The SportsCenter anchor has sued the network and its parent, Walt Disney Co., for what she calls “selective enforcement” of a rule. Sage Steele, an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN, is suing her network and its parent company, Walt Disney Co., for what she calls “selective enforcement” of a rule established in 2017 forbidding employees…
After President Joe Biden granted clemency to 75 individuals convicted of low-level drug offenses, rapper Killer Mike says the nation’s top executive should go even further to rectify incarcerating people for crimes that are now legal. He suggested one way to do this is to “quadruple” the number of people he sets free and to…
Source: Robert Alexander / Getty U.S. Supreme Court justices this week expressed sympathy for a white high school football coach who was fired from his job for kneeling and praying on the field following games, drawing a stark contrast to the country’s collective reaction to Colin Kaepernick‘s controversial kneeling protest before NFL games. While not…
Prince Edward has been slammed for his response to calls for reparations during his leg of the royal family’s Caribbean tour. The Earl of Wessex carried on the tour started by Prince Charles last month. Like his nephew’s trip, Edward’s visits to Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda were met…
After a two-year hiatus, music mogul and heralded Hip-Hop producer Pharrell Williams is bringing back his “Something in the Water” music festival, moving it from its original location in Virginia Beach and setting up shop in the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., on Juneteenth weekend, from June 17 to 19. The artist’s team made the…
People walk past the John Harvard statue at Harvard University’s main campus on December 19, 2000, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Source: Darren McCollester / Getty Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country could begin an intriguing partnership with one of the most renowned universities in the world. Harvard University announced this week its…
New York state and the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are accusing MoneyGram International Inc. of harming customers by delaying international money transfers, failing to disclose prices as well as not informing users when the funds would arrive. In this photo illustration, MoneyGram International, Inc. logo is seen displayed on a smartphone and a pc…
Tami Roman’s daughter and aspiring artist Jazz Anderson isn’t pleased with how rising rapper Coi Leray addressed her mother earlier this week after the former reality star weighed in on the reignited feud between the “Twinnem” musician’s dad, Benzino, and television boss 50 Cent. Freestyling to Coi’s latest single “Blick Blick” featuring industry veteran Nicki…
Both Confederate Memorial Day and Confederate Heritage Month are celebrated in April in Mississippi On a day that many state and local government offices were closed for Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi, protesters on Monday said the state needs to stop commemorating the Confederacy. Several members of Indivisible Northeast Mississippi held signs denouncing the holiday…
A new documentary film about the police standoff that led to the death of Korryn Gaines is in the works. Gaines died at the hands of the Baltimore County Police Department after she was shot to death inside her apartment on Aug. 1, 2016, near Baltimore in Randallstown, Maryland. The film will be directed…
