Lear is a TV legend, known for being behind hit series like ‘The Jeffersons’, ‘Good Times,’ and more Norman Lear is getting his flowers. The television icon will officially be honored with the Legend Award by the African American Film Critics Association. To say that Lear is television royalty would be an understatement. The man…
The state asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for five mortuary trailers in anticipation of an increase in deaths. As a surge of the delta variant of COVID-19 ravages the state of Texas, the state’s Department of Health Services has submitted a request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for five mortuary trailers in anticipation…
A small college in South Carolina just dropped some massive news on its students. Shortly after committing to cut tuition by nearly 50 percent, Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, announced that it would be offering all full-time students free education for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. Clinton College president Lester McCorn made the…
Source: skynesher / Getty Providing proper education for our youth should be a community effort regardless of where you call home, and a part of the process is making sure students feel welcome regardless of their race. One Atlanta mom wasn’t exactly feeling the love from a local elementary school after she discovered that Black…
Tyrese Gibson is loving the skin he’s in. The “Fast and Furious” actor posted a selfie-style video of him admiring himself while he vacationed on Monday, Aug. 16. Gibson panned the camera lens across his face, giving his fans a variety of angles to look at him. In the first Instagram story, he confessed that…
“I wanted to tell the story in a way that showed Aaliyah was dynamic outside of anyone she had worked with, outside of anything that we chose to define her by,” writer Kathy Iandoli says. Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah by music journalist and author Kathy Iandoli is officially out. With this biography, Iandoli…
With a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Boston’s Old North Church plans to overhaul its educational programming The great contradiction of Boston’s Old North Church is that a site pivotal to the freedom of the nation is the same place where slave owners and traders once worshiped. Now, with a $75,000…
After an Atlanta mother claimed her daughter’s elementary school engaged in classroom segregation based on race, other Black parents are now coming to the defense of the school’s Black principal. “I understand some people might feel differently, but all of the African-American parents I have spoken to are seeing this as a carriage of misjustice,”…
The Taliban have sought to portray themselves as more moderate than when they imposed a brutal rule in the late 1990s The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed a day after deadly chaos gripped the main airport…
An announcement on the U.S. booster recommendation was expected as soon as this week U.S. health experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the delta variant spreads across the…
