Fantasia Barrino is days away from completing her role of Celie in the musical adaptation of “The Color Purple” when she shared the pleasant surprise she received on set for her 38th birthday. In the Instagram post shared on June 30, Barrino disclosed that her close friend and gospel singer Le’Andria Johnson sang happy birthday to…
“It’s a good idea to keep in the minds of folks the way things used to be and the way they are now,” said retired First Sgt. William McDowell. Major renovation to restore and rebuild several key buildings once used by America’s first Black Marines at a racially segregated base known as Montford Point in…
Source: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / Getty Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia for over four months, but it doesn’t seem as though she will be returning to the U.S. anytime soon. The WNBA star recently penned a letter to President Joe Biden from a Russian jail, expressing her fears about the possibility that she may…
Actor Denzel Washington was named as one of the 17 people who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden. The White House announced the recipients on July 1. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor in the nation. The honors list includes honorees from entertainment, politics, sports, the…
Nationwide events celebrate the country’s official independence from France after a brutal seven-year war that ended 132 years of colonial rule. ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria is celebrating 60 years of independence from France on Tuesday with nationwide ceremonies, a pardon of 14,000 prisoners and its first military parade in years. The events mark the…
The mayor of Akron, Ohio, declares a state of emergency after bodycam footage, showing the city’s police officers fatally shooting an unarmed Black man, is released. The videos show the young man was shot and sustained 60 bullet wounds as he ran from the cops last month. Jayland Walker, 25, is the third person killed…
Brittney Griner’s appeal said she feared she might never return home and asked Biden to not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.” Brittney Griner has made an appeal to President Joe Biden in a letter passed to the White House through her representatives saying she feared she might never return home and asking…
Willie Jerome Manning remains in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, convicted in 1994 on two counts of capital murder. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a death row inmate will not be allowed to seek additional DNA testing on crime scene evidence from the shooting deaths of two college…
Torrei Hart is enjoying the perks of her ex-husband Kevin Hart’s successful career. Torrei and Hart wed in 2003, but by 2011 a tumultuous separation led to their divorce being finalized. “I’m not ashamed to say it, guys. I got married at the age of 22. I was still all over the place,” he told…
Relatives and other inmate advocates said the 2020 law’s reversal cruelly upended plans for reunions and homecomings. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Christopher Ford was a baby when his father was sentenced to 28 years in prison for participating in a murder-for-hire scheme that led to the killings of two people at a car dealership. After…
