Three-time NBA champion and Phoenix Suns center JaVale McGee and his mother, former USC All-American basketball player Pamela McGee, have made history as the first mother-son duo to both earn gold Olympic medals. Pamela, a retired WNBA player and two-time Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer, earned her gold as a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team…

For the past four years, Chicago has been the backdrop for Showtime’s hit series The Chi, and the network is paying it forward through the creation of a social good initiative that will empower Chicagoans who are embedded in the fabric of the city. According to the Chicago Defender, the television network recently donated $500,000…

The husband is now on a ventilator in New Orleans A family faced the harsh reality of traveling without being vaccinated after three members tested positive for COVID-19 before boarding their flight back to Louisiana. Yolanda Comager says that she and two of her daughters had to leave her husband David — who is now…

Marian Anderson’s career spanning 1924 to 1966 to be captured in a digitally remastered collection On a chilly Easter Sunday 82 years ago, a tall, elegant Black woman walked down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before an integrated crowd of 75,000 and sang her way into the history books. Marian Anderson performed for only…

A visitation for Cameron Burrell will be held on Sunday and his funeral service was set for Monday The death of former NCAA national champion sprinter Cameron Burrell has been ruled a suicide, a medical examiner’s office announced Friday. The University of Houston, where Burrell starred from 2013-2018, had said he died Monday. He was…

The new moratorium was announced this month and is set to expire Oct. 3 A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is expected to rule this week on whether a moratorium against evictions imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stand. The court late Saturday…

Tropical storm warnings were issued for the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and part of the Dominican Republic The National Hurricane Center said Fred regained its tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday as parts of the Caribbean were gearing up for impacts from Tropical Storm Grace. Fred was forecast to move across…

Don Cheadle took to Twitter on Aug. 13 to open up about his friendship with Kevin Hart following his viral interview on the comedian’s show “Hart to Heart.” Hart was receiving backlash earlier this week for bluntly responding the word “damn” after the actor disclosed his age while initially discussing generational wealth.  Cheadle reacted to a fan’s tweet that called…

The 18-year-old woman from Guinea now undergoing treatment for Ebola in Abidjan had arrived Thursday by bus A patient has tested positive for Ebola in Abidjan, a city of more than 4 million people, marking the first case of the disease in Ivory Coast in more than a quarter century, the World Health Organization said….

The Central Alabama Community Foundation has begun work under a $500,000 grant to renovate the church As the Alabama church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was elected to his first leadership position in the civil rights movement marks its 155th anniversary, work has begun to make a museum out of the crumbling building…