal police reform in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder has collapsed in Congress. Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Tim Scott, Rep. Karen Bass, and other lawmakers have been working together to form a consensus that…
“We’re raising money because I have to pay for this all out of pocket,” Lexis Jones Mason explained. The wife of late comedian Anthony “AJ” Johnson is speaking out about the “fake love” the family is receiving in wake of his death earlier this month. Lexis Jones Mason poured her heart out to TMZ about…
Rapper Ice Cube’s career was launched with him rapping “F—k the Police” alongside his often scrutinized N.W.A. group members in the late ‘080s. From there, the Crenshaw emcee became known for his no-holds-barred lyrics and his signature scowl that made him appear to be nothing remotely close to mainstream America’s friend. Couple his tough demeanor…
An Illinois professor was charged on Sunday, Sept. 19 with aggravated assault and a hate crime after he allegedly hurled racial slurs at at a Black woman and her 7-year-old daughter outside of a Chicago grocery store earlier this month. Alberto Friedmann, a 53-year-old professor at National University of Health Sciences, confronted the woman and…
Source: Bettmann / Getty The United States’ relationship with Haiti is far from democratic. To understand it, you have to take a look at the history. In the late 1800s Haiti, like so many other lands inhabited by black and brown people, was under constant threat from western world invasion. France, Germany, and the U.S….
Gabrielle Union disclosed in a Tuesday, Sept. 21, interview with Essence magazine that her present-day self wouldn’t have remained in a relationship with her husband Dwyane Wade after he had a child during their 2013 separation. The couple, which wasn’t married at the time, was split up for a few months when Wade fathered a…
