Dior shared on social media that she had been ill with symptoms the day she was scheduled to perform at the three-day event. Rapper Dess Dior confirmed that she tested positive for coronavirus just days after performing at the Rolling Loud Festival in Miami, Florida, where at least 80,000 people were in attendance. The open-air…
Matthew Kinne, who was married at the time, is accused of shooting Dominique Clayton after she told him she may be pregnant with his child A former police officer in Lafayette County, Mississippi will plead guilty to the 2019 murder of his reported former lover. Matthew Kinne, who was married at the time, was involved…
Black landmarks will now have a chance at preserving their legacies with the help of a generous contribution from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, an initiative of the National Trust for Historic Preservation launched in November 2017. According to a recent press release, the Action Fund revealed it would support preservation projects totaling $3…
EXCLUSIVE: Multimillionaire political donor Edward Buck was found guilty on nine counts involving the crystal meth overdose deaths of Moore and Timothy Dean On the four-year anniversary of Gemmel Moore’s death, a Los Angeles jury unanimously voted to convict Edward Buck as being responsible for his death. Moore was found dead in Buck’s home following…
OPINION: Black women like Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams should never feel guilty for putting their mental health first. I wish a non-somersaulting somebody would part their mediocre lips to say anything negative about Simone Biles withdrawing from the Olympics. I mean anything. Cuz me and Simone’s Twitter aunties got time. (Her play cousins…
Former “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Falynn Guobadia announced her divorce was final from her estranged husband Simon Guobadia in a huge way digitally on Monday, July 26, by sharing an Instagram story alongside a popped champagne bottle emoji. Falynn and Simon revealed they were splitting up by uploading the news on their respective Instagram pages earlier this year. The…
Former President Barack Obama’s investment in Basketball Africa will be used to support youth and leadership programming for the Obama Foundation across the continent. Former President Barack Obama has hit another milestone. America’s beloved first commander-in-chief has become a strategic partner and minority owner in the National Basketball Association (NBA)’s African league — Basketball Africa. …
After two young people in California were arrested for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter mural, Santa Cruz Police Chief Andrew Mills took a hard stance against their actions and would not dismiss the offense as childish behavior. “This wasn’t just a couple kids fooling around doing a burnout on the street, this was an intentional…
Due to the complexity of hate violence, certain statutes meant to protect racial minorities and marginalized groups are less effective, as a consequence of bias in the criminal justice system More than half a century since they were modernized, hate crime laws in the U.S. are inconsistent and provide incomplete methods for addressing bias-motivated violence,…
The entrepreneur known as “Pharma Bro” once boasted that he paid $2 million in 2015 at auction for “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” the 31-track album An unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album forfeited by Martin Shkreli after his securities fraud conviction was sold Tuesday for an undisclosed sum, though prosecutors say it was enough to…
