Innovator will.i.am is furthering his efforts to use tech education as a vessel to empower youth. He has teamed up with the Los Angeles Unified School District for the creation of a robotics program for children in underserved communities. The initiative is being led by the i.am Angel Foundation; an organization founded by will.i.am 12…
Songstress Ciara is on a mission to empower Black women to take charge of their health. The Grammy award-winning star is leading a campaign that was launched to spread awareness about cervical cancer and its disproportionate impact on African American women. The campaign—dubbed “Cerving Confidence”—is a collaborative effort being led by Ciara, the Black Women’s…
The 42nd annual Detroit Jazz Festival will be headlined by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Herbie Hancock, and more The world’s largest free jazz festival is back and in person. After moving to a virtual format in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the beloved Labor Day weekend tradition returns to downtown Detroit. The event is set to…
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith took to Instagram to share their excitement Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk, has won its first Daytime Emmy award in the “Outstanding Informative Talk Show” category. Will Smith took to Instagram to post a video of Pinkett Smith dancing with her mother, Adrienne Norris, and…
She compared Chauvin’s sentence to that of her godson, who is serving 20 years in prison for marijuana possession Roughly two months after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd, Judge Peter Cahill announced Friday that the former Minneapolis police officer will be sentenced to 22 and a half years in…
A Florida mother has hired legal representation after she said her son was racially profiled by a state trooper while visiting his girlfriend. The occurrence was caught on a home surveillance camera. The incident reportedly took place on Wednesday, June 16, in Fort Myers when Jack Rodeman, who is biracial, was walking to his girlfriend’s…
Shai Moss may get her dancing skills from her mom, Joie Chavis, but her father, Bow Wow, has been credited with giving her her looks. On Sunday, June 20, Chavis uploaded another mommy-daughter dance video. The two recreated a viral TikTok video from TikTok user Kyle You Made That’s remix of @cheerlebridee’s “Poof Be Gone”…
“This is not about me, this is about every other journalist across the globe,” said Zambian news presenter Kalimina Kabinda Live on air, a TV journalist in Zambia accused his network employer of neglecting to pay him and his colleagues their wages. Roughly two minutes into a routine news broadcast on Zambia’s KBN TV on…
“America’s not perfect. We have that original sin from slavery. But we’ve made progress,” said Ron Johnson U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Saturday that America is making progress on racism but liberals feel it’s not good enough and they want to impose their agenda on everyone else. Johnson made the remarks at the state Republican…
Police officials quietly commissioned a study late last year into the role the crash could have played in Ronald Greene’s 2019 death More than a year and a half after Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video brutalizing Black motorist Ronald Greene during his fatal arrest, police brass were still trying to blame his…
