The Grammy winner was honored in the city of his birth along with his late mother, Donda, who taught at an HBCU. Kanye West unveiled his 10th studio album, Donda during a listening party Thursday night at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. After the event, Ye was honored by the city with a Kanye West…
“I used to tell everybody in prison I’m innocent,” Grant Williams said. Grant Williams spent 23 years in prison serving a life sentence for a murder he did not commit. On Thursday, he was officially cleared of the crime after a judge vacated the conviction. The murder of Shdell Lewis occurred on Good Friday in…
“Being hit on and harassed as a woman, especially as a woman reporter out in the field, happens so often you learn how to roll with it or ignore it. This time it happened to be recorded only seconds before my hit,” Brianna Hamblin wrote. A Black female reporter offered a glimpse of the harassment…
A Colorado woman says that the airline racially profiled her while traveling with her adopted sibling A Colorado woman alleges that employees from Frontier Airlines racially profiled her and falsely accused her of sex trafficking after a passenger on a flight expressed concerns about her traveling with her sister. According to reports, Tuesday, when Lakeyjanay…
A Hillsong church member contracted the virus after skepticism about its impact and the vaccine Tributes are pouring in on social media for Stephen Harmon, a 34-year-old congregant of Hillsong Church who died of COVID-19 after he posted jokes about the pandemic. Harmon, a graduate of Hillsong College, died Wednesday after a month-long bout with…
Singer LeToya Luckett is officially a single woman now that her divorce from ex-husband Tommicus Walker is finalized. The “Torn” songstress confirmed her new status while chatting with fans during a July 18 IG live. Luckett — who was accompanied by friends Toya Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Monyetta Shaw and Pretty Vee for a ‘mommy vacation’…
Vaccinations are up but there are variants circulating that threaten to make a complete pandemic recovery challenging Just when people were beginning to wrap their heads around the delta variant of COVID-19, this week, Texas’ hospital system has become the first to report a case of the lambda variant. According to ABC News, Monday, Houston…
“Love and Marriage: Huntsville” star Melody Holt is stepping into a new season of life as a newly single woman and booked and busy mompreneur. As the breakout star of the show, fans witnessed her journey as she and then-husband Martell Holt formed businesses together while also experiencing ups and downs in their marriage. After…
A New York man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after threatening to kill a federal judge over his handling of the criminal case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Frank Caporusso, 52, was arrested in August 2020 and admitted to leaving a death threat on the office voicemail of Judge…
Zimbabwe is making history at this year’s Olympics. Teenager Donata Katai will be the African country’s first Black swimmer to be sent to the international athletic competition. Donata Katai becomes the first Zimbabwean swimmer to make the Olympics. HM Sport/ Screenshot With 99 percent of its population consisting of Black people, it’s a wonder why…
