President Joe Biden unveiled the $1.75 trillion framework aimed to help bolster the middle class and provide new opportunities across the Black community. The Biden-Harris administration ran a campaign built upon sweeping appeals to working class Americans, especially Black voters. As the year forges on, the Build Back Better (BBB) Act Framework hopes to deliver…
McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, also appeared in court Monday. The three police officers and two paramedics charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain made their first court appearance Monday. Police officers Nathan Woodyard and Randy Roedema, former officer Jason Rosenblatt, and paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec all…
OPINION: As the Biden administration weighs paying immigrant families separated by Trump’s zero tolerance policy at the border, it begs the question if Black descendants of slavery will ever truly get reparations. The Biden administration is considering paying reparations — I mean, settlements — of as much as $400,000 per victim to immigrant families who…
Cardi B, City Girls, and more are among the artist included in the soundtrack for Halle Berry’s directorial debut. BRUISED, the forthcoming film starring Halle Berry, is getting a soundtrack and Warner Records is dropping the compilation on Nov. 19, as reported by Variety. The film, in which the Academy Award-winning actress portrays a disgraced…
The Collective PAC is the nation’s largest political action committee dedicated to increasing Black political representation across all levels of government The founders of The Collective PAC released a statement Tuesday announcing the organization’s support of 78 Black candidates running for office in local, state, and federal elections across the country. The Collective PAC is…
Tyrese Gibson is taking his fans on a trip down memory lane. The actor was in Los Angeles recently reminiscing with his fans about his 2001 movie “Baby Boy” which was filmed in the same city. In the film, there was a particular scene where Gibson’s character, Jodie, almost got shot by Rodney, who was…
President Joe Biden encourages patience from the public as vaccination sites prepare to welcome children. The White House has confirmed that they expect COVID-19 vaccination sites for children under 12 to be “up and running” by the week of Nov. 8. Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will be the first in the country available to the age…
A judge rejected Los Angeles County’s motion that the mother of four undergoes a mental health exam to prove emotional distress Vanessa Bryant will not be required to undergo a psychiatric test to prove she suffered emotional distress over leaked photos of her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna’s fatal helicopter crash. On Monday, a…
Former drug lord Alberto “Alpo” Martinez, who was portrayed in the classic crime drama “Paid in Full” and infamously testified against lower-level participants in his gang, was shot and killed in an apparent drive-by shooting in Harlem over the weekend. Now those who portrayed him and his affiliates are reflecting on illustrating their story on the…
Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey was also in a tough fight for a second term, facing a bevy of opponents who have attacked him for his leadership in the wake of Floyd’s death Voters in Minneapolis were deciding Tuesday whether to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety, more than a year after George…
