Inmates at Stateville Correctional Center in Chicago are getting a state-of-the-art music studio, thanks to activist and rapper Common. The Chicago native used his influence and resources to create a productive program for incarcerated people to express themselves creatively, reports TV station WBBM-TV CBS-Chicago. The three-time Grammy winner will offer inmates guidance and inspiration to…
Without evidence, the former president also claims that dozens of countries are sending newly released prisoners to America Former President Donald Trump leaned in to familiar racist language in an interview with his friend Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday night. The former president, who is reportedly considering another run for office in 2024, offered…
Source: boonchai wedmakawand / Getty James Daniel Edwards IV was arrested and charged with cyberstalking after he created fake fraternity party invitations that said “No blacks.” Edwards made the social posts seem like they were coming from East Carolina University’s Theta Chi chapter, but the fraternity has denied that any of its members were involved….
Source: Courtesy of MDOC / MDOC The success of “BMF” on STARZ has led to plenty of questions about the subjects, Terry “Southwest T” Flenory and his brother, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory. It isn’t much of a spoiler alert to recall the figureheads of the Black Mafia Family were sentenced to decades in federal prison…
Sage Steele moderates the Women in Leadership panel at the espnW Summit held at Resort at Pelican Hill on October 1, 2018, in Newport Beach, California. | Source: Meg Oliphant / Getty The writing has been on the wall for a long time, but many of us have only recently begun to read it after…
Producer Dr. Dre may be going through a rough patch after having his ongoing divorce proceedings splattered across headlines, but a man in Texas just had what he described as the worst day “as a school principal” after allegedly comparing students, mainly Black, to the award-winning rapper. The comment sparked outrage among parents who found…
Grede, CEO of fashion juggernaut Good American, founded by Khloe Kardashian, will join guest sharks for the show’s 13th season The CEO of the fashion line, Good American, founded by Khloe Kardashian, and the founding partner of SKIMS — launched by her sister Kim — is set to become the first Black woman to be…
Vivica A. Fox took to Twitter on Oct. 5 to react to the massive backlash she received for her “snitching” comments regarding an alleged report on R. Kelly. Last week, the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer was found guilty of all nine charges by a New York jury in a federal sex trafficking trial….
Hundreds of people line up to attend a job fair on April 18, 2013, in New York City. | Source: John Moore / Getty The old saying that history is bound to repeat itself takes on a special meaning when it comes to Black unemployment, a damning metric that always seems to be the highest…
More and more professional athletes are publicly begrudging the current vaccination culture, and now even veteran sports entertainers are airing out their grievances. The former baddest man on the planet, “Iron” Mike Tyson, recently revealed he had taken the vaccination for COVID-19. However, in true Tyson style, the first undisputed champion had a lot to…
