When it comes to stepping into the boxing ring, former heavyset champion Mike Tyson is game for an exhibition match. But when it comes to his kids showing interest in the violent sport his enthusiasm is the complete opposite. Tyson has seven children, four daughters and three sons, and of them one has expressed hid…
Team USA had a players-only meeting after the opening loss to France at these games, vowed to figure things out and never lost again Nothing about the summer was easy for the U.S. men’s basketball team, and neither was the gold-medal game. The Americans expected nothing less. And in the end, their Olympic reign lives…
The stand-up comic is using laughter to cope with the loss of his 21-year-old son Cerain BAker, who was killed in a car crash on Tuesday near Los Angels Fans of comedian Tony Baker have showered him with messages of love and condolences since his 21-year-old son, Cerain Anthony Raekwon Baker, died in a car…
Source: Alex Wong / Getty On the same day voting rights groups commemorated the 56th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, news broke that some Georgia voters would receive a no-contact notice. WXGA News in middle Georgia reported the notices were the last step before officials label a voter inactive. The outlet reported Georgia Secretary of State…
Felix now holds the most track medals of any U.S. athlete after Team USA wins relay in runaway fashion Allyson Felix won her 11th career Olympic medal Saturday, combining with her American teammates to finish the 4×400-meter relay in 3 minutes, 16.85 seconds for a runaway victory. The team of Felix, Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad…
Great contemporary fiction helps us process current events and see beyond our own experience. No reading list is complete without great contemporary fiction. Versatile and multifaceted, novels set in the present day deliver escape, insight, and a window onto the world. They help us process current events and see beyond our own experience. In this,…
Black identity is complex and transcends borders. Our reading lists should too. Black identity is complex and transcends borders. Our reading lists should too. Like their authors, these stories represent cultures and perspectives from all over the Black diaspora: the United Kingdom, West Africa, the Caribbean and more. We should always be reading broadly, but…
Great Black authored hIstorical fiction provides invaluable entree and insight For African Americans, historical fiction can be tricky. This nation’s past has long been treacherous territory. So some presume the literature bourne of it must necessarily be nothing but pain. While I understand the hesitation, I’m particularly partial to historical fiction. Some of the best…
Source: Stephanie Keith / Getty Accused of multiple accounts of sexual harassment, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is doubling down. Days after an independent investigation corroborated evidence supporting the allegations, Cuomo’s attorneys tried to throw shade at the attorney general’s office. During a press conference Friday afternoon, Cuomo’s attorneys accused the New York attorney general and her…
Ms. Lauryn Hill is unbothered by how bothered her fans are about her tardiness. Following the releases of her albums with her group The Fugees, Hill dropped her masterpiece album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” While the album received several Grammy nominations and earned her the reputation of a well-celebrated R&B artist, it is still…
