Thermo Fischer reportedly made over $30 billion in revenue in 2020. Biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific has requested that the lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose cells have been used for research for decades, be dismissed, according to CBS-affliliated WJZ. The original lawsuit filed against Thermo Fisher was submitted in…
Albany High School student-athletes were booted from practice for wearing sports bras instead of shirts, which led to immediate activism. The girls’ track and field team at Albany High School in upstate New York received a suspension after they launched a petition calling out gender dress code bias. Several members of the Falcons were asked…
One of the most iconic pieces of Black art has fetched an eight-figure auction bid. The work, made popular by a 1970s hit sitcom, was sold for 76 times more than the seller’s estimated value. The Sugar Shack” by Ernie Barnes, from 1976. Credit: Christie’s Images Ltd. According to the New York Times, on Thursday,…
Criminal justice major Jada Sayles welcomed a baby boy and a diploma at a New Orleans hospital. After four years at Dillard University in New Orleans, Jada Sayles was ready to walk across the stage and receive her diploma when life took a slight detour. “I thought I was gonna walk across the stage to…
Sean “Diddy” Combs is not ready for his daughters to start dating. The media mogul and father of six talked about his teenage daughters during his 18th appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Wednesday, May 18. Chance, 16, and twins D’Lila Star and Jessie James, 15, accompanied their hip-hop dad to the Billboard Music Awards…
A factory shut down to investigate the deaths of children who used its formula may return to production soon The head of the Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers Thursday that a shuttered baby formula factory could be up and running as soon as next week, though he sidestepped questions about whether his agency should…
After being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars, it’s a good chance Chris Rock may emcee next year’s event. The world was shocked when Smith walked on stage and slapped Rock across the face during the televised show that aired on Saturday, March 27. The assault was a result of Rock making a…
Source: Scott Olson / Getty Imagine you’re a 911 dispatcher and you get an emergency call, but the caller is whispering so you get frustrated and hang up on them. And then BOOM, that call turned out to be the worst white supremacist mass shooting in America since Dylann Roof. Would you even be able…
The iconic Manhattan skyscraper hosts a pop-up shop and will light up red and white this weekend, celebrating what would have been the late Brooklyn rapper’s 50th birthday. May 21 marks what would have been the 50th birthday of The Notorious B.I.G. In recognition of the late Brooklyn rap superstar, New York’s Empire State Building…
This is the first baby for both the superstar singer/entrepreneur and the hit-making Harlem rapper. Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are now parents! The billionaire superstar singer/entrepreneur reportedly gave birth to a baby boy. This is the first child for the couple. The birth took place in Los Angeles on May 13, according to TMZ. The…
