Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels aren’t the only “Love and Hip Hop” stars welcoming a new bundle of joy this summer! ATL rapper Lil Scrappy and his wife of nearly four years, Bambi Benson, now have their third child together. In a July 25 Instagram post, Lil Scrappy, born Darryl Kevin Richardson, posted three photos…
Mamie Till-Mobley has long been known as the Black mother whose 14 year-old son, Emmett Louis Till, was brutally tortured and killed in Mississippi during the Jim Crow Era. But now, the masses will know her as not only the “mother of the civil rights movement,” but just how far she pushed to make justice…
After footage of an officer tossing a plastic bag into a vehicle during a traffic stop went viral on social media, the Village of Caledonia Police Department in Wisconsin has released body camera footage of the stop. The police department released footage of the July 21 stop on July 24 after some social media users…
“Jeopardy!” fans are finally getting their chance to see LeVar Burton host the long-running trivia show. For a week, July 26 to 30, Burton will live out his dream, in part, by standing behind the podium once reigned by late host Alex Trebek. The opportunity is one Burton and his fans have been pushing —…
To date, 18 states in America, including the District of Columbia, have legalized the recreational use of cannabis. Another 13 and the U.S. Virgin Islands have decriminalized its usage, subsequently boosting the industry’s revenues. Now an organization in Illinois wants officials to reconsider reparations for ex-convicts who were jailed because of the now-legal substance. According to…
Shamari DeVoe recently disclosed in an interview with the Jasmine Brand the reason behind her abrupt departure from “Real Housewives of Atlanta” was solely because the show’s producers portrayed her as a “drunk” during her stint. DeVoe first appeared on the Atlanta housewives franchise in season 11 alongside Nene Leakes, Kandi Burruss, Cynthia Bailey, Porsha Williams, and Eva…
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the first House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, many questions remain about who formed and possibly financed the attack. One of the most poignant stories to come out out of the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 is from Texas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, essentially the crux of…
Kevin Hart has passed up on taking a trip to space. A couple of days after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and business honcho Richard Branson took their suborbital flight to the edge of space, Hart has revealed he too was offered the opportunity to go on the flight but decided to pass due to the…
Civil rights crusader Bob Moses, who was an architect of the 1964 Freedom Summer voting rights campaign and established a program to help minority students succeed in math, has died at the age of 86. NAACP president Derrick Johnson shared news of Moses’ death in a statement on July 25, writing, “Throughout his life, Bob…
The billionaire NBA star and the former U.S. president often traded jabs during Trump’s time in office. Donald Trump took aim at LeBron James during a rambling two-hour speech at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona over the weekend. Speaking to a crowd of loyalists at the “Rally to Protect Our Elections” on Saturday night, Trump speculated…
