Tammy Rivera asserted in an Oct. 25 social media post that she was racially profiled while shopping at CVS. Rivera claimed that the employee followed her throughout the store as she picked up a few items including a hair wrap and hair oil. Although the reality star didn’t disclose her exact location in the Instagram…
“Is Florida really committed to diversity in this industry?” Dr. Latresia Wilson asks when thinking of the state’s health department singling out Florida’s Black farmers making it harder for them to participate in the state’s lucrative marijuana industry. On Oct. 13, the Florida Department of Health issued an emergency rule 64ER21-16 about its Medical Marijuana…
The wife of rapper Waka Flocka Flame shared a series of videos in which she alleges she was racially profiled in Atlanta. Tammy Rivera, one of the stars of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, shared a series of videos in which she alleges an employee at an Atlanta-area CVS followed her throughout the store, racially…
Moderna hasn’t yet gotten the go-ahead to offer its vaccine to teens but is studying lower doses in younger children while it waits Moderna said Monday that a low dose of its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds, as the manufacturer joins its rival Pfizer in moving toward expanding…
Quiñónez, Ecuador’s world-champion medalist, was killed Friday night outside a shopping center in Guayaquil. Alex Quiñónez, a world-champion sprinter from Ecuador, was shot dead Friday night outside a shopping center in Guayaquil, according to a report from The Guardian. One other person was killed in the shooting that felled the 32-year-old bronze medalist. In this…
The medal is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors and past recipients include George Washington, the Wright Brothers, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Dalai Lama Minnesota’s Congressional delegation on Monday is introducing a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to pop superstar Prince, citing…
The actress and series creator shed light on the fifth and final season at the premiere party Insecure season 5 is finally here, and ahead of Sunday night’s premiere, Issa Rae reflected on the series and spoke to what she believes its legacy will be. From hilarious performances from strong supporting characters like Natasha Rothwell…
One of the children, a 15-year-old, called and told authorities that his 9-year-old brother had been dead for a year and the body was inside the apartment The skeletal remains of a child were found inside an apartment in the Houston area along with three surviving siblings who appear to have been abandoned, a sheriff…
The new YouTube Originals film highlights the many “sustainability challenges” Earth is undergoing, but it offers solutions. Former President Barack Obama gave a keynote address in a YouTube Originals film that premiered this weekend, and in it, he lauds the work of younger Americans in combating the crisis of climate change. In Dear Earth, a…
Prayers and condolences go out to the family of rapper Snoop Dogg who recently revealed his mother, Beverly Tate, passed away following a battle with an undisclosed medical issue after months of being hospitalized. Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., took to his Instagram over the weekend where he shared the tragic…
