Whether it’s through his artistry on-screen or his philanthropic efforts, award-winning actor Denzel Washington has used his platform to evoke transformative change in the lives of others. One of the social good initiatives he’s leading with his family is centered on empowering HBCU students. Wiley College recently announced its debate team received a $100,000 endowment…
Source: Bill Clark / Getty Rep. Cori Bush woke up Saturday morning with a message to her Congressional colleagues, come back to work so we can prevent mass evictions. The Missouri representative led a group who slept outside on the Capitol steps Friday night to call attention to the House recess ahead of the CDC moratorium’s…
The events mark the 10th deadly shooting in the affluent, predominantly Black county in 10 days A series of shootings Friday night and Saturday morning in Prince George’s County, Maryland left at least four people dead and two critically injured, police say. Officers arrived in the 1900 block of Village Green Drive just before 11…
Decades ago, Henrietta Lacks’ cells, unbeknownst to her, were taken and used for medical research, a they still are to this day. Now her family wants pharmaceutical companies to pay up if they’re going to continue, and they’ve hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump to ensure it happens. In a statement to the Baltimore Sun…
Keisha Knight Pulliam’s daughter is starting to look just like her, according to fans. Those fans who got a look at mommy and daughter through three photos from a mini photo shoot — which was covered by one of Pulliam’s brothers — are starting to believe her daughter, Ella Grace Hartwell, gets all her looks from mommy! In…
The show is loosely based on the book of the same title and follows an affluent African-American family A new Black drama series is heading to Fox this fall with Lee Daniels at the helm. Deadline reports that Our Kind Of People is set to premiere on Sep. 21 with Yaya DaCosta at the center…
Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Friday that mandates go into effect immediately On Friday, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced new mandates in the city that people wear face masks and all city employees get vaccinated amid a new surge in COVID cases, CNN reports. In addition to the mask order, she urged in a press…
Elaine Thompson-Herah did what up until now was the impossible. The Jamaican sprinter established a new Olympic record in Tokyo on Saturday, July 31. She took home the gold medal in the women’s 100 meters with a time of 10.61, shaving one hundredth of a second off Florence Griffith Joyner’s previous record of 10.61 from…
The delta variant and breakthrough infections have made weary parents cautious in some instances, but adamant against mask-wearing in others HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With U.S. health officials recommending that children mask up in school this fall, parents and policy makers across the nation have been plunged anew into a debate over whether face coverings…
The gymnast will not participate in the first of the individual event finals but holds out some hope she’ll compete Simone Biles is opting not to defend her Olympic vault title, pulling out of Sunday’s event finals for both vault and uneven bars while she focuses on her mental health. The 24-year-old six-time Olympic medalist…
